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Windows 7 Upgrade Can Take Nearly a Day
Eugen writes "A Microsoft Software Engineer has posted the results of tests the company performed on the upgrade time of Windows 7. The metric used was total upgrade time across different user profiles (with different data set sizes and number of programs installed) and different hardware profiles. A clean 32-bit install on what Microsoft calls 'high-end hardware' should take only 30 minutes. In the worst case scenario, the process will take about 1220 minutes. That second extreme is not a typo: Microsoft really did time an upgrade that took 20 hours and 20 minutes. That's with 650GB of data and 40 applications, on mid-end hardware, and during a 32-bit upgrade. We don't even want to know how long it would take if Microsoft had bothered doing the same test with low-end hardware. The other interesting point worth noting is that the 32-bit upgrade is faster on a clean install than a 64-bit upgrade, regardless of the hardware configuration, and is faster on low-end hardware, regardless of the Data Profile. In the other six cases, the 64-bit upgrade is faster than the 32-bit upgrade."
Why not just wait until Windows 7 SP2 arrive? Windows XP is not as good Linux, or OSX, but it's better then any "beta operating system".
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There is no reason why any business user cannot get their work done on a mac desktop or laptop these days and modern iMacs have a larger screen with higher resolution than most typical PC desktops. Snow Leopard now includes Exchange 2007 support for email, contacts and appointments. Any legacy apps that you cannot find an equivalent on OS X right now could be run through citrix desktop client for OS X. Not only will they avoid the headaches of having to keep up to date on their virus definitions but they also will not have to worry about their laptop working with projector for their presentation. Execs get the added bonus of being able to create presentations with more polish with Keynote than you can accomplish out of the box with Powerpoint.
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or just use the DownThemAll extension in Firefox. It fetches multiple segments in parallel and can optionally perform a hash check to make sure the download was good. Seriously one of the best download tools I've ever seen.