Written by kRemtronicz | 17 August 2009
Posted in Microsoft Windows

Tags: Computers | Microsoft Windows | Operating Systems

A few weeks ago we talked about why Windows XP rocks, Vista not-so-much, and why Windows 7 must be a "test-before-you-buy" operating system. We had the pleasure to get a copy with an official key from Microsoft to test the upcoming operating system.

So we went ahead and created a partition on one of our newest, fastest computers and began to install Microsoft latest in it. The first thing you will notice is the fancy looking new layout: unlike XP's blue-based installation theme, Windows 7 has a very nice, easy to understand, fancy look. Continuing with the installation, it went pretty fast as in less than 20 minutes we had Windows running in our 100GB partition. The finalization of the instllation process goes really smooth, and it really can be followed by most mortals. Then came the welcome message and in a matter of seconds we were ready to go with Windows 7... The look, feel, sounds, and most of it is very, very close to Vista besides the main tool bar which is definitely, and finally, a big improvement. The operating system seem indeed faster than XP and/or Vista--but what new installation isn't? What excited us is that in fact everything was working really smoothly. None of our hardware had any problems, even though it is all 2009. As far as the software, we did not have much time to mess around with it besides installing the latest Firefox, Avira antivirus, CCleaner, and a few of the players for both Internet Explorer and Firefox. All that went well. Another cool feature is that our 4GB of RAM was recognized instead of the usual 3 - 3.5 GB on XP. Good, good...

Finally, this is just a quick overview of our long Windows 7 test. We still need to install many other programs and run more tests to see how the OS behaves. We know, however, that many companies won't support it until its release, and we will not talk about problems with unsupported software in that case. Moreover, it is ALWAYS recommended to test, test, test, instead of just going for "the latest and greatest" and get a load of problems without asking for them.

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