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Thinking About Upgrading
First up, nice forum you guys have here. Looks good and has plenty of good info.
But anyway, next week I start university and I might be getting Windows 7 through MSDNAA for free. Now, I have a laptop that is currently running a 32bit version of Vista premium edition which runs everything I need well enough except I really want Windows 7 for the extra performance and since it's going to be free. Also, I'm wanting to 64bit version too just to be clear.
But before I dive in and upgrade to it I have several questions I'm hoping some people here can help me with. These being:
1. Is it worth upgrading to interms of how stable and how many programs work on it without any problems.
I'm doing web development and so the following programs will be used on a daily basis.
MS Visual Professional 2008
Microsoft Expression 3
Microsoft Office 2007
Adobe Photoshop, flash, dreamweaver, fireworks etc
Bullguard Anti-virus software
Audacity
Sony Sound forge
2. I take it I'll still be able to download all the Acer programs that came with my laptop from their site. Just wondering if anyone else here has upgraded their laptop and to download all the pre-installed programs again.
3. How do games run on Windows 7? Mainly Steam games like CSS, TF2, DoD:S and Battlefield 2.
4. Will it be possible to upgrade the W7 without having to format my HDD which will probably save me having to download and hunt for all my DVD with my files on them.
5. I take it the battery life on laptops is increased in Windows 7 when compared to Windows Vista?
6. Can I still revert back to Vista should I need to for what ever reason?
I'll probably have more questions later but these are my primary concerns. Cheers.