Ok I was a little late and I finally migrated to Windows 7! I was using Vista for about 11 months and apart from eating lot of resources, never had a serious issue worth complaining. Only issue I had was with my old Creative sound card driver (which Creative didn't release any driver compatibke with Vista) which later fixed by switching to kX Project WDM Audio Driver, which was awesome. Ok lets go for Windows 7 again. I was little lazy to backup all the docs and settings and go for a clean installation ;) So I thought of upgrading instead. I had Vista ultimate so it really didn't matter. Only problems I had was making nearly 17GB free space on C: drive and upgrade Vista to SP1. (I never apply SPs unless absolute necessary, instead live with regular updates. Why? I don't know :) When GTA4 required XP SP3, I just tweaked registry and played the game.) Upgrading was really smooth, took around 2 hours to complete but without a single mess. Not a single issue? Alright I had to find new drivers for GPU, sounds, WiFi adpater and web cam. Nvidia got an updated driver. D-Link got a driver update, but I had to update the firmware also to make it work. Logitech got an updated driver for web cam. Only headache I had was with sounds. My old (but great) Creative Audigy doesn't have any official driver after XP. This time what I found was "SB Audigy Series Support Pack" by daniel_k. How is it? Simply amazing! (Thank u very much Daniel!)
Ok, what I feel about the new OS. Simply put - SUPERB! No kidding you can feel it's fast, mostly because I worked with Vista for neally 1 year. There're some great features under hood like easy wireless setup menu, new themes (like old times), redefined system tray, easy access to screen resolutions, new calc, mspaint and wordpad with office style ribbon. I'm glad I was able to work with old Creative card with full features. Ok I'm still digging up whats new. I'll make a full review about Windows 7 soon.
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