This is it, the day that has been hyped and watched for by the geeks and home computer users for the past 10 months. Windows 7 begins selling and appearing in new computers everywhere. Despite many people’s wishes, it isn’t a complete re-make that tossed out Vista and started over. Rather, they made a lot of background corrections and upgrades in an attempt to eliminate the problems that Vista had generated. But it’s enough of an improvement that untold hundreds of thousands of Windows platform users (like me) were waiting for it before making any purchases of new computers.
In my case, I have been waiting for it before buying a better laptop than I have now. You’ll recall that I put out a call for assistance a couple of months ago asking for your input on what brand laptop I should get, and I got a lot of valuable advice from several readers that helped me decide that I’ll probably give Dell a try with this one.
There have been hundreds of experts writing articles about the new Win 7 over the past week, and all of them that I’ve seen have given good, positive marks for the upgrade. But they all add that it’s not worth the price or headache of just buying the stand-alone OS to install over your existing platform. Not only is the price too high, but the installation can bring a real hassle. Putting in on a machine that has XP is just asking to be driven to suicide over the destructive installation that completely wipes your hard drive clean before it loads the new version.
The Washington Post’s tech. writer Ron Pegoraro has as good a review as any HERE. He lists the good and not-so-good features such as:
Another welcome shift comes at the far right end of the taskbar. Windows 7 sweeps the tray clear of meaningless icons left by third-party programs to show only such core system-status indicators as the volume control and a laptop’s battery gauge.
The Start menu, however, remains the same old mess ….
Bloomberg News summarizes the big, world-wide rollout in this video report:
It’s time to install Equipment Check 5.0 now, however. So let’s get started with that and I’ll go get the coffee going. See you in the day room.
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