Cheers all,

As you may have heard, Microsoft released Windows 7 yesterday. Because MIT is awesome, IST (Information Services and Technology) had it ready for students to download for free and install the same day. So, taking advantage of this, I upgraded my Windows 7 RC partition to the full-on version, Windows 7 Enterprise. And I have to say, it seems pretty nice so far! Here’s a screenshot of my desktop:

Since I never had Vista, I can’t compare speeds. It does seem to be pretty quick though, it looks as though the OS might be pre-loading or caching certain commonly used programs.

The only hiccup I’ve found was that, immediately after installing, Windows 7 didn’t recognize my graphics card, so I didn’t have Windows Aero and my screen resolution was small. Windows later redirected me to download a graphics driver from nVidia’s website, which worked quite well.

Coming from Windows XP and Ubuntu, one feature I think that’s really cool is the Media Center. You can play music and have a pretty, moving display of your albums in full screen mode. I think it’s pretty knarley:

Although it’s a bit early to say for sure, I think Windows 7 is going to be a success.

See you later!