Windows Vista and Office 2007 Launches and We Try and Launch With It
After attending the Windows Vista and Office 2007 launch today, I can breathe a sigh of relief. It feels like Vista has been talked about for ages and now it’s finally here, and I’m hoping that that is a good thing.As tempting as it has been, I waited until Vista’s launch to actually install Vista on any of my computers. Beta testing the operating system this past year didn’t tempt me much, even though I did follow the saga as it unfolded. At last, the big day has finally came and went and I now have a fresh copy of Windows Vista installed on my laptop. The slick new Aero interface and all of Vista’s new tricks are impressing me more and more. But when it comes down to it all, what I care most about is performance and that is what would encourage me to upgrade and to tell others to upgrade. Vista eats up powerful computer systems but claims to pay you back with superior performance. I’m going to give this whole Vista thing a run, and see if that proves to be true.
Security is also a big issue for me. I’ve mostly enjoyed using Windows XP all these years, but I’m fed up with playing Nancy Drew every other week in the search to discover what spyware or virus is slowing down my system that day. (And yes I have an updated firewall, anti-virus and anti-spyware program running). Anyway, I’m ready to take the plunge - but not completely. My run with Vista will first take place on my laptop. If my expectations are met I’ll take the upgrade to my Desktop as well. I’ll keep you posted about my launch in to Vista.
And not to be left out, Office 2007 has also been launched. I’ve been beta testing it for a while now and I like the new features a lot. Unfortunately, I foresee tech support working overtime to assist the people who can barely function in previous versions of Microsoft Office as it is. The new ribbon interface is pretty intuitive, but people tend to have a hard time adopting to change, especially when the structure of a program has remained pretty static for over a decade. Is it worth the upgrade? Office 2007 is pretty solid and it does have a slew of cool new features. So if you have the money to upgrade now, my opinion would be to go for it. However, most folk should be fine holding on to their current version of Office for the meantime.
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I used a pre release version of Windows Vista for a couple days, and I must say it is beautiful. However it suffers from the same old things which I have always hated about Microsoft Windows.
Before I knew it I had the same old junk that always appeared with Windows XP, such as a Yahoo toolbar for IE, that I never installed or gave permission to install! It won’t be long before you see the same commercial garbage polluting the system.
I have been a linux user for 4 years, and I must say that it is a whole different world. Software should be a tool not a hinderence. I kept having problems with Vista telling me the way I should use my software. Vista is heavily DRM infected…
Linux can do everything the majority of people need to do. The only weak areas are games, even though most windows games can be played via wine. With everything else its just a solid experience.
I had over 400 days of uptime on my computer once without rebooting…400 days!…try that with any flavor of windows.
Thanks for the quick review… and the cool screenshot! I bought a new laptop recently, which I use for heavy video editing, and it screams; but I am skeptical about going for that Vista upgrade they offered me, because I can’t afford to sacrifice performance just for something pretty and new. Once you’ve tried it out for a while, and decide to upgrade your desktop, drop us another article and let us know how it’s going!
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