Windows 7: My First Brief Look
06:00 PM: Oh and how could I forget? I got my first look at Windows 7 today when I went to Pink’s house to assist her with backup restorations. She runs this OS on her laptop. It uses many of the same sounds as Vista does, and also incorporates the “spinning circle” to let you know that it’s busy doing something.
I’ll have to spring for a copy of this latest version of Windows. This computer I’m writing on is due to be reformatted. However, I’m not sure I want to put XP back on it again, because of all those updates that It would be behind; I have the initial version of XP on CD in my archives. So once that’s reinstalled, I’d have to download all three service packs again, not to mention the well over a hundred updates. Naaah. I think I’ll get Seven, which has all those updates already built in (I hope).
I purchased a new Vista-compatible PNY graphics card nearly two years ago for this computer, intending to put upgrade it to Vista. But with all the reports circulating then about Vista being such a resource hog and so plagued with bugs and issues, I held off. Actually, I’m sorry I did. I run Vista on one two of my laptops and have experienced no stability or performance problems with it in my capacity as a DJ and writer. I’ve been able to cooberate none of the Vista gripes in my environment.
Even after the Vista service packs came out, I still delayed because Windows 7 was on the wind, and with it being so close to release last year, I didn’t want to upgrade this computer to Vista, and then have to do it again soon thereafter.
But now, the time is right. Yes, I could wait for Windows 7, Service Pack 1. But now, I’m tired of waiting for stuff. 
I’ll upgrade sometime in the next couple months. You know what they say: If you wait too long, you end up waiting forever.