Well, lemme put it this way. My experience with Windows 7 has been so good that I'm going to buy it when it's released. (That is, I'll give it a
month or two for the real tech-heads to have a go at it and rip it to shreds so I'll know what to expect.) Honestly, all the quirky crap with Vista is
gone, a few new shineys have been added, and what's left is a surprisingly rock solid OS.
Sure, it will take a bit of getting used to (perhaps more so for you, Bob, since you'd be making the jump from 2000 instead of XP or Vista). Things are
not where one would have once expected them to be. Trying to get at your Networking device's IP settings to setup an IP Address manually takes a bit of
doing, but it can be done without the OS freaking out at you.
Other than that, the interface is shiney, clean, and utterly uncluttered, memory management is a far cry better (though I still recomend having at least 2
Gigs, which seems to be the low-end standard nowadays anyhow), and the hardware compatability is something to behold.
If memory is an issue, Bob, then rest assured that you can find a pair of 1 Gig RAM for a very reasonable price. Just as long as you aren't using
something absurdely ancient on which even Windows 2000 chuggs, in which case I recomend just getting a new compy all together.
month or two for the real tech-heads to have a go at it and rip it to shreds so I'll know what to expect.) Honestly, all the quirky crap with Vista is
gone, a few new shineys have been added, and what's left is a surprisingly rock solid OS.
Sure, it will take a bit of getting used to (perhaps more so for you, Bob, since you'd be making the jump from 2000 instead of XP or Vista). Things are
not where one would have once expected them to be. Trying to get at your Networking device's IP settings to setup an IP Address manually takes a bit of
doing, but it can be done without the OS freaking out at you.
Other than that, the interface is shiney, clean, and utterly uncluttered, memory management is a far cry better (though I still recomend having at least 2
Gigs, which seems to be the low-end standard nowadays anyhow), and the hardware compatability is something to behold.
If memory is an issue, Bob, then rest assured that you can find a pair of 1 Gig RAM for a very reasonable price. Just as long as you aren't using
something absurdely ancient on which even Windows 2000 chuggs, in which case I recomend just getting a new compy all together.