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Not to impressed with Win 7 yet
Ok, I have been testing the capabilities of Windows 7, both x86 and x64 for quite some time now, (since Nov 2008), starting with the first release v7-7000 to the latest v 7-7100 on as many as 6 different computers.
Some old (x86) hardware platforms and a couple of fairly new 64 bit platform hardware. 3 Laptops and 3 Desktops.
I use some of the most complex software you can imagine, Design Engineering and Diagnostics, Like Auto Desk Inventor 2008 (pretty expensive) and CST 2006 (Very Expensive), as well as Network Monitoring software and pretty high levels of Security software and Hardware.
I have been informing Microsoft on a regular basis (like I hope all members here have been) about bugs, glitches, problems and especially crashes (Send Feedback links). And I have noticed quite a few improvements on many issues I have submitted.
But, The latest Windows 7 release still has a lot of glitches and bugs , and a few driver issues. Now no insult to Microsoft Developers, or Hardware Manufactures and Driver Developers, cause "IT IS BETA", and a lot of work is still needed to make it more stable. And I do run Debugging to find out what is causing the problems.
But I recommend that everyone use a multi boot foundation or at least a separate hard drive or partition to save or maintain all of you documents, files or program completion operations. Cause just like Windows (all since v 1.1) from the beginning, "s*(t" happens and you could loose any or all files on your operating systems partition. On a regular basis I never went to the latest release for my work till the SP1 pack was released, Including Win 98 (till SE), Win 2000(till sp1), Windows XPP(sp1) and to this day I do not use Vista(cause it is still full of crapy bugs). There is no such thing a a perfect operating system.