Should I upgrade to Windows 7?
September 2, 2009
On January 30, 2007 Windows Vista was released to the world. It was received by many as an unwelcome “upgrade” to windows XP due to driver problems, hardware/software incompatibility and numerous performance issues. For the past 2.5 years we’ve largely recommended to our customers that they stay with Windows XP if buying or upgrading a computer. There are exceptions of course, but in general Vista caused too many headaches for the majority of end-users we worked with.
In just over a month (October 22nd, 2009) the successor to Vista will be released, Windows 7. We’ve been using the release candidate (a “pre-release”) for several months and have recently been able to test the final release version. Windows 7 is what Vista should have been from the start. The driver and hardware compatibility issues that came with Vista seem to largely be a thing of the past. We’ve also found it to be faster and more responsive in almost every area, and with the addition of the XP Mode virtual machine, compatibility problems are largely non-existant.
We’re also huge fans of the new and improved Aero interface with features like Aero Peek and Aero Snap as well as the new and improved taskbar (similar in many ways to the Mac’s “dock”). For those of you with Media Center PCs, the new Media Center in Windows 7 is vastly superior to the Vista version (check out Engadget’s in-depth review on Win7 Media Center).
We here at Computer Rooter are excited about this release of Windows and are wholeheartedly recommending it to our clients. If you’re in the market for a new machine, we recommend you wait until the official release of Windows 7 next month (or buy a computer that comes with a free upgrade to the new operating system).
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