The Distinction In between Windows XP and
Windows 7
Article by
Bashar Lulu (227 pts )
Edited & published by Lamar Stonecypher (76,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus,436 pts ) on Oct 7, 2009 On April 30 Microsoft released
Windows 7 Release Candidate to MSDN subscribers and to the general public on May 1. Microsoft is practically giving the operating system away until March 2010. I installed
Windows 7, and here are my findings on the new OS. google_ads_line1 google_ads_visurlgoogle_ads_line2 google_ads_line3 I've been planning, in my head, for this day for quite some time now. The last time I formatted any of my systems, let alone the notebook that is my main machine, was almost 3 years ago. To be frank, Windows XP had become so slow that I could not wait for the release candidate of
Windows 7. Release candidate means that Se7en is beyond the beta testing phase and is OK for casual use,
Office 2010 Activation Key, but not quite “bug free” yet.
I did my homework well. I backed up my files, created a virtual machine (using VMware’s free tool,
Buy Office 2007, VMware vCenter Converter) on my main partition, and created emergency bootable media, just in case I needed to come back to Windows XP, heavens forbid. Don't get me wrong, I loved Windows XP, but over the course of 9 or so years,
Office Pro Plus, I've learned to hate the aging operating system. This became especially acute when Vista was introduced (which I did not adopt out of pure laziness) and I saw all the new 'stuff' that came along with it.
I inserted the Windows DVD, restarted my machine,
Microsoft Office Home And Student 2010, and began the installation process. Surprisingly, not too much was required for it to install, and soon afterwards it was done. I was running 7 for the first time ever!