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Win 7 – My First Look

Over the weekend I installed Win7 on Virtual PC (VPC). I actually wanted to install it as a secondary OS, but my home machine had a failed PSU. So I installed into into a safe VPC.

The initial install was not too different. A flashy opening screen and a pretty fast install happened. I did not time it, but I don’t think the install itself was a lot faster than Vistas. Maybe a little but not drastically.

A reboot or so later, the system was ready.

The startup has this new flashy animated logo. But the speed of the boot was really amazing, especially on a VPC.  If they can maintain the boot speed or make it better at RTM it would be a great thing.

And they have some very good wallpapers :).

A new blog

I have been silent for sometime now. It all started due to the Holidays and then got a little too busy at office to catch up after the holidays.

I also started off a new blog that discusses issues related to personal finance at http://www.personalfinideas.com/. This blog talks about basics of investing as well as to ideas on investment options that may be avaialble time to time. There is obviously going to be posts that are specific to either India or the US, but I think most of the posts will be non-country specific.