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From: Eric L	10/31/2009 3:00:40 PM
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ThinkDigit's Review of Windows 7 ... ... is a pretty good high level overview with representative screen shoots of Win 7 in 5 parts and worth a read in its entirety. Opening paragraphs only are snipped below: >> Windows 7 Review Kshitij Sobti thinkdigit October 27, 2009 thinkdigit.com While Windows 7 has only now launched, it barely feels like that. This time Microsoft has involved testers in such an extensive way, that for many people Windows 7 is already a familiar experience, after all, it has been around for nearly a year. Windows 7 has changed little since its first beta release back in January 2009, which is all the more remarkable as it means that the operating system was nearly done by then. They have abandoned the search for a clever name, and gone for a clever operating system instead! The biggest advantage of the extended public beta testing period of Windows 7 has been to the people who "tested" it, and essentially got a free licensed version of Windows for a year. However a lot of the feedback and bugs discovered during the beta period of Windows 7 was actually accommodated into Release Candidate which came afterwards. While Windows 7 is essentially a minor update to Windows Vista, it has some significant and positive changes which have turned the utter failure of Vista to the critical acclaim it has received. Nearly every version of Windows has been considered to be too bloated for its time, and for the very first time, we have a version of windows which can run on a lower configuration than its predecessor! ... [snip rest] ### - Eric -

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