Archive for October 22nd, 2009

You bet!

Big Rock Graphics have been a part of the beta testing of Windows 7 for the past several months, and have to say it’s a vast improvement over Windows Vista, finally.

What has some scratching their heads, and most likely a good number of other beta testers, is why Windows 7 was needed at all. Sure Vista was a bit slow and cumbersome at times, and required some drastic system updates to run well. But couldn’t another service pack fix that? Well… no. Windows Vista problems went right to the core and unless people wanted to download a 3.5Gb update “fix” there was no fixing it without rebuilding it from the inside out. It was the wisest move Microsoft could make really. Both in regards to giving customers the best option and support for their new product, and in regards to trying to recoup some of the financial losses, that Windows Vista inflicted upon Microsoft.

Windows 7 does everything Windows Vista does only better. From handling resources, new bells and whistles such as support for a whole range of new devices such as touch screens, faster boot speed (because we just reboot our systems all day right?) to generally making life easier (or some would say more “interesting”) for system administrators with a whole batch of new tools.

One of the downsides though is driver support. Of course once this is ironed out and developers jump on board it’ll be a short trip for Windows 7 to reach the promised reliability heights.

Also, apologies to our Open Source buddies. While we still support you strongly there will always be a need for MS Windows in the marketplace. In fact I’m now posting this entry from the Ubuntu partition but will soon have to reboot back into the XP partition so some work can be done. If only there was effective support for our Adobe Suite in Ubuntu *sigh*

So stay tuned. We don’t expect much change from the final Windows 7  RC, and we’re hoping some of those changes don’t impact on the performance boosts, but we’ll let you know as soon as it’s up and running.