I never thought I’d see the day when I would upgrade past Windows XP, but it is here. Windows 7 RC is nice; it is almost bug free, fairly well organized, supports Direct X 10, and seems to support most of my hardware. Additionally, I felt no growing pains with my current level of RAM, and system resources. It seems to be the best of XP and Vista put together. But here’s the downside…
As they say “all good things must come to an end” and Windows 7 RC is no more on my system. After the fifth day of daily BSODs (Blue Screens Of Death) I couldn’t take it anymore and wiped the system and put XP back on. While I realize that this was not the final shipping product, it’s hard to make an unbiased assessment of a product that crashes this frequently. Here’s the rub, maybe the retail version will have these bugs worked out. If they don’t, how mad will I be having spent $100 for something this unstable. For a public release of a RC I wasn’t very impressed with the frequent crashes. I like Windows 7, but I’m not ready to plunk down my hard earned money especially with the experience I’ve had with it so far. Once again Microsoft has produced a product that I won’t trust until Service Pack 1. For those that bought early… I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you.
