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Success! Windows 7 Ultimate Upgrade On 3 yr Old Vista PC Is (Near) Perfection

Ralph — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:50:43 +0000

As promised, I am reporting on the results of my recent upgrade to Microsoft’s newest operating system, the numerically titled “Windows 7”. Oh and never mind that it is not technically Bill’s 7th OS, maybe he was just looking for a little numerological mojo after the PR disaster that was Vista.

Since its official release [...]

Ballmer: Windows 7 selling like hotcakes

Ralph — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 15:03:33 +0000

November 19, 2009 8:46 AM PST by Ina Fried link to original article: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10401449-56.html?tag=content;col1

Windows 7 isn’t just getting good reviews, it’s also selling well, CEO Steve Ballmer told shareholders Thursday.

Delivering opening remarks at Microsoft’s shareholder meeting, Ballmer said that Windows 7 was off to a “fantastic start.”

“We’ve already sold twice as many units as [...]

HP Laptop Gets Windows 7 Ultimate Upgrade

Ralph — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:09:29 +0000

As promised I wanted to let you know the results of UPGRADING to Windows 7 on an existing Windows Vista Laptop….

My wife had purchased a run of the mill HP laptop from the local superstore a few months ago–it had Windows Vista Premium 32bit, 3 GB RAM, and the Pentium Dual Core CPU. She was [...]

Windows 7 Installation on Four Year Old Laptop Worked Perfectly

Ralph — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:44:47 +0000

As a Microsoft Certified Partner, my company, The Computer Doctor got our Windows 7 final copy last week as the official date for the new operating system has been confirmed for October 22nd.

This old laptop will run Windows 7??? The old Compaq Presario laptop (purchased November 2005, 2GB RAM, AMD Turion 64 processor, 60 [...]

Windows XP’s Black Screen of Death and The Importance of Backups

Ralph — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 20:50:04 +0000

I was dispatched to help set up a new PC for one of my customers and perform a data transfer from his old Windows XP PC. Got the new PC all setup, programs installed, got it on the network and then booted up the old PC…and waited…and waited…until it came up with what I [...]

Windows 7: Top Ten Reasons You Want It!

Ralph — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:19:34 +0000

By the end of this year, Microsoft will have gone and done it again: they are releasing the another new operating system (OS), called WINDOWS 7. Everybody knows Bill Gates needs the money, but after the controversial release of Windows Vista in 2007, many of my customers are a little skeptical about going to Windows [...]