I Admit It, I Like Windows 7

Having spent the last few years running Ubuntu exclusively on my laptop, I had started to believe I would never go back to Windows. Then a couple of things happened; firstly I was evaluating Windows 7 on a laptop that would handle XP but not Vista. Once I’d switched off the eye candy, had things looking Windows 2003 Server-ish and installed Google Chrome for web browsing, things were running pretty well. I was reasonably impressed.

Then my wife pointed out that the lease period on my laptop was up, and suggested a trip to Harvey Normans to see what the options were in terms of upgrades etc. A couple of hours later, and quite unexpectedly, I was playing with my new toy; a Sony VAIO (my previous machine was a VAIO as well, I love them) VGN-FW55GF with 4GB RAM, ATI graphics and Windows 7 64 Bit (Home Premium).

With the extra resources, processing power, and improved graphics adapter I am allowing Windows 7 run in its full eye candy glory, and I have to admit Microsoft seem to have produced a good-looking system that performs well.

Obviously an Ubuntu 64 Bit Live CD will be in order at some point, just to make a comparison, but for the time being I’ve rejoined the Microsoft world. I never thought I would say this, but it seems MS have finally produced an operating system that beats Windows 2000 Professional.

Of course, I still need to remove all the trial software crap, install Chrome as the default browser (IE8 is crap no matter how you look at it)