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I used my college alumni email to purchase Windows 7 for $29.99 and I have to say I’m glad I did. I only had a few problems marring my love for this wonderful product. I purchased a laptop with Windows Vista Ultimate. Thus, the upgrade process was as though I owned Windows XP and I had to do a clean install instead of an upgrade.

I found the install process to be streamlined and unobtrusive. It even offered to connect me to my preferred wireless network before finishing the installation. It dumped all of my files and folders into a Windows.old file where I could retrieve them later. I took this chance to start anew as I let things get out of control on this computer and reinstalled everything as I wanted fresh start. I found many manufacturers updated their drivers for Windows 7.

On the positive side of things the UAC (User Account Control) is much less intrusive and makes itself easier to turn off, by clicking a hyperlink in the box that appears when you do something to causes it to appear. Furthermore, the Readyboost technology that premiered in Vista is back and refined to work better with flash drives. I took my 4GB flash drive and used it as a Readyboost device and I notice a bit of an improvement in performance, though my computer in up against the 4GB 32-but ceiling Windows sets.

To sum things up, Windows 7 just ‘feels’ more stable. It doesn’t feel like a half-baked attempt at an OS like Microsoft tried with Vista. It may help that there wasn’t a firing of developers halfway through and Microsoft kept it in-house this time. All of the above comments make Apple’s commercial depicting PC guy saying each version of Windows will be better then the last come off as catty and childish. That may have much to do with the fact that Windows has finally hit a home run with Windows 7.

Good Move Microsoft! 4/5