Tonight at midnight (maybe I should say tomorrow, I don’t know) Microsoft starts selling retail copies of Windows Seven with events all over the world.

Actually this is no big deal for me. I’ve been using pre-release versions Windows Seven since the end of last year and loving it. Even the final version is no big news; as a MSDN subscriber I have that for almost two months now.

Windows Seven is what Windows Vista should have been. To be frank, I never liked Vista – you will not find a word I wrote praising it. I not alone in my dislike of Vista, check what Bill Gates said:

http://gizmodo.com/342920/holy-crap-did-bill-gates-just-say-windows-sucks

On the other hand, Windows Seven is simply great.

Windows Seven installed quickly and flawlessly in all the computers I tested, both as clean installs and as upgrade from Vista. It’s fast, stable and uses fewer resources than Vista. UAC – those “security” dialog boxes that come from time to time are much rarer due to some now obvious optimizations so I now leave it turned on. For instance, UAC does not come up if called from the OS itself, like Control Panel applets.

Everything that you can think of is better and faster. Details, something I consider very important in everything I uses are very well thought, which points to a mature and well tested product. As a matter of fact, Windows Seven Beta 2 was already way better than Vista.

Aside from the upgrade price, I can’t see a reason why one shouldn’t get rid of Vista and start using Windows Seven now.

Compared to XP, it does use a more resources, but nothing that any three year old computer could not handle. Thanks to Vista, a notorious resource hog, we have quite powerful computers now. If you are still using XP, I think it’s time to upgrade the technology.