Last night I went along to what has supposed to be a user group presentation type thing on Windows 7, Server 2008 R2 and why we should consider upgrading to them.
Unfortunately, the pe[rson|ople] who were supposed to present we unable to at the last moment, but thankfully Viral Tarpara stepped up to the plate and gave us his spin on these operating platforms, many thanks to Viral :oD
By his own admission, Viral is not a server person, and he did not have a pre-fabricated deck to present from, so the server side was a little light on detail. however his sections on Windows 7 client were very complete indeed.
While Windows 7 has clearly had a lot of work done on it (millions of lines of code removed I’m told…..no wonder it runs quicker !), I am still not yet convinced that I should move to it. most of the features seem to shave a click or two off here and there, which, while is progress, is not going to generate vast amounts of additional time in my working day.
My reason not to upgrade may also be something to do with the fact I am still only mid-way through the migration to Vista on the desktop here…..and I don’t fancy going through it all so soon again just yet.
For anyone who wanted more information on the application compatibility toolkit and shims, Chris Jacksons blog has a lot of useful information, and there is a very cool live demo video of Chris fixing an application at Teched 2008 in Barcelona (the video is on the second page, upper right hand corner).
