Yatta!

[hsapiens]

I have a new computer! (Well, a new CPU.) It runs Windows 7 -- and I'm favorably impressed. It's well-designed, it runs ALL of my favorite freeware downloads, it runs the 32-bit software I already own, and it runs all of my hardware of varying ages. Sad that this is a surprise but I'm grateful nonetheless. If I can just figure out how to make Windows Explorer show me the file extensions, I'll be a happy camper. (I'm sure I'll get used to the loss of menus in various applications but I'm slow at adapting to this particular change.)

I cannot say the same for Word 2007. What in the world did they do the menus? More importantly -- WHY?!? It took me far too long to figure out how to find, "Save As..."

In a perfect world, I'd have purchased a 27" iMac, a brand new license of Photoshop CS4 for Mac for it, and had two huge monitors. (I dream of having all the Photoshop palettes on one screen and my graphic on another.) Alas, money was the determining factor so I chose to go with a Windows box. I'm not unhappy, though, as my new toy is zippy and works with my very nice quality speakers, my printer, my monitor, my array of external hard drives, and my iPod.

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[superl99.livejournal.com]

I bloody HATE Office 2007. It's the least intuitive and annoying piece of shite ever. Not to mention that you have to make an effort to save every document as a special file type just to make it readable by anyone who doesn't have 2007. This isn't really new, but between 97 and 2003 they had managed to keep it consistently compatible without any special tricks. Bastards.
Glad you have a new shiny though! I haven't upgraded my Vista (*spit*) machine to 7 yet because I haven't had time- even Mama is ahead of me there, although she cheated by getting Karen to install and set it up for her! ;)

[hsapiens.livejournal.com]

I completely agree -- and I've only had to use Word as yet. I've been a big fan of Office and greeted every upgrade with happiness. All of a sudden, I completely get why my German colleagues were flummoxed at trying to save a simple file so that I could open it. I have a lot more patience now. :)

Run, don't walk, to Windows 7. I've only heard bad things about Vista but Win 7 is a winner for me. If I had to take a guess, I'd say that Win 7 is more XP-based. That's a wild guess but it operates much like XP and it's compatible with everything I've thrown at it thus far. It feels like a Mac! ;) There are still some things I'm getting used to but it's not so very different.

I think you should cheat and fly Karen over there to upgrade your computer for you. ;) (Karen does report that upgrading to Win 7 was the smoothest upgrade she ever did.)