I upgraded to Windows 7 Ultimate from Windows Xp Professional a week ago and after so many days of use, I can say that it’s worth the upgrade. If you are a home user then there is nothing to worry, just upgrade but for professional users who are happy with Xp, should remain happy with it unless they are sure that the software they use will work flawlessly on Windows 7 or not. I have seen any software that works on Xp, also installs and works on Windows 7. I find opera browser crashing many times on Windows 7 and I have to switch to Firefox which seems very stable. Some software’s will work but behave abnormally like Dreamweaver CS4 for example works fine but sometimes it won’t let you insert any code in code view. Similarly Adobe Photoshop CS2 which was never made for Windows 7 works perfectly without any glitch but it will always prompt you to register even if you select “Never Register”!

Apart from Software related compatibility and stability problems, Windows 7 excels in some very basic feature of an operating system and that is file browsing. Navigating to files and locating any file/folder is very easy in Windows 7. It boots faster and most important it shuts down even faster, no more ending program window blah blah… it just follow what you say it to do, shut down means shut down and I like it! A small but pleasant advancement in Windows 7 is that new pen drives will install and become ready to use almost instantly.

Microsoft has included a nice looking media center which can index all your media files and present it to you in a nice way. All’s well but I don’t like two things about it, first the sound it makes when you start it and second is audio equalizer which seems to be absent or its located somewhere so deep that I still can’t find it.

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