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Posted on August 31, 2011 by

Windows Seven Review

Windows 7 has been purely inspired and pretty much designed by the public. Microsoft have put many new things into this OS.

Some pictures below will show you a few things they have incorperated.

Task Bar Navigation:

Above you can see that I have multiple IE browsers up… on Vista and below this would have cluttered up the task bar, making it murder to find the page you want. But now 7 has something to make it more organised and easy.

And now…

all you have to do is highlight the IE icon on the taskbar and all your windows appear and you can just click on one and it’d bring up that page. (This happens to all programs that you may have opened more than once, not just microsoft stuff)

Snap size programs:

This was a little hard to describe but if you have see nthe TV adverts for win 7 you proberbly know what I’m on about.

Below should be a picture of what I’m talking about.

It’s quite hard to see but if you look carefully around the edges you can see an outline. This outline sybolizes the region where you window will go. In my case the IE window with Yahoo! in it. This makes it much easier to size your windows and to organise them efficiently.

This can be properly seen on this advert:

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnolmuFgW7w]

Now I’m going to do a few ratings on how I think the operating system performs:

Speed: 9/10

Much faster than Vista. To compare with the Vista OS, on Vista it took around 30 secs to 45 secs to boot up and log me in. Now on Windows 7 it takes 20 – 30 secs to boot up. Shut down is also so much faster. Vista = 15 secs… Windows 7 = 5 secs….. So there is a huge improvement. Also when running programs or browsing the internet you feel like this Operating System is very smooth and just does what you want (most of the time)

Program Compatablilty: 8/10

Most Programs that run on Vista will run on Windows 7 (32-bit) very well. Though (64-bit) has a few problems such as many drivers which had worked on Vista 64 don’t work now, but this should hopefully be resolved within the next month.

Ease of Use: 9/10

It is very easy to understand, though does take a little adjusting. Especially if you’ve just come from XP to use 7. Many of the features are hard to understadn how they work. Such as the ‘Snap’ thing. It took quite a bit of time just to take the print screen of it s I didn’t know exactly how to do it.

How much better is it from XP or Vista: 4/10

Really, there isn’t too much of a difference just a lot of extra features. The main fact people want ot have this OS is that it is super quick on loading anything.

Requirments to Run: 8/10

Any decent computer should be able to run Windows 7 though older PC’s may struggle. Below are the list of requirements to run Windows 7:

1 gigahertz (GHz) or faster 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor

1 gigabyte (GB) RAM (32-bit) or 2 GB RAM (64-bit)

16 GB available hard disk space (32-bit) or 20 GB (64-bit)

DirectX 9 graphics device with WDDM 1.0 or higher driver

Price for the OS: 2/10

I’m very suprised on how much they’re charging for this. In my Country (UK) a single 1 use lisence can be found form around £63 for the upgrade pack. Because Vista was so shoddy I was hoping for 7 to be around £20-30 for an upgrade from Vista. I was a little dissapointed.

Overall: 6/10

Many things have improved but all it is is a lot faster and a lot more managable than XP and vista. It’s alot of money and I don’t think it’s worth it. Though if you think you want to be modern, up to date and have a fast smooth OS for once I guess is buy it. It’s much better than XP and Vista.

*Tip for buying Windows 7:

If you have a Son/Daughter over 14, you may be able to buy the student edition which goes for around £50 giving you a huge saving of £110 of that Edition (Windows 7 Ultimate). Though you can only buy one per student. Plus, a portion of the money can go towards the school your child is at.

Don’t go pretending that your a student though, these sites do checks to see if this person acturlly exsists and have that same records as you.

Hope I helped you a little in your way in deciding whether you want to buy Windows 7 or not.

Thank You for Reading.

Written by dndewar