It’s fairly obvious that Vista has been a flop and users as well as industry professionals have made Microsoft well aware of this fact. There is almost no compelling reason for the average user or business to put money into upgrading to Vista. Some of these people are best advised to wait anyway because Windows 7 promises to be “Vista done right.”
According to Crunchgear the Windows 7 install was completed in an hour though other reports have it being completed in as little as 30 minutes on sufficiently fast hardware. Lockergnome reports that after the install was complete the computer was ready to use. It did lack a few drivers here and there, but overall the completeness of the install was far greater than it was with Vista.
It still lacks an integrated security suite though the basic firewall and Windows Defender are included they should not be relied on as a primary level of defense. You will still need a standalone security suite. This is no different than it has been for previous versions of Windows. It would be nice to see this change with Microsoft since the company is working on a free version of its security suite.
Windows 7 will be an improvement over Vista. Will it be enough or too little too late? This game is too early to call but it’s hard to not say that Windows 7 is what Vista should have been.
Hopefully Microsoft will be more compelled to get Windows 7 exactly right before rushing it out the door. No matter how big a company it may be even the executives there have seen the value of making a quality product instead of simply releasing something for the sake of releasing it.
Windows 7 had better be the biggest release since Windows XP or Microsoft may find more of its much coveted market share slipping away to Mac or Linux or both.
Source: Blorge
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