Yeah, I’ve been slacking on this blog.
Actually, I’ve been busy with other writing projects, consumed with Mass Effect / Mass Effect 2 and brought low by a bronchial infection. The good news is that I’m coming out of my Bioware addiction and at the tail end of this combination of cold and sinus infection.
This is just a quick post to point towards a few articles. I recently wrapped up several big projects for Maximum PC, including extensive benchmarking of Nvidia’s new 480 GTX, a review of Sapphire’s take on AMD’s Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity Edition and a roundup of Raw photo editors. Writing the article on editing raw images was great fun, but I’m not happy with the way it turned out. I waxed a little too enthusiastic, and got carried away writing it, so the fault was entirely mine — not the editors at MaxPC. That happens every now and then, if you write a lot. Not every article can be perfect, even when you have great editors. All you can do is learn from them and move on.
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I’ve been thinking about the issue of feedback in operating systems, games and applications. I’m the type of person that likes a lot of feedback. If the app seems to be sitting and thinking for some reason, I’d like some sign that it’s alive, at least, and hasn’t hung or crashed for some reason.
But how much feedback is enough? When does it become too much? Then there’s the problem of feedback accuracy. What if what you’re being told is just wrong?
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This is a first of a series of articles that are more a diary on my experience bringing up the Windows 7 RTM, and not so much a how-to – though it’s my hope that this series will help users who are looking to upgrade.
The Windows 7 RTM (release to manufacturing) is gradually making its way into the hands of users. Subscribers to Microsoft’s TechNet and MSDN already have it in hand, but it will be several months before most users can actually pick up a copy.
I’ve got a Windows 7 reference system running, and it’s humming along nicely. I don’t have much on it yet, although I just downloaded the Windows XP Mode release candidate), which I’ll be checking out for a freelance assignment.
Of course, having the shipping version in hand leads me to my next step: upgrading my primary production system to Windows 7. I’m running the Win7 release candidate now. Since it’s my production system, it’s a little complicated. So here’s what I’m doing to prep for installing Windows 7 RTM on my main machine.
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