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It has just been announced that Windows 7.0 Release Candidate (RC) has a scheduled release date of April 30 for MSDN subscribers and a general public release of May 5 (Cinco de Maya)!  This “Get Er Right” release is a very impressive operating system (O/S) and something you should look at.  The biggest improvement to me is under the hood.  Memory, service and processing operations have been drastically improved.  The amount of memory requirements has been reduced and processing speeded up along with quite a bit of use of background services.  The concept being that if you only need a service, like USB operations, while you have a USB device inserted, only fire up that service when it is appropriate.  This decreases memory size, allows for faster processing and also increases battery life.  My own experience with Windows 7 is that your computer will perform faster, use less memory and your battery will last longer than running XP. 

 

If you have held off on upgrading to Vista from XP or tried Vista to only downgrade back to XP, Windows 7.0 will absolutely win you over!  Of course, it is a no brainer upgrade from Vista.  If you are interested in learning more about the new memory management techniques being used in Windows 7.0, check out the Mark Russinovich video at http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/Going%20Deep/Mark-Russinovich-Inside-Windows-7.  Mark is a Windows kernel guru, formerly of Sysinternals, now working on the Windows 7 team and is an architect of the memory management techniques I’m talking about here.

 

Be sure to see Windows 7.0 at the next Gold Coast Users Group meeting presented by Paul George on May 14 in Boca Raton.  Check out this "Community Driven" Users Group at http://GCUsersGroup.org to get a truely unbiased learning experience.