I don’t usually write about MS products, but this one deserves a few lines: Win7. I had been using (if you could call it that) Vista Ultimate in a Fusion virtual box for some time, and just upgraded to Win7 Ultimate by going through the upgrade process and not a fresh install.
To my huge surprise, almost everything worked without a hitch. The only major problem was with VMWare, and not Windows, as to upgrade you need to have about 12gig free in the virtual partition, and to expand that partition you can’t have any snapshots stored. So it took several hours to delete those and then resize/clean the partition, but after that, the install went smooth.
The only minor problem I had was that I had to do a repair install for MS Project 2007, not that I use it outside of teaching classes on it’s use. But all my other windows programs worked fine after the upgrade. I did loose my saved settings on the taskbar and start menu, but that’s not a biggie considering what
could have gone wrong.
Performance is notably zipper and the eye and ear candy is welcome...the Windows box now fits in better with my overall Snow Leopard user experience. My one PC game that I own, Men of Valor, runs much smoother on Win7 over Vista, and there are no longer any annoying nag screens...well, not as many as there was before.
I never say anything good about MS software, but this time I have to admit, Win7 appears to be a fine OS.
