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Windows 7: update

Tuesday, July 28th, 2009

There is an old saying – “no news is good news”, and that applies here.  Windows 7 has been stable (I didn’t know Microsoft knew what that word meant), and has not resulted in any issues.

To the contrary – I used to have to run certain programs from another machine because Vista could not run the program – but Windows 7 compatability mode is a huge improvement and the old programs work once again – Nice!

Also, if you have a machine capable of it, you can run Microsoft Virtual PC 2007.  Now we do a fair amount with Virtualization – but this virtual machine is fasssst! Again, nice to those who have a need. In fact – the virtual machine is faster than the machine it is running on.

Windows 7 was released to manufacturing this week, so expect to start seeing it on a computer near you.