I have been using Ubuntu as my main system for a few years now. I moved over from XP, I tried Vista now with Microsoft latest and greatest OS it’s time to see what they have to offer, it's time for a Windows 7 Review. I have heard some scary things like – ‘Oh, it’s just Vista with a new interface’. I find that very scary. Being a bit of a techno slut, I find it very difficult to really remain faithful anything that is not just genuinely better. I found the move from XP to Linux full time easy, as I was at the time going through my tinkering phase. Then as I didn’t want to tinker so much anymore, I discovered Ubuntu, oh wonder of wonders – all the control of Linux with most stuff already pre tinkered so I don’t have to. Mostly, stuff just worked. I tried to get comfortable with XP a few times since, but I just found XP unrewarding and insecure. I missed my virtual desktop bitterly. No Compiz, no, no, no I just didn’t get it anymore. With that in mind I gave Vista a solid chance. I was eager to see what the biggest tech company on the planet – the World leader – can pull out of the hat this time. I really wanted it to impress me, it didn’t. On my fairly powerful laptop with 3 gigs of RAM it ran OK, then after a couple of weeks, for no apparent reason slowed down to a crawl. I think it was due to Microsoft updates. MS Office Outlook then got itself infected with a virus that no virus killer was able to find. Not that I am particularly fond of Outlook, this along with the 3 weeks to copy or unzip a file meant that we had come to the end. There was just not enough of a cherry, I had none of these problems with Ubuntu, it found its way back onto my laptop like a long lost friend where stuff just worked without spending 3 days finding all the drivers and setting it up etc...

Windows 7 R C

The Windows 7 RC came out and I eagerly downloaded a copy set it to run in a virtual machine. To my surprise, it actually worked reasonably well even inside a virtual machine. This was a pleasant surprise. I could see that this needed further investigation.