I just upgraded to Windows 7.
For all those out there who have been exactly like me for years, let me say, this is the best version of a Windows OS I have EVER encountered. Period. I have been running "7" now for about 24 hours and have yet to find a real flaw of any kind with the OS. Even with Windows 95 I would revert back to DOS rather often.
When installed, 7 looks like Vista, but behaves completely differently. All of the gimmicks and "ooh and ahh" type features in Vista have been replaced with an accessible, easy to navigate system that make more sense than anything else I have ever seen from Microsoft.
Now, for those of you who know me (or at least know about me and computers), I have wanted Microsoft to add its own version of a "dock" for years. (This is what Macs have). There was no reason why the wealthiest and most highly traded software company in the United States should make its primary operating system require three times as many steps to do anything (Start, Programs, Software vs. just clicking on commonly used applications). To satisfy devout Microsoft-ers the company has left the start menu, but in much better shape than it has been since it came out in Windows 4 (i.e. Windows 95). It now includes useful expanding menus, incorporates online activity (and you can use a third-party browser and still do this), and has re-incorporated words into every part of the menu. Dare I say, this might be better than Mac's best alternative: the multi-window finder. Despite how confusing the finder is, Apple has yet to update it or better-integrate it. The new "dock" taskbar also has a "stack"-like component that provides easy to view information with optional preview.
Some say this is the Vista that Vista was supposed to be. This clearly was made to fix Vista's problems, and while this does not excuse Microsoft from releasing such a horrible product. The results of Vista sure helped to make 7 better.
This issue now becomes: what does Mac do? My computer hasn't frozen, crashed, blue-screen-of-death'd, or anything similar yet. Vista took 15 minutes. XP took 25. Microsoft has outdone Apple...for perhaps the first time since Windows 4 (depends on who you ask).
Thus far, Apple Corp's only response has been to release a TV ad showing people switching, not from Vista to 7, but from Vista to a Mac. None of these people seem to have a reason. Apple definitely seems scared. Unlike the top-notch Mac ads over the past few years in which all of the people had PC problems, they seem to have none anymore, and want to pay an extra 1000 or so dollars for now explicit reason. If they want to keep up business, they better tell me more than "we have excellent customer service." Everyone knows that, and who needs customer service when your PC, running Windows 7, isn't having any problems?
Never thought I'd say that.
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