Windows 7

The long awaited Windows 7 release day has come and gone. Will 7 be able to restore our trust in Microsoft? Will 7 be everything that Vista should have been and more? Well, we have all seen whether or not Windows 7 has lived up to expectations.

Early feedback showed that Windows 7 is amazing, faster than Vista (Just about anything is though). For all of those Windows enthusiasts, it really sounds like 7 will be the answer to your woes if you were stuck with Vista for the last few years. I can only hope that 7 lives up to all of the hype surrounding it. Speaking of hype, I wonder what happened to those poor souls trying to upgrade from Vista to Windows 7...

Apparently, for some users when they tried to upgrade from Vista to 7 they would end up in a cycle of endless reboots. To me that says lack of testing. Furthermore, I recently did a clean install from an upgrade disk over my Xp OS. I still question why on earth Microsoft did not give Xp users a way to upgrade rather than be forced to do a clean install. Granted, I would have done a clean install anyway simply because when people upgrade really weird stuff can happen and the computer could potentially get messed up.

So, really 7 has had the same damn problems that the other versions of Windows have had. Lack of testing translates to big problems for end users. However, I will say that 7 is very nice once it is installed. Currently I am running 7 professional and the only real upgrade I have to do is put in another gigabyte of RAM to make 2 GBs for my computer to run 7 well. To those of you that plan on upgrading, I recommend doing a clean install to bypass headaches that upgraders have run into.