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The 11/12 speaker was Richard Miller who spoke on the subject of the new operating system, Windows 7. He used the actual program and demonstrated some of the new feature. He was very positive about the new system as opposed to VISTA. It seems that Microsoft has cleaned up most of the problems with VISTA in this new system. One of the big advantages was that 2 programs can be displayed side-by-side on the monitor allowing easy transfer of information between programs.
There were many questions and comments as to length of time to install as an update. From the comments and Richard’s reply was that VISTA would take approximately 2 hours after wiping out the old operating system and about 5-6 hours for XP. I remarked that I had seen Windows 7 for sale at Costco for $179.00 for the Home Version. Richard recommended Ultimate, which has many more features.
The bottom line was that if your current system is operating well, leave it alone. The cost to install Windows 7, including labor would exceed the cost of a new computer that had Windows 7 pre-installed.
He stressed the importance of not trying to upgrade, but starting from a clean system.
