The tech messiah has come!!...a.k.a Windows 7

Yes, I realize it was released a month ago and I am a little late to the lather-up-in-Windows7-butter party. I've been on a bit of a blogging hiatus for a while. I got into reading and doing book reviews and then got busy with other stuff...but I am back to my senses now. Not that I am no longer going to do book reviews. I like it, in fact. But this is a tech blog...and no matter my attempts to hide it and push it deep down into the dark recesses of my persona, I am still just a simple tech geek. We are what we are, no since fighting it.

So, on that note, with some fear and trepidation, I have made the jump to Windows 7. And, so far, I love it. There are the usual pains of changing to a new OS interface (like we had with the Windows95 jump...and then in turn the Windows XP jump) where things are in different places and some ways of doing things have changed. But what I like about it is simple...it works. The way things are done might be different, but the new ways work. The old ways didn't always do that.

There are some similar issues with Vista. Legacy hardware and software support is not guaranteed. Some legacy apps that I used with XP don't work on Windows7. The majority of these apps have released newer versions that work with Vista/Windows7, but then that requires buying a new version (usually) and then likely that interface has changed and so now another learning curve to figure out how to do the same things I did before. Painful yes...but, change often is.

It seems to use system resources more efficiently than XP did. It feels much faster than XP on the same laptop. It has some new graphics and motion and frilly stuff that many home users will enjoy, at least superficially. But more important to me is that it works. It does what it says it does.

The jury is still out one whether it is their best ever. There are countless different scenarios even just with the process of migrating to Windows7 from earlier versions that haven't been fully tested. The next 6 months or so will tell the tale more clearly. I'm not going to get into all the specifics of Windows 7 just yet...mostly because I haven't had time to go through it all myself.

But, so far, I'm impressed. It's almost enough to get that nasty "Vista" taste out of my mouth.