Though I’ve already downloaded the supposed leaked version for over a week, I’ve only installed it today.
I’d already installed W7, the PDC version, build 6801, so I’m not euphoric. To be honest, and a bit against the mainstream W7 support I’m seeing, I continue to believe Vista is a great OS, and W7 is just riding the wave of Vista’s investments.
Sure there are a series of improvements, sure Microsoft finally heard the customers, sure W7 waists less RAM than Vista (over 25% less on this laptop, after an upgrade). But we have to keep in mind that W7 is just a minor release over the Vista revolution. And that probably the major reason of success of W7 are:
- better hardware (hey, over 2 years have passed by! most Vista unfriendly hardware is now gone)
- better drivers (the new driver model has been finally digested by hardware providers)
- time – only time will heal :)
Now that I got this out of my chest, I can finally say, like the rest of us: “gee, W7 is a cool OS!”. Can’t wait to get a final version on my laptop.
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