(No wonder a raft of books about Windows 7 is on the way. It’s an all-day hassle that’s nobody’s idea of fun. Upgrading from Vista is easy, but upgrading from Windows XP involves a “clean install” moving all your programs and files off the hard drive, installing Windows 7, then copying everything back on again. There are three ugly aspects of Windows 7, so let’s get them out of the way up front. This time around, it was, “Polish, optimize and streamline what we’ve already got.” That seems to be the industry mantra for 2009 see also Apple’s Snow Leopard release in August and it’s fantastic news. In fact, 10 categories of warnings now pile up quietly in a single, unified Action Center and don’t interrupt you at all.īest of all, Windows 7 represents a departure from Microsoft’s usual “success is measured by the length of the feature list” philosophy. Item 3: Nagging Windows 7 is far less alarmist than Vista, which freaked out about every potential security threat.

They’re no steeper than Vista’s three years ago (the standard edition requires 1 gigabyte of memory and 1 gigahertz processor more is better).

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