Windows 7 to overtake Windows XP

If you haven’t heard, Windows 7 is now officially an RC or Release Candidate Build. That means in reality, it shouldn’t be long before the consumers start seeing the marketing campaign, the bells and the whistles and it becoming an option for your next computer.
Should you care though? To some people, Windows Vista was a big bloated and poorly performing Operating System which received very little positive coverage. To others, like myself that perhaps dont play a lot of games and always had modern hardware lying around, I never had many problems with Vista.
By Microsoft’s own admission though, Windows 7 is built upon Vista, it’s not an entirely new Operating System at all, just a more streamlined, polished and consumer friendly version of Vista. Is that a good thing though, likening it to Vista? I guess time will tell, but for those of you that haven’t seen Windows 7 in action yet, let’s say that yes it looks a lot like Vista with the flashy Aero Interface. But it’s so much better than Vista, that it won’t take long for Windows 7 to overtake Windows XP in the popularity stakes.
Having used Windows 7 myself for a while now, there’s many “little” changes that make it overall a much more rewarding experience than Vista, or XP ever was. Subtle changes to the way desktop wallpapers are applied, a brand new Windows Taskbar (which of course we will cover in our training videos). A new feature called Libraries. And did we mention that it’s much, much faster than Vista ever was? From my perspective, I’d say, imagine Windows Vista running at Windows XP speed…add some new features and you have Windows 7.