We have been running Windows 7 for several months. As a Microsoft partner, we received our copies of the operating system ahead of the public. There are a few things that I have found that I really appreciate about the operating system:

1) Bottom right hand corner includes time and date. I never know what the date is, and always found myself “mousing over” the clock to find out what the date was… now I don’t have to, the date is always in the bottom right hand corner of my screen

2) Connect to VPN in 3 clicks. Network access sits in the tray beside the clock. One click opens a network panel, 2nd click on the VPN connection, 3rd click to connect. I don’t save my password, so still have to enter that, but this process is much more streamlined

3) General network connectivity. My notebook barely knew about my home network. I needed to print. I asked it to print from a shared printer on my home network. Windows 7 paused, reflected, downloaded and installed a driver, and then let me print. It was refreshingly easy.

4) Last night, one of my computers updated automatically (it is a test machine, not managed, automatic updates). When I logged into it today, it told me it had been updated, and then reopened all the programs and documents that were open before it decided to update itself. That was refreshing.

These are just 4 things I thought of while working late tonight. I thought I would tell you about them. Customers have been asking about Windows 7, asking if it is _that_ better than Vista… and while I never really had an issue with Vista, I have to say yes, it is better. It is a very nice operating system.