Windows 7 RC1 Ultimate will shutdown every 2 hours from March 2010

Like many MSDN members I’ve been running windows 7 for a long time now but in RC version. I’ve had the new full version of Windows 7 for a while but have not bothered installing it. (Now is the time RC versions will start to stop functioning correctly from March!)

Last night I took the plunge and installed The latest Windows 7 Ultimate onto a new partition and used the excellent ‘Windows Easy Transfer’ program to move all my mail accounts, personal folders, files, network shares and settings over to the newly installed OS. It was great though I still had to install all the usual apps like Office 2007, Visual Studio 2008, FTP clients etc. etc. etc.

I had been using Windows XP Professional for years and avoided Vista like the plague – The good news is that Windows 7 rocks! There are so many useful and intuitive features that save time and improve the pleasure of working in Windows 7 – the only thing that I miss from XP (though I’m sure I’ll find some shortcut some time soon) is the ability to right click and open Explorer instead of File Manger – no big deal.

To date I have experienced a couple of crashes in Windows 7 RC1 in Internet Explorer – though this was down to plug-ins – so far touch wood, with the Full version installed, plenty of IE plug-ins and a fully loaded development environment with services like MSSQL Server 2008 running, my PC is very fast and rock solid.

Still got to install PUTTY and a few other apps for managing remote servers but I LOVE WINDOWS 7. Sad!

Anybody still running Windows 7 RC1 should switch to a full operating system as the RC1 will start shutting down every 2 hours from March 2010 – and it will not save your open files before doing so!