You know I get a kick out of the Mac commercials, especially the one about Windows 7.

I am a Windows guy at heart. I’ve used Macs before and just found them to be like the moon. It’s accessible, beautiful and serves a purpose, but I wouldn’t want to be stuck on one for too long.

Frankly the fact that Windows has the largest part of the PC/Server market out there keeps me in a job. The reason so many issues are found is because so many people use it. My guess is if Linux or Mac was as cutthroat as Microsoft is, they’d be in the same predicament.

Off my soapbox and back to my ‘review’.

I’m a geek at heart and couldn’t wait to get Windows 7 installed on our home machine. Normally I would have backed all my data up to a hard drive even though I’m using Carbonite Online Backup but I was like a retard at the Chuckie Cheese.

I put the disk in, selected Install and was promptly halted because of a weird message. Basically it said that I could not upgrade a 32 bit machine to a 64 bit machine and a 64 bit machine to a 32 bit machine. So the upgrade crapped out on a dual architecture disk (i.e. a disk that had both the 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows 7).

So I thought, “That’s not gonna stop me.” I just did a fresh install. Windows copied all of my important data to the windows.old directory and literally I was done in 20 minutes. If this were Windows XP, I’d probably still be doing updates because it would have taken me 20 hours to download the driver for my NIC.

I created all the users again and started moving files back to where we needed them and then I damn near fell asleep.

More to come…though I did get Avast A/V installed this morning.

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