Windows 7

As time pases, I find operating systems less and less relevant. A couple of weeks back I upgraded to Windows 7, to follow are my observations.

I experiment heavily with my computers. As a result, every 6 months or so, my personal machine become becomes so unstable I need to rebuild. A couple of weeks a go I decided to use Windows 7 on my latest rebuild.

As I have observed before, everytime I rebuild I need less and less applications. Long a go I moved to web mail and as time has progressed I use more and more web applications. For example, for music I use Pandora, for documents I user Google docs, for RSS feeds I use Google reader, and so on.

Although I have only been using Windows 7 for a couple of weeks, I am pretty happy with the OS. Windows 7 uses less resources and has a number of UI improvements. I really like the navigation and windows explorer changes, they are intuitive and work well. Vista was a dog and most of the time it just got in my way.

I wonder what the international version of Windows 7 is like, the one for developing countries. If the "light version" has the same UI improvements and uses even less resources, I imagine the OS will be a big winner.