Welcome to 2009! Apologies for the slow rate of posting over the past couple of weeks, but several projects due before Christmas kept me ‘heads down’ in the programming cave for a while.
Well, the big news to start the year off is that Microsoft will be releasing the Windows 7 Beta out to the general public today. Being 12 hours ahead of the curve here makes it a tough wait, but I am hoping to get my hands on the Beta copy by the end of today. Once I do, I will definitely be blogging my experiences with this new OS on here. Everyone at the office here knows about my abject hatred for Vista, so they are hoping that my experiences with Win7 will be a lot less vocal.
You can try and be one of the first 2.5 million registrants for the public beta at: http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/ although I have to warn you that you will have to stand in line behind me.
Here is another article on the upgrade, and here is a different take on the situation, with this correspondent hinting that Windows 7 should be marketed as the ‘final upgrade’ for Vista!
Update 11/01: After a 24 hour delay in geting the Beta due to ‘heavy load’ on the MS network, it is finally available to the general public. I have just finished downloading my copy and getting my keys and will report on my first impressions of Windows7 after I finish upgrading one of the office PC’s. Definitely a lot of bad press and reactions across the world at the perceived lack of preparedness on Microsoft’s behalf, although I think a lot of the frustration was due to the late hour!
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