Windows 7

[persia]

Loaded it on a couple of computers at work and my wife's PC at home.  It's better than Vista, faster, cleaner.  Generally we've replaced our Vista machines with Windows 7.  You can turn off the bloody warnings.  MS and Apple did similar releases, largely bug fixes.  If you're an MS Windows fan you'll come, if your an Apple fan you'll go 'meh.'

[persia]

I received a request at work today, a lab with XP PCs wants to upgrade to Windows 7, first time I've received a request from someone who wasn't running Vista.  I'll let you know their reactions.  XP is really starting to show it's age.  I'm not a big Windows fan, but I've upgrade all the MSWindows machines in my personal life to 7.

[persia]

Now they can get rid of those crap ports on the back of PCs, who needs PS2, Serial and Parallel in 2010?  It ticks me off that I have to use a USB hub when they could have eliminated the junk and put more USB ports instead.

[persia]

We moved a dozen PCs from XP to Windows 7 today, a compete science lab.  Everything works and users like the new interface.  It seems about as peppy as XP.  I'm going to schedule the upgrade of every PC under my control to Windows 7 that has enough power.   In most cases it's just putting in a couple ram sticks to get them there.  XP is just too ancient to be of use in 2010.

As a side benefit they seem to play well in a majority Mac shop.  The hooked to the XServes without the normal problems that XP seems to have.  We can share devices better and share files better.  All in all a much more responsive and cooperative OS.