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Originally Posted by orlok
Good to hear something positive about Win7. I may well give it a go soon. Did you have any compatibility or driver issues?
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No issues with drivers - most of my peripherals are at least a few years old (2 Epson scanners, Epson printer) and they installed without any problems. The only software compatibility issues I had were one game that was released before today's graphics cards were even thought of, and one old freeware program that's been out of development for years.
Networking is easier too. You can only use the fancy new Homegroup networking with other Win7 computers, but you can still do normal folder shares and such with all the usual permissions, and it takes about 1/5th of the time to set the permissions that it took in previous Win versions. Another bonus is that I can access my shared folder from my roommate's Mac - I could never get my XP or Vista machines to show up, and we swap music tracks because we collaborate on recordings.
The Vista sidebar dashboard thingie has been set free - you can now put the widgets anywhere on the screen. I have a nice weather gadget that I found in the online gallery. With the increased memory efficiency, you can actually afford to run some of those without slowing down the whole works.