Windows 7

Last week I was presented with a choice - I needed to get a new computer to replace one that had recently broken and I had a little over a thousand dollars to spend on it.  Windows 7 had just come out a few days prior and it was getting largely good reviews.  I had [...]

I recently started a  new job where we use Windows XP in a corporate environment; I have to say the change has been less than enjoyable.  At my previous job we worked with iMacs running 10.5 Leopard and I got quite used to the little time savers and shortcuts on the Mac that could allow [...]

The biggest problem I heard about Windows Vista was that it broke people’s old programs.  No one wanted to change their lives around by purchasing new printers, peripherals, or software to do the work that they had gotten done with few problems in XP.  Here comes Windows 7 and it has not promised any new [...]

Microsoft still has not released pricing details on Windows 7 but there have been a few clues as to what the prices might look like.  Best Buy had a leaked memo about Windows 7 pricing for an upcoming sale - the price for the upgrade version of Windows 7 Home was to be 49 dollars, [...]

The product breakdown for Microsoft Windows 7 was recently released and posted on the website WinSuperSite.com.  There was nothing really new about the number of versions that Microsoft will release, we always knew there would be a fair number.  What was interesting was the chart showing the various features of the different versions.  The Home Basic [...]

I saw a posting on Tom’s Hardware site where they had pulled a screenshot of the Windows 7 install options, showing 5 different versions.  There was a starter, home basic, home premium, business, and ultimate edition.  Clearly Microsoft did not learn anything from their last product release, when they introduced a similar number of products [...]

So far the Windows 7 beta is looking great, the taskbar is a huge improvement and the overall system performance is faster on similar hardware than Vista is.  It is shaping up to be quite a success for Microsoft, but there is one last thing that it really needs.  Windows 7, like Vista and like [...]

We know that there will be an enterprise version of 7 because Microsoft has said that there will be, but what we don’t know is how many other versions Microsoft will put out.  It is likely that they would like to avoid the criticisms that came with the massive number of versions that Vista came [...]

According to the system requirements, which many are touting as progress because they have not gone up over what Vista requires, in order to run Windows 7 you will have to have a 1Ghz processor, a gigabyte of RAM, and a 128MB graphics card just to run an operating system.  I had the idea that [...]

Microsoft recently announced that they would be taking on the Mac when it comes to user experience.  They intend to make Windows as easy to use and as stable as Mac OS X and bring back some of those users who have left Windows.  Is it doable?  In a word, No.  In many words, the [...]