The Rookie Coder

Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft saying sorry

Hello

It has been quite a while since my last post but this one I really felt I needed to get off my chest. Microsoft have just released Windows 7 and as of yet, nothing bad has really been said. They really seem to have took a little more time with this one and it really seems to have paid off. At the moment  I still got Vista running on my workstation purely because it works. But I  now feel it is time to make a change over.

Why would I change over to quicky?…. Because I get it free now. Microsoft have allowed education licences on all of their software for the college at which I am currentlying attending so I get all of the old software and all of the new stuff, all totally free. This was always one of my big problems with Microsoft, they wanted money for people to even learn how to use their software but now it really seems to be changing, maybe they finally realised that nobody really uses the lab computers, we all use laptops and need to install it ourselves.

Now I have everything I ever needed for developing on the Microsoft platform.. granted in a few years I’l have to pay when I leave the academic world.. But thats not happening for a long, long time.

Thanks Microsoft you finally fixed the two things I hated

- Making academics pay to learn
- Made an alright OS