Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 2nd Nov 2009 23:59 UTC
Windows 7 has been out and about for little over a week now, and as it turns out, Microsoft's new baby is doing relatively well. That is, according to the figures by NetApplications: Windows 7 already reached the 3% mark this weekend, and is already closing in on the 4% mark.
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2006-01-10
I installed windows 7 last night... upgraded from vista.
Haven't had too much time to play with it, but the upgrade went flawless for me. Yes, your mileage will probably vary.
My only beef is they make you type in product key before your system is setup (I think you can change it after... but I didn't try that). I got the download version, so they sent me the key via email. It would have been more convenient if they prompted you for the product key once your system is setup or at the start when you launch the installer from within Vista, so you can just check the email right there. Rather than having to use a second laptop to access email, and write down the key...
Big change from vista? Not really. But I wasn't expecting much of a change. It is definitely more polished and the little things (new taskbar, HOME network...) are great.
The did a pretty good job on the UI for the control panel. It actually gets you where you need to go very quickly instead of hunting through dialogs. On every version of windows, I always have to turn on 'show file extensions, hidden files...". They have an explicit option in the Control panel for that.
I read in other reviews that the default wallpaper was bad... and yeah... what were they smoking. Who made this choice? There's a lot of great wallpapers that come installed by default. They chose the worst possible one.
I like it overall. The little things count.
Were it not for the more reasonably priced academic version, I probably would not have gotten it.