Pleasantly surprised by Windows 7
I had a chance to beta test the upcoming release of Windows OS, version 7. I didn’t have any expectations for the Windows Vista successor; I have downgraded all my factory-installed Vista systems to Windows XP within 15 minutes 
… I was pleasantly surprised with what Microsoft had done this time though :O
With no expectations and in fact negative expectations, I didn’t want to destroy any of my trusted Windows XP systems . I had a 7 year old laptop (P4 and 1GB RAM) which I came with Windows XP and now serving as test machine for anything that came new (Fedora 10, Ubuntu 8.10, Open BSD among others). I decided to lose my Fedora 10 (it rocks btw) and risk with that Windows 7 will turn out to be.
The installation was very smooth. Very few questions being asked and the time it took was also reasonable given that the hardware is very old. When I rebooted for the first time after installation, I noticed that the startup time is very fast (< 20 secs ?). You should read this number taking my hardware into picture. Therefore, I would assume that it would be much faster in modern systems. Once I logged in I noticed that the system was much more smoother and more responsive that Windows Vistas. I would even say that on the same hardware, it was probably more responsive that the original OS, Windows XP.
I didn’t spend much time with the OS but in the quick 2 hours or so, I concluded that Windows 7 would be good product and worth a try. Let us wait and see. In the mean time, for more information click on Windows 7 .
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