When Windows 7 drops this Thursday, you can either spend many, many hours watching a progress bar, or you can boot into a clean, speedy system with that new-OS smell. Let’s get your system set up for a proper Windows 7 upgrade.
If you’re jumping into Windows 7 for the first time this Thursday, or soon after, you won’t find yourself facing an entirely new-looking, strange-acting Windows. Most of Windows 7’s features are refinements, tweaks, and speed-ups from Vista. Your Lifehacker editors have been using 7 ever since the Windows 7 Beta dropped in January, and we’ve found a few things worth noting and, in some cases, crowing about, like these 10 things to look forward to in Windows 7, or Windows 7’s underhyped features.
Considering that we know that 86% of you are upgrading to Windows 7, we thought it might be worth a little guidance for getting ready to do just that.
via Lifehacker.
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Again, we are being asked to spend money on something we know little or nothing about. Are we being asked to buy this product because it’s Microsoft or Windows or it’s better or faster or what? Why are there so many flavors of the same thing? How about removing 90% of the bloat and overhead so the computer can run almost as fast as the 12 MHz Everex I used back in the late 80’s? You would think that after the Windows ME fiasco, Microsoft would have learned something but no, along comes Vista. Now it’s let’s drop Vista and hit them with another release before they have a chance to recover. How about exchanging our old Vista CDs for Windows 7, or better still, for Windows XP? If I ran my business like Microsoft I wouldn’t have a business. Funny how over time people accept substandard as the norm. Works here just like it does in politics.
Marty