Windows 7: After One Month (Student Perspective)
Ii am a student and 15 years old. I purchased Windows 7 just over a month now and I have to say it was definitely worth the £70 to upgrade. It is a more stable operating system than Vista and is more refined with better features. The main reason I bought Windows 7 was because I found Vista so unreliable and it just kept on crashing and never worked, so I went into a electronics shop and purchased the upgrade edition. I went home to install Windows 7; first of all some of the programs I had on my computer it didn't like, such as my webcam software.
I had to uninstall all the programs it didn't like and then eventually it started to install, but 4 hours later it still hadn't finished installing and by 6 hours it had installed. I think the main reason it took so long was because it had to transfer all my files from Vista over into Windows 7.
The feature that is most useful when doing work is the split screen mode this enables you to have to windows open side by side, so you can have a Word document open and a Wikipedia page. This makes work a lot easier. The new Taskbar is one of the features Microsoft have been blabbing about and when I got it i didn't get on with it. It's one of those things you love or you hate. At first I hated the new Taskbar, especially with MSN; it took two clicks to open a conversation instead of one. But I have now learned to like Windows 7 and even the new Taskbar.
Advantages
- Easier To Use
- More Stable
- You will notice quicker boot and shutdown speed
- It seems to process information quicker
- User Friendly
- XP mode (professional and ultimate only)
- Dierect X 11 support
Disadvantages
- Long installation*
- Should really be a bit cheaper
- Not that different from Vista
- Some programs wont work with 7 as-well as they did with Vista
Summary
I would give this a 8 out of 10. I think it is a good upgrade from Vista, but it is more refined than anything else and 7 is what Vista should have been. £70 upgrade to Home Premium Upgrade is quite expensive for something that isn't that different, but despite this it is more reliable, stable, quicker and not as bloated as Vista.
*My computer specs are:
Intel Core Duo 1.87Ghz
2GB DDR2 RAM
Ati x200m
80GB HDD
Christian Wells Dec 7, 2009 at 12:09 PM
Reader Comments (4)
I like seven, I used it as my main OS since early beta stages. I've yet to buy it though.
Im not sure why it took you so long to upgrade, maybe because you did an in place upgrade instead of the clean install. It only took me 40 mins to install (on a clean install)
I don't know why this is taking you people so long!? It took me 15 minutes tops full clean install.
I did an inplace upgrade and thats the main reason it took so long i would of done a clean install but i had software that was one licence only and i would of had to repurchase all my software.
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