Background
The question that this review will ask is: Should you get or upgrade to Windows 7?
The answer could depend a lot on what operating system you currently use. Approx. 22% of the operating systems used on the internet are Windows Vista compared with 68% who use Windows XP.
Windows XP was first released in 2001 and replaced Windows 2000 and Windows Me and was finally stopped being sold as of June 2008, a year and a half after the launch of Vista in January 2007. Vista was released 5 years after its predecessor, the longest Microsoft has gone between launches of its Windows operating system.
Vista received a lot of criticism and in many ways was in inferior to XP. There are lots of stories about people and businesses buying systems with Vista, then downgrading to XP. Vista did outperform XP in sales in the same amount of time from its release compared to XP however, and there are good things about Vista such as the direct 10 with use in gaming.
Windows powers around 90% of the computers around the world, and Microsoft estimate that approx. one billion people use it in one form or another. During the last financial year (2008), Windows sales accounted for more than half of the $14.6bn in profits.
Can Microsoft survive if Windows 7 is a flop? It's been suggested that the future success of the company depends on the success or failure of the new OS. Critics are saying that the monopoly Microsoft has on the OS market is going to end, with competition from Apple, open-source Linux, and a possibility that we could move away from desktop machines and run software from servers instead.
Microsoft has earned a lot of attention from regulators because of its behaviour towards competitors. Vista didn't help their image either, and that was 2 years overdue. Windows 7 was delivered on time however.
The question that this review will ask is: Should you get or upgrade to Windows 7?
The answer could depend a lot on what operating system you currently use. Approx. 22% of the operating systems used on the internet are Windows Vista compared with 68% who use Windows XP.
Windows XP was first released in 2001 and replaced Windows 2000 and Windows Me and was finally stopped being sold as of June 2008, a year and a half after the launch of Vista in January 2007. Vista was released 5 years after its predecessor, the longest Microsoft has gone between launches of its Windows operating system.
Vista received a lot of criticism and in many ways was in inferior to XP. There are lots of stories about people and businesses buying systems with Vista, then downgrading to XP. Vista did outperform XP in sales in the same amount of time from its release compared to XP however, and there are good things about Vista such as the direct 10 with use in gaming.
Windows powers around 90% of the computers around the world, and Microsoft estimate that approx. one billion people use it in one form or another. During the last financial year (2008), Windows sales accounted for more than half of the $14.6bn in profits.
Can Microsoft survive if Windows 7 is a flop? It's been suggested that the future success of the company depends on the success or failure of the new OS. Critics are saying that the monopoly Microsoft has on the OS market is going to end, with competition from Apple, open-source Linux, and a possibility that we could move away from desktop machines and run software from servers instead.
Microsoft has earned a lot of attention from regulators because of its behaviour towards competitors. Vista didn't help their image either, and that was 2 years overdue. Windows 7 was delivered on time however.
- Things looked favourable performance wise from the beta version that was made public in January 2009
- Has Windows 7 made our computing easier to handle?
- Windows 7 is easy to use, has some great new features and it feels quick and responsive. Is this eno
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