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Windows 7 is here! And for reasons I can't explain, it conjures up memories of the Life Cereal commercial from the seventys. You remember? It's the one with the kids giving their new, healthy cereal to the baby brother proclaiming "Lets' get Mikey, he won't eat it, he hates everything!" And then the astonished brothers are jubilantly shouting "He likes it! Hey Mikey!" Well, call me Mikey, but I think I like it too. Windows 7 that is! There are three basic flavors of Windows 7. They are: Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, and Windows 7 Ultimate. These are roughly the equivalent of Windows XP home, Windows XP Professional, and Windows Media Center, with some exceptions. When Microsoft first introduced Media Center the target market was home users and the target activity was tv/movie/video. The original target market for XP Professional was office employees connected to a dedicated server. And, if perchance, you were an office employee attached to a dedicated server that also needed tv/movie/video, well, so sorry, you lose. Because Media Center was never intended to be used in conjunction with a network, and Professional was never planned to be heavy into tv/movie/video. That is not a problem now. With each step up the Windows 7 ladder, all of the features in the lesser version are included. And from my point of view, I like it! It was always cumbersome explaining to people why they couldn't have both. Other features with 7: 7 has taken the beauty of Vista and made it prettier. It has taken the annoyances of Vista and hidden them or removed them. It has taken the slowness of Vista and injected some adrenaline. But what I am most excited about is the backward compatible mode, also known as XP Mode, the purpose of which is to allow you to run older software under the Windows XP operating system. There are some gotch yas with XP Mode. For instance, your processor has to be able to support virtualization and systems with minimum requirements are not powerful enough to make this happen. Plus, XP Mode is only available in the Professional and Ultimate versions and it is still to early to tell just how compatible this will be, but for now, I am excited. I'm thinking this may be a good thing and I think I'm going to like it! To safer computing, ~Janet |
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