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"Happy New Year. For a long time Windows users have had to look across with envy at the oh so superior Mac users who actually enjoy using their computers. Has Windows 7 changed all this? We chat about some of our experiences below."
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www.gmail-backup.com - Backs up Google's Gmail by downloading all your emails from Google's servers to your local PC as simple text files you can open in any appropriate client.
Houser price calculator - A simple house price calculator tool provided by L and C mortgages. Enter the date and value of the property's last valuation and its approximate location in the UK and the calculator will estimate a current value for you.
VMWare Player - One feature of Windows 7 that can be particularly useful is the Windows XP virtualisation. However not all processors support this. The VMWare Player allows you to put as many different virtual machines on your computer as it will fit. Install Linux. Install test machines to try things out on. A very useful, clever and simple solution.
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Windows 7 (Windows heaven?)
We've installed Windows 7 on four machines here now. One on a big Opteron server and the rest on very desperate Toshiba Portege tablet PCs. By very desperate I mean they were barely usuable. From new they ran so slowly and in such a cumbersome fashion that you could have forgiven the operators for taking a big hammer to them rather than using the more standard touch-screen interface.
I have heard some commentators alleging that the project managers for Windows Vista insisted that everything should be testable automatically rather than using people to test the programming. As a result, though Vista does not even pass the 'sniff' test (i.e. as soon as you use it you can tell it's off) it was released as if it were a great step forward for the industry. And in some ways it was, particularly in security and robustness. But you could tell it wasn't built with human users in mind.
Things have changed philosophically with Windows 7. The name; nothing pretentious or romantic, just a minimalist number; and that, in some ways, tells us much about the new OS. They've tidied it up. Made it put the user first. Cleared out that sense of bloat so prevalent in Vista. Reduced the amount of resources it uses. The tablet PCs we installed it on now have new life, they are fast, responsive and are a pleasure to use. The Opteron server goes like a rocket.
After 10 years of amazing changes in hardware and software Microsoft have finally delivered for Windows; a sound OS which has been crafted with care.
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