So we’ve been playing with the Windows 7 RC (Release Candidate) for a few months now and have been quite impressed with what we’ve seen, but a couple of weeks ago we received the *full, complete version* of Windows 7 from Microsoft as an Action Pack subscriber.
All I can say so far is ‘Wow’, and I mean that as a good wow, a great wow, a jumping up and down with glee wow.
Windows 7 is what Vista should have been, and then some. The interface is cleaner, the bells and whistles numerous, and the stability rock solid.
Jimmy has been running Windows 7 Ultimate 64 on his main desktop for a week now and swears he will never go back to XP or Vista – that’s saying a whole lot right there.
What has me so jazzed at the moment is that earlier this morning I decided to install Windows 7 on my little Acer One Netbook which is not a powerhouse of a system by any stretch. It has only 1GB of RAM and an Atom 1.6GHz processor. I wasn’t sure if Windows 7 would even do an initial load or not due to the system hardware specs.
The netbook doesn’t have a CD or DVD drive built in, so I hooked up an external DVD drive and booted to the Windows 7 installation DVD.
Flash forward 30 minutes and we’re done. Windows 7 is installed, NO drivers were needed. System has full video, audio, wired and wireless networking. I’ve also installed MS Office 2007 Enterprise and Malwarebytes Antimalware.
The system is faster now than it ever was running XP, which just blows me away. MS Word loads in under 4 seconds, Excel in about 3 seconds.
Call me a convert.
-Daniel Scurlock
Scurlock Systems and Associates LLC
scurlocksystems.com