Windows 7 is coming soon, how soon October 22nd at 12:01 AM you can get your copy. If you pre ordered it will be shipped that day. The family pack will be available that day too. Now lets face it most people will not get windows 7 by going to a store and buying a upgrade copy of windows 7. They will get it with a new computer.
If you are going to buy it you need to think witch one will suet your needs. The ones you have the choice of are Windows 7 Home Premium, Windows 7 Professional, and Windows 7 Ultimate. There is a good chart to figure out witch one is for you on Paul Thurrot’s Supper site for Windows. The other thing you might want to decide on is 32 bit windows or 64 bit windows. You might wonder which one is should I get. Well it decides what you want to do. If you do a lot of video editing or Photo editing then you might want more then 4 GB of RAM you should go to 64 Bit windows then your limit is up in the hundreds of GB’s of RAM. Though if you are going to do 64 bit you might want to make sure there is drivers for thought's devices. If they were bought in the last year or two most likely they do and if they have the compatible with windows 7 sticker on the box like this
To read more about the windows 7 logo program click here. If you go with 32 bit everything that worked in Vista 32 should work just fine. But just remember if you want more then 4 GB of RAM you need 64 bit windows.
Windows 7 has a lot better interface with a redesign start menu. The quick lunch bar that has become more important. Think of it like a favorites for your applications if you always use firefox pin it to the task bar and it is always there. Windows now minimize into there icon on the task bar to make it easier to find the window you are looking for much like OS X. The start search is improved as well in windows 7. If you have XP you may have never herd of this. For me that's what one me over to get Vista. Start menu search makes it so much easier to find things in you computer you just type what you are looking for and it finds it (as long as it is in your computer or network).
If you install Windows 7 on an existing computer like a laptop you might see a speed increase and a an extra bit of battery life. This is because Windows 7 uses less rescores then Vista or even XP so if you are looking for a reason to upgrade I think that is more then enough reason to upgrade to windows 7.
Wile I'm sure everyone will not probably go out and buy windows 7 and will most likely get it with a new PC it should be noted that if you are not looking into a new computer but want to get a bit of performance out of your current computer get a upgrade copy of windows 7. Just remember to format the drive and install windows 7.
-Mike