Some of you know that I am a bit of an Apple fanatic. I often confess that I have converted more people to Apple than I have to Christ, which is not a good thing for a clergyman to confess.
Some of you know that, in another life, I was a Microsoft beta tester, always living on the bleeding edge with Bill Gates as my hero. I regularly went to the Microsoft conventions to learn what they had coming down the pike, and I persuaded a good many businesses to switch to Microsoft’s tools from the behemoth that IBM once was. When I switched to Apple, it was like Saul becoming Paul. I fell in love with a world I had not imagined possible.
All of which provides context for my report to you of how impressed I am with Windows 7. It takes a lot for Microsoft to impress me nowadays, but I have to concede that, with this new release, they have hit the ball out of the park. I won’t give a review here since professionals do that far better than me, but I can tell you that for the first time in over a decade, I have the sense that Microsoft has delivered a product that gives me that “Wow” experience that I once had every few months as a business customer of theirs. Windows 7 matches Mac OS X in most areas that matter, and introduces some real sizzle that has me thinking I might use my old Windows laptop for work that matters, rather than relegating it to the dusty corner where it has been solely because there remain a few applications that simply must be run on Windows if one is to maintain one’s sanity.
So that’s my confession. I’ll let you know if I repent of it in the coming weeks.
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