I have recently had my work PC upgraded and not through choice my Microsoft Windows version was elevated to 'Windows 7 Professional' from a very old school 'Windows 95' version which I was using on my ancient office PC. This is the latest Microsoft product for home and small business use and was initially released in 2009, which is when all the irritating adverts started (I'm a PC and Windows 7 was my...Blah Blah). I find it quite amusing that they are using 'normal people' in their advertisements claiming they invented and helped design the product, perhaps in case this one goes the same way Vista did. At home and through my studies I used Windows XP Home ...  Read the complete review

I had been using Window Vista for about 2 years before I upgraded to Windows 7. Vista was an improvement over XP in many ways, but was very clogged up with junk and was badly designed for the user. Along comes Windows 7. I can now say that without a doubt, Windows 7 fixed any issues I had with Vista. The interface is brilliant, clean and incredibly customisable (Change colours, transparency and the size of the super bar). You only get security warnings when you need them, and they're alot more organised now. Windows 7 adds a whole new taskbar dubbed the "Superbar". Programs will now show up as 1 square icon, no matter how many windows ...  Read the complete review

This review is under the Windows 7 Professional section. Although I actually have the Enterprise version, it's basically a business version of Professional. There are a few extra features, most to do with security and I don't have anything to do with that side. Microsoft shot themselves in the foot with Windows Vista, which I have on my personal laptop. It was hyped up so much and Microsoft gave everybody such great expectations of it, that it was a real slap in the face when it came out, everyone bought it and discovered what it was really like. Windows Vista was a disaster. It was sluggish, did things in a very odd way and it was hard to actually find things ...  Read the complete review

Introduction Although I work, I'm a part time student too so that qualified me for the Microsoft Utlimate Steal and Windows 7 came up via this a few days before its launch and I bought it for £39. Bargain. As instructed I ran the update advisor (a short program you download from the microsoft website) and it advised me that a 32 bit version was better than a 64 bit, but I had to increase by RAM as Windows 7 32 bit needs 1GB of free RAM and I didn't have that (read Crucial review tro see how that was remedied. (The 64 bit version need 2GB of free RAM). Most importantly the upgrade advisor advised me that my version of Windows could be upgraded ...  Read the complete review

Latest Operating System from MICROSOFT Windows 7. There is no doubt that Windows Vista had done a lot of damage to the reputation of Microsoft. They have tried their level best to incorporate to some of the expectation of the users with the release of Windows 7 which were raised after a very successful release of the Windows XP series. It will not be unfair to say that XP series is very impressive and hardly had any compatibility issues that were difficult for users to comply with. The expections about Windows 7 have not been wholly belied. It will be an error to conclude that it's an improvement of the Vista, in fact it's a whole new OS. Windows 7 does not ...  Read the complete review