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I posted a review of this on my other blog and now with this new blog I thought I would do the same only with a little bit more detail and specifics. Windows 7 is a pretty decent upgrade from both Windows Vista and Windows XP. There quite a few improvements that I feel are worth mentioning. First would certainly be the lack of the UAC or the little pest as I like to call it. It only bothers me occasionally with Windows 7 whereas in Windows Vista it was a constant annoyance. Second, would be four new features that stand out as a reason to upgrade. In no particular order:

• The shake – when you grab the window by the top and shake it quickly with your mouse it minimizes the rest of the windows that were up. This allows you to quickly and efficiently work on just what you need as opposed to having to minimize each window.
• The split screen – if you drag a window over to the edge of the screen it will then adjust to taking up half the screen. You can do this with two windows giving you the split screen without having to size each window. This feature is worth upgrading by itself. I can analyze two different things at the same time without having to adjust the size of each window. I can’t tell you how much time this saves me because I do this and use this a lot.
• Tabbed Browsing – finally this works the way that it should have all along. I am a big fan of tabbed browsing because it allows you to open several different “browsers” without having to open different windows. Windows 7 now makes it so much more intuitive as all you have to do is highlight the browser (currently this feature only works with Internet Explorer) and it shows you all of the tabs that browser has open. Previously it would only show you the tab that was on top and the rest of the tabs were still hidden and thus you would be tab hunting for a few seconds to a few minutes if you had a lot of tabs open like I do some times.
• The Task Bar – the task bar is more user friendly and doesn’t take up nearly as much space. It also allows you to use it more like the Quick Launch task bar like in Windows XP and Windows Vista. Overall this cuts down on the space that an individual program uses and keeps things looking a lot cleaner and smoother.

Now mind you there are several other reasons to upgrade if you are so inclined but keep in mind that the versions aren’t nearly all that important. I have used both Windows 7 Professional and Windows 7 Ultimate and honestly I don’t see the difference. It would be a waste of money in my opinion to jump from Windows 7 Home Premium to almost any other version unless you have a specific need of one of their particular features.

Don’t get me wrong Windows 7 isn’t the end all beat all of operating systems but it has come a long ways and is definitely an improvement. Would I rush out and buy it for Christmas? Depends on if you would use the features that Windows 7 comes with and it would save you time. If you don’t ever use any of the features then well it would be a waste of money. Now for those of you who are into security, the National Security Agency actually consulted on the security of Windows 7. Now it entirely depends on your views of this as to whether or not this would be important to you. Personally, I like the fact that they consulted on it. It gives me hope that Microsoft will start listening more to others about their software.

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