by Admin
8. August 2009 21:33
I have been involved with beta testing of Windows 7 for quite some time now. Yes, I am one of those who did not use Windows Vista because of all the stories you heard about it. I bought a new Dell Latitude laptop two months ago and even on that I opted for installation of Windows XP. I have been happy with Windows 7 performance since day 1. The beta release of the operating system used to run much better than retail version of Windows XP. So I have been waiting for Windows 7 to go RTM. Now finally it has been made available for download from MSDN as well. I spent my weekend to upgrade all my development workstations from Windows XP to Windows 7. Needless to say all the installations went very smooth. I did not run into any major issues with. On of my older Dell Precision laptops it did not install latest drivers for NVIDIA video card and did not recoganize my wireless card as well. But that was not a big issue. I was able to quickly use my driver CD for Windows XP for my laptop and got all taken care of.
My overall experience has been satisfactory with installation of Windows 7 on desktop as well as laptops. Now I am working on installing my development tools like SQL Server, Visual Studio etc. And I will post my experience about those as well in next few days.
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