Windows 7

Well, at long last Microsoft have finally sorted out the RTM for Windows 7 which means it's time to have a play with it.

I got my hands on both the x86 (32bit) and x64(64bit) versions however my keys wont be turning up for about 3 months, these are purely for OEM manufacturers not for home users so it's to be expected that the keys wont be ready yet.

Anyway, I installed it on to the old Vaio laptop on Wednesday and it seems that a laptop built for Windows XP about 5 or 6 years ago (if not longer) isn't too great at running 7. No drivers and no way to download them. So that's a no go for now.

Will be updating the main PC to 7 shortly and using the rearm command until I get the key through, then I can check out all of it's new features etc. But as of now I only have access to a few things and first impressions is that it looks and feels almost the same as Vista but with a new, updated, task bar. The settings all seem similar with a few cosmetic tweaks but nothing much... it's more like Windows 98 to Windows 95 - not much difference but worth the upgrade.

Will see how it goes, the upgrade is planned for this weekend but it all depends on the workload as I can't be without my main PC for long if I have people on my back asking for work to be done.