Posts by markbriggs

Windows 7 - the Reg reader verdict

Windows 7 - I'm actually impressed!

Had a Vista machine running Vista Ultimate SP2 with 4GB RAM. Everything running fine but decided to put Windows 7 Ultimate on. Took about 30 minutes to install and hey presto - all the good things from XP and all the nice UI from Vista, only really fast and stable!

I have 3 Mac's in the house too and have upgraded them to Snow Leopard, I'm finding a couple of niggly things with Snow Leopard (64 Bit screensavers not displaying pics properly is one of them) but I'd still bang the following mantra.....

If you're at home - run Mac OS-X, if you're in the office run Windows XP or Windows 7, and if you're on the road then run Mac OS-X with Parallels or VM-WARE Fusion so you can get the best of both worlds!

Vista SP3

I really don't concur with those saying that Windows 7 slows down after weeks of using it. I installed it 6 weeks ago now (I'm a Volume Licence customer and got it through MSDN) and it's as quick today as it was the day I installed it.

The only quirk I have is that sometimes when I fire up IE8 it tells me that my previous browser session crashed and gives me a choice of going to my home page or restoring my previous session??!! Weird!

It's a good product, and so it should be! I do agree that Windows 7 is what I should have got when I bought Vista - following that logic I feel that going from XP to Windows 7 should be a paid for upgrade, but going from Vista to Windows 7 should be free. I don't mind MS calling it Windows 7 - but we all feel it's Vista SP3!

That's not quite right what you're saying...

Michael C - you don't have to open the Start menu to create another instance of an application already open (in your case Excel). Simply right-click the icon on the taskbar and select the self describing application just under the separator bar - in your case righ-click the Excel icon and select "Microsoft Office Excel 2007". Hey presto a new instance opens.

I'll be the first to criticise where MS get's it wrong, but let's not pretend that Mac's Exchange integration within Snow Leopard is in anyway acceptable in a true office environment - it isn't!