John C. Flackett

Being a techie, I suppose you’d think I’d have something in-depth to say about the latest Operating System release from Microsoft (even a review perhaps). Well, I’m actually super under-whelmed by the fact that a new Windows version has been released. Even still, a new version of Windows is exciting right? Really?

I suppose if I were a MS Vista user (I staunchly refuse to move from XP which I think is actually OK, being as it’s based on Windows NT – the best Windows OS ever released) I might have been interested…I would also be a very tired person right now: up since the crack of dawn to secure a copy and then spending the whole day trying to install it and getting it to work (alright, I don’t know it’s a pig to install, but I bet there are some hardware issues with older machines i.e., >year).

What’s so exciting?

Really, it’s difficult for me to justify writing this post because I’m not going to try Windows 7 for some time (not until the first Service Pack has been released at the very least), however, the reason I’m under-whelmed is because I really don’t see the benefit given the list of things MS says Windows 7 does. Most of the new things I’ll never use and most of the things I’ll want to use will be a pain to use (I’m sure this OS will be just as restrictive as Vista – just in different ways).

Even by taking my own advice and looking outside the corporate MS marketing bubble, I’m still not convinced.  My fav site (Lifehacker) provides a great Complete Guide to Windows 7, but this just reaffirms what I already thought….most of the stuff is just fixing what made Vista so annoying to use!

Hey, I might be proved wrong, but for power users I still don’t see what any offering from MS can offer that we haven’t had for ages in Linux…Bah! Humbug!