I agree with the writer of this article that Windows 7 will capture the business that brings home the bacon – The enterprise. (Not to be confused with the star ship) It is easy on the hardware, quicker and leaves XP in the dust for features. We will see that over the next 2 years it will be the dominant desktop, no doubt.
To help you ease in to it, PC World has added some tips and Gizmodo tells you how to make all your gadgets play nice together. (I.E IPhone)
A Whopper what? We love Windows 7 but what is this promoting? Perhaps it is a Japan thing.
Now that Windows 7 is upon us the general perception and my experience is that it is vastly superior to Windows XP and Vista. If you skipped Vista, you can’t upgrade direct to Windows 7. So if you want the benefits of Windows 7, how can you get there? You might say that you have lots of stuff you cannot lose. Well did you know that if your hard drive died, unless you had a recent backup it would all be gone like a puff of smoke?
It surprises me sometimes how lazy we are with our pictures and other important data. Not backing up is like leaving all your pictures, certificates and other important stuff sitting in a box in your back yard. Sure it may last a while but eventually the box will get rained on. What has this got to do with moving from XP? Well now is the time to do something! Back up that little box inside the computer that has it all.
One tool I love is Acronis. It is one of the masters at this business and it has saved me many times over. Or you can try this free one from Macrium for one offs. So this will do the trick for your upgrade. Download one of these and make a full backup of your pc to an external hard drive. This will make sure it is all there so you can sort it out afterwards. Infoworld inspired this little tip although I am always beating this drum.
They also mention to make sure you have all of your passwords written down that were saved in XP . Backup Backup Backup.
Well, it is here for the general population. It has been available here in Oz all day however I ordered some retail keys from Microsoft direct in the US. Have not heard from anyone yet! It was very low key here with sales at midnight.
The Windows 7 bashing continues however lets compare apples with apples. On a MAC with boot camp installed is faster then Windows 7 booting. Of course it is! (on a MAC – you serious what else could it be?) Does Microsoft deserve it? Probably for Vista which as I have said was what Windows 7 should have been. They let Apple walk all over them with those ad campaigns.
What a great game!
Meanwhile PC World tells us how to get Windows 7 on a netbook in half an hour.
Did you know that there at least 77 tips to make your Windows 7 life easier?
This is a stretch of imagination. I must admit a few may have been swayed by Vista – I know someone who actually got a Mac book because they hated Vista so much but they are not exactly computer savy which is the MAC target market. I know because my brother uses MACS and let me say, he has no idea! (even with macs) It was very interesting to read anyway. I am not religious about Windows, its only that the vast majority of corporations use them so I have to know them and of course for me there is the cost.
I'm a Windows 7 pc
FYI, I was would also like to announce that I got rejected as Windows party host. I did not even make the finals. I felt like a reject. Imagine being rejected for a Windows 7 party? I wonder if MAC will have me…hehehe
When I was a boy scout (a pretty hopeless one at that), we had a simple saying – “Be prepared”. What are you talking about you might say? I am glad you asked.
• Get ready – Find out where you keep all of your stuff. (Generally this is My Documents, My Music, My Pictures and don’t forget stuff kept on the desktop!)
• Get set – Run the Windows 7 upgrade advisor on your pc and see what programs it might not like or hardware that may not work.
• Go – Backup your documents and install Windows 7!
Be Prepared!
More information
- Check out this if you can upgrade your pc.
- This one is good too.
Remember the good old work group? You made sure your computer was in the same work group and then shared files with each other before Windows servers came along and you logged on to a “domain”? (Perhaps you don’t) Windows introduces a new way to share resources like documents and pictures amongst a group of computers in a home environment. This follows on nicely from the last post about libraries. You create a “master” computer which creates a home group that all the others join. Check out this video.
One big happy family!