OS and Otherwise

Well, I’ve done it.  Bowed down to my master… I pre-orded Windows 7.

As you command, Darth...uh.. Mr. Gates

I would have liked to wait a little longer, but I got sucked in by the pricing.  Ideally, I would want to wait until a few patches are out, or even until SP1.  That way I won’t have to deal with all of the inevitable bugs.  But $110 for Home Premium?  Yeah, right.  And with Pirate Bay treading uneasy waters, the 58% discount was really my best option.  Well, I look forward to working thorough he bugs and glitches as they come!

But seriously, Windows 7 looks fairly decent.  A few of my fellow interns have played with the Release Candidate, and they seem to really enjoy it.  Apparently, its an XP frame with Vista dressings, and all the lessons learned from Vista.  I’m fine with that.  It will be nice to have a more nimble machine then anyways.

Somewhat related, Google announced Chrome OS, their stab at the operating system market.  I love Google, and I am very excited to see this OS.  I will definitely be dual-booting into Chrome.  However, I don’t think it will ever really take off beyond dual booting and netbooks (if those stick around).  It seems to be geared entirely to getting the computer on and online- great for the two environments I mentioned, but it doesn’t appear to be robust enough to handle mainstream desktop computing, nevertheless enterprise solutions.  I would love to be proved wrong, though.  Let’s see what you can do Google!

In other news, I continued clearing out my hard drive.  By getting rid of shadow files, out of date backups, reducing my recycling bin to a tenth of its size and clearing out some Virtual Machines I had forgotten, I was able to add yet another 31 GB of free space.  I’m awesome.  Now I can load that up with alternate operating system!

“If life give you lemons- hey, free lemons!”

-Andrew Mederos