It’s been an eventful day: among all the breaking news about Microsoft signing a search deal with Facebook and Twitter, Google doing the same with Twitter and later announcing social search, one can easily forget that today is the day that Vista gets replaced by something better: Windows 7.
As we wrote earlier, the interest for the new OS from Microsoft has been huge, making Windows 7 the biggest pre-order item in the history of Amazon UK and a perpetual trending topic on Twitter. The reactions from users and reviewers have been mostly positive, but after the lukewarm it’s-ok-but-why-should-switch-from-WinXP attempt that was Vista, the fact that people can’t wait to get their hands on Windows 7 is hardly a surprise.
And, for the most part, it’s true. Annoying security features such as UAC have been fixed in Windows 7 (you can now manually set its annoyance level), the system feels speedier and more responsive (although it really isn’t that much faster when you actually measure it (for example, boot time on both systems is pretty much the same on my computer), but it feels that way, and it’s all that matters), compatibility issues have been fixed. In short, it’s more of a really, really good service pack for Vista than a new OS, but it’s definitely enough to switch from the eight year old Windows XP.
If you’re interested in making the switch, the price is $319 for Windows 7 Ultimate, and $299 for the Professional version ($219 and $199 for the upgrade, respectively). Windows 7 Home Premium will set you back $199, and an upgrade from either Vista or XP will cost you $119.
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Windows 7 今天正式发布
今天新闻不断：在爆出了微软与facebook 、twitter签署了搜索协议，谷歌也同twitter签订了类似协议并宣布了社会性搜索之后，人们很容易忽视也是在今天，一个比Vista更优越的操作系统将其取而代之了，那就是Windows 7。
早先我们提到，人们对于微软发布的新操作系统是极其感兴趣的，这使得Windows 7 成为英国亚马逊网站历史上预定单最多的商品，twitter网上永远的时尚话题。使用者和评测人员们大多数对其反映不错，但如果考虑到人们对于vista系统的反映较为冷淡，觉得Vista系统“还凑和，没有必要更换掉XP系统”的话，人们迫不及待地想使用Windows 7就不足为怪了。
还有，很大程度上，这是事实。一些干扰安全配置，比如UAC（用户帐户控制）已经安装在Windows 7里了，现在你可以手动设置它的干扰程度。人们感觉到系统反应速度加快了，虽然实际计时的话速度可能并没有快多少。举例来说，两种操作系统的开机时间在我电脑上实验时几乎是一样的，但决定性因素是windows 7使人们感到速度加快了。同时，兼容性问题也得到了处理。简而言之，它不仅仅是一个新的操作系统，更是Vista系统一个非常非常成功的服务程序包，至少绝对可以让人们更换掉有八年历史的XP系统了。
如果想要更换操作系统的话，windows 7旗舰版售价319美元，升级价格为219美元；专业版299美元，升级价格199美元。windows 7家庭高级版199美元，升级vista或XP至windows 7的费用为119美元。
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