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Early adopters very satisfied with Windows 7

Ed Valio — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:50:35 +0000

From ARS Technica: ”Windows 7 adoption and satisfaction have both been exceptionally high from the start, according to two new reports from Forrester Research. The first report notes that the early adopters which drive the initial success of most tech products are very satisfied with the key new features; consumers who adopted Windows 7 in forth quarter were generally very satisfied with their PCs. The second notes that Windows 7 has been very good at raising awareness, though Microsoft still faces the challenges of making sure it lives up to the lasting legacy of Windows XP while at the same time overcoming consumers’ painful memory of Windows Vista. The reports are based on Forrester’s Consumer Technographics data.

Windows 7 penetrated the consciousness of the market by the end of 2009, with a strong majority of US consumers aware of the product. Forrester also noticed that the operating system started to break a well-known trend: historically most consumers acquire new operating systems when they purchase their new PC. With Windows 7, however, upgrade behavior was much stronger…”

ARS Technica – Early adopters very satisfied with Windows 7

2009 Am Law tech survey

Ed Valio — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:00:32 +0000

From Law.com:

”Like a bad Hollywood thriller, law firm technology has a villain that’s all too easy to spot. The economic downturn has — to no one’s surprise — taken a toll on the coffers of law firm IT departments: Fully one-third of the 110 Am Law 200 firms participating in our fourteenth annual survey of technology directors reported that their capital budgets were down more than 10 percent this year. Staffing levels and salaries have taken hits, and equipment purchases and software upgrades have been put off. None of it is happy news. (Access all the charts in our survey from the links below.)

‘When I proposed a budget similar to last year, it was clearly communicated [by the firm's technology committee] that it went beyond what the firm wanted to spend on the capital side, by 30-40 percent,’ says a law firm technology director who asked not to be identified. ‘So we had to go back and ask ourselves what we could live without for another year. We might get better performance on [Microsoft] Exchange 2007, but we were going to stay on Exchange 2003. We weren’t going to spend money on new BlackBerrys. We made conscious choices not to do certain things.”’

Law.com – Am Law Tech Survey 2009

How to prep your PC for Windows 7

Ed Valio — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 19:01:36 +0000

Windows 7 is being released on October 22, 2009. If you’re the early adopter type who can’t wait to get your hands on the new OS, but haven’t played around with any of the betas or release candidates, Lifehacker has put together a guide for easing the transition. Follow the jump to see what awaits you during your Windows 7 upgrade experience.

If you’re jumping into Windows 7 for the first time this Thursday, or soon after, you won’t find yourself facing an entirely new-looking, strange-acting Windows. Most of Windows 7’s features are refinements, tweaks, and speed-ups from Vista. Your Lifehacker editors have been using 7 ever since the Windows 7 Beta dropped in January, and we’ve found a few things worth noting and, in some cases, crowing about, like these 10 things to look forward to in Windows 7, or Windows 7’s underhyped features.

Considering that we know that 86% of you are upgrading to Windows 7, we thought it might be worth a little guidance for getting to ready to do just that.

Lifehacker: Prep Your PC for Windows 7