Windows 7 is a major upgrade from Windows XP, if this is the route you are taking, you missed out on a lot of new features brought about by Vista, and you might be a little overwhelmed at first at everything that has changed in 7. However, if you were a Vista user, then the only things to really take note of, from a users perspective, is that the Start bar has received a major reworking. Getting familiar with the new start bar is pretty easy and will come naturally after a few days for most people.
Under the hood, as they say, is what most people are interested in, because "Vista was so full of bugs, etc." However, I've used Vista extensively with little to no trouble. Vista's main faults were driver signing enforcement (users who were early adopters, found that they didn't have good enough hardware and drivers to match), and a new strange user interface. Networking also went from simple in XP, to quite a pain in the rump if you didn't have a solid understanding of networking. This upset quite a few people, because XP worked just fine, and Vista ran really slow on their computer and wanted to eat up all their ram, resources, etc, and they couldn't set their network settings as easily.
Enter Windows 7. It's Vista, with all the patches, and instead of just assuming everyone has a super beast computer, it adapts resource usage based on your hardware. So install it on a Super Computer, it will actually utilize the resources available (unlike Windows XP, but just like Vista). Likewise, place Win7 on a netbook, and it will become very conservative with resource usage (like Windows XP, NOT like Vista).
Other than that, Win7 is very much like Vista.
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I have viewed this a couple of times and held off on responding. However I wanted to provide some feedback and I hope this will be helpful.
I was expecting and hoping for more. I read the first paragraph and thought, "this is for me." I work with Vista but am not a big fan and am definitely an "XP user." As I read further though there wasn't anything unique or very informative. Definitely not what I had hoped after the first paragraph and assumed with the time you have had with it.
The article was good overall and I am glad it was published. I am glad I read it and thanks for your efforts. I just wanted to post this (I think I may have been the "wasn't helpful" vote) because I was hoping for more. Of course it takes time to write a great article and can be hard to make it stand out. I hope you have thoughts on a topic for another article and I look forward to it. I just also hope that this comment will help you as you work on it. Good luck and I hope this will be helpful.
Of course also remember that it is just my opinion and thoughts. :)
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