Elvis-Virtus

After installing the Windows 7 to 5 pcs and a Mac Book, i can now finally review it. I have been using Windows 7 for almost 2 months now, and the thing i can say is that i'm really impress, i'm an awe with the OS and also singing praises to Microsoft for their recovery and giving us a pretty good OS after their debacle with the SHOULD BE FORGOTTEN Vista. I will keep this review very simple and not to go into detailed explanation ( Detailed review here), if i go to a very detailed review the page won't be enough. So Here We Go

The thing i liked about Windows 7 is how fast the response times are, ask something and it appears right before your eyes, like XP and unlike the 1-2 sec delay of Vista. I also like what they did with the taskbar, the old taskbar has been around for more than 15 years, and a change was imminent, gone are the......well all of it, the new taskbar is more like the DOCK that MAC OS X uses, its really similar (click here for comparison) Similar instances are stack to one icon and when you hover your mouse on top of that icon, a preview windows appears showing the real time situation of all instances. Another thing i like with Windows 7 is the AERO SNAP and AERO SHAKE ( see detailed review ) this is without a doubt my most used feature of Windows 7, i don't have time resizing windows and fitting them into my screen to my liking, so this is a great benefit. Another thing i liked is the changes with the theme, you can now create a background slideshow and also change the color of the aero theme. According to Windows 7, it already supports more than 7700 drivers via Windows Update, in fact, i had a harder time upgrading the newest machine like my laptop than older machines, in the older machines, you just install and that's it, all the driver problems will be solved with just one Windows update. The multimedia portion of the Windows 7 also had a lot of changes from the UI of paint and wordpard to the pre-installed codecs of Windows Media Player 12 and improvements to the Windows Media Home Center. Finally, the last thing i liked with this OS is how Microsoft was able to recode the start up, gone are the days when your OS tries to load everything in the same time *boot and start up programs, in Windows 7, the Boot is the priority then the start up programs via stack system so much faster boot time is established.

Now the negatives, It ain't a perfect OS, Can anybody tell me the difference between Home Premium, Professional and Ultimate without looking at the box, i know this is an marketing strategy of Microsoft to rake in more money *fooling people in getting the more expensive ultimate, but i'm telling you right now, people who are getting the Ultimate and not using its feature are stupid and gullible people, if you get the ultimate, you should be using the Multilingual languages that it comes with, or the XP mode or even the bitlocker, if not, i pity you because you have been tricked by Microsoft, you just wasted a lot of money or just wasted 20 gigs of your Hard Drive. Another thing i didn't like with the OS is that XP drivers won't work, if your device's driver is XP only, goodluck in making it work, the only driver that windows 7 recognizes are Vista and Win7 drivers, if it's not recognized, you should be buying a new device anyway, because your device is already too old and time to be retired. I also don't like that the Vista to Windows 7 upgrade is so expensive, they should copy Mac's strategy their upgrade from Leopard to Snow Leopard is only 30 dollars and why can't Microsoft give a break to all those consumers that they tricked with their Vista ( i still remember all those Vista horror stories) that they have to charge at least 129 dollars from Vista to Win7 upgrade and the worst thing about it, that it should be the same version as your Vista, so if you have Vista Home Premium you can only upgrade to Win7 Home Premium.

So as an conclusion, Windows 7 is a good OS, which is a MUST update from Vista and XP, you should already let these two OS retire, the only draw back with the Windows 7 is the price, that's it

Pros: Huge improvement from XP and Vista, Supports 7,700 drivers, Very fast and even Pentium 4 Machines had no trouble running it, Tons of Features

Cons: Marketing Issues with Microsoft, Very Expensive, Does not support XP Drivers

Rating: out of 5 stars

There are still 3 reviews that are still DRAFTS, hope to post all of it within this week

Peace out!