Because I work at Waggener Edstrom Worldwide (Microsoft’s main public relations agency), I’ve been hearing the buzz about Windows 7 for quite some time. I have to say that I’m pretty excited.

It promises to be a trimmed down, more nimble experience than Windows Vista. I sure hope it delivers.

I was working at a newspaper in Palm Springs, Calif., when I went through the upgrade to Vista on my work PC. The newspaper wasn’t the most up-to-date with technology and had several very old PCs with only 256 RAM (including mine).

The day after the IT guys installed Windows Vista on my machine, I couldn’t get any work done. My upgraded machine took more than 15 minutes to boot up and I couldn’t run more than two or three tasks at a time.

Luckily, I was first in line for a RAM upgrade.

I don’t think this type of scenario will take place with Windows 7. I’m really looking forward to the simpler graphic interface that uses less of my PC’s resources.

I hope Waggener Edstrom’s IT department decides to upgrade to Windows 7 soon!

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