Windows 7 – Will It Make My Christmas?
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As you may have previously read, my battle with my laptop running Windows Vista is a bloody and long one, and has led to several embarrassing situations (the less said about the times I told friends I’d be at their house in two minutes, clicked ‘Shut Down’ and been half an hour late, the better). I can really feel it culminating, and the urge to splurge and get myself a technology-related early Christmas present is almost impossible to ignore. My plan to save up for a Mac may have beaten into second place, though…
According to The Guardian, the new Windows OS, Windows 7 (another storming Ronseal title, much better than Vista) works faster than the OS it replaces on most computers. This, for me, is reason enough to upgrade. The basic Home Edition retails at £79.99, while Apple Macs start at around £799. That’s ten times the expense. Is it worth me saving up for a solution to a problem that could be solved very quickly and with much less of an impact on my wallet? True, it wouldn’t solve everything (my cheap-as-chips laptop must shoulder some of the blame), but it’s a start, isn’t it?
The only thing really standing in my way is the fact that I might be forced to have a Windows Party and partake in the kind of forced jollity displayed in the publicity campaign mounted by Microsoft in the run-up to its release. They come across as much like a social skills seminar as they do a Windows tutorial. Yuck.
So what is it to be? Expense, scrimping and saving, or throw my own Windows Party?
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You’ve missed the boat in regards to house party, as far as I’m aware, I got in there as soon as I heard, got a copy of 7 Ultimate in the post. For free.
Lucky you! Was your party better than the one in the video?
Sorry Danny, I don’t understand why your Vista PC taking a while to shut down delays you leaving your house?!
And no, you wouldn’t be forced to have a launch party – they’re just for those that got sent a free copy of the Ultimate edition of Windows 7 (worth £230) in return for hosting an event for them.
I don’t trust it to turn itself off… I have to watch until it’s totally blank!
Missed the boat on the Windows Launch Party then. Every cloud…
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