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Well as someone who has been a Linux fan boy for the last few years, namely an Ubuntu fan boy. I am a little grieved that Microsoft has released a system that appears to be so much of what Vista should have been and never was. Microsoft also made the absolutely ingenious decision to have the RC beta tested for almost a year. On so many grounds this was a great idea. It means that when it is released properly, it will be in a place that Vista was in when it had is 1st service pack released. It is a much more stable system. People have kicked the tyres in and have gotten used to the new interface. More than likely people have gotten used to it enough so that they probably won’t want to go back. Vista suffered a lot from people telling others that it was no good so that others just avoided it without even trying it for themselves. Now that happened in that case to be fairly true, but so far, Windows 7 seems to be far better (I probably wouldn’t touch it on a netbook though). It makes Vista seem like it was alpha software in comparison. It gives time for drivers to get written and software to get tested although the driver architecture is the same as Vista. My laptop has never worked so well and can you hear that? That is the sound of, well nothing, because my fan is hardly working. Well done Microsoft! Being a bit of a self confessed techno slut, I don’t mind moving over. Yes I will feel a little remorseful, but I will be OK. Deep down I am really rooting for Ubuntu and the rest of the Linux community to rise up to this challenge. If I could put into one word what I have to say about my experience with the latest release of Microsoft’s operating system that word would be flourish.

Written by M Roberts, all rights reserved.