MS Windows 7 Home Premium

Windows 7 makes Windows Vista feel like a beta. That's my philosophy. It was my philosophy before I bought Windows 7 and it's still my philosophy now. That's where the "it looks like Vista" comments come from. Windows 7 is Vista without all the rubbish. Everything people moaned about in vista is gone (or improved) and 7 is more spangly and all singing and dancing. It looks better, runs more smoothly and is simple to use. You might even say its been dumbed down for the masses. Simplified. It's a pleasure to use. It loads more quickly than Vista and is aesthetically pleasing as it does so. The first thing to note is the ease with which it installed. ...  Read the complete review

Windows 7 has been said by Microsoft as being much improved and everyone would be happy with the end result. But is it really better, below is my review of a few sections which I believe is most important and compare it to older versions. Speed: 9/10 Much faster than Vista. To compare with the Vista OS, on Vista it took around 30 secs to 45 secs to boot up and log me in. Now on Windows 7 it takes 20 - 30 secs to boot up. Shut down is also so much faster. Vista = 15 secs... Windows 7 = 5 secs..... So there is a huge improvement. Also when running programs or browsing the internet you feel like this Operating System is very smooth and just does what you ...  Read the complete review

Microsoft has been pulling out a lot of commercials lately to try and make Windows look 'cool'. There is no doubt that they are trying to directly compete with Apple, who have started to slowly eat away at the percentage of computer users who use Windows. Microsoft hoped that Vista was going to be the next best thing, but alas people were not ready for such a big change, and it appears Apple have profited. There were a lot of things Vista did right, but what the team at Redmond did wrong has given Vista a quite unfair reputation. But at the same time, I think people's expectations were unfair. Who realistically expected a faster operating system from one designed for ...  Read the complete review

Windows 7 -Build 7100 -32 bit version - Release Candidate Having tried the Beta versions of windows 7 in both 32 and 64 bit modes, it was nice to be able to download something that has had some bugs fixed and has continued to work for me without any major problems. Microsoft have realised that it's the middle of a 'Credit Crunch' or depression, so they have come up with a cunning plan. You can have Windows 7 for FREE! There is a catch, of course, it will only be for a year, and after next 1st March 2010, it will start closing down every two hours, before it closes down for good on 1st June 2010. The idea is that you will realise how good Windows 7 ...  Read the complete review

In July, I downloaded the Release Candidate of Windows 7 to evaluate the new operating system and I have to say it's the best version of Windows yet! It surpasses Vista in every way. Windows 7 is not available yet but I'm encouraging all Vista uers to upgrade in October as soon as the software is released. In the rest of my review I will outline some of the key features. For starters, the toolbar has been changed dramatically. In previous versions of windows, the active windows (i.e. open programs and applications) would appear seperately as tabs with the symbols and titles of the programs (with the option to group similar windows together under one tab, such ...  Read the complete review