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No, nothing changing on this library’s end.\u00a0 But maybe the box you’re viewing the DPL Info Cafe on has seen better days, particularly if it is a PC.<\/p>\nNo, nothing changing on this library’s end.\u00a0 But maybe the box you’re viewing the DPL Info Cafe on has seen better days, particularly if it is a PC.<\/p>\n
The brain trust in Redmond, WA has all but outright said that Windows Vista was an flop.\u00a0 This is evidenced by their record-breaking rollout of Windows 7 in about half the time.\u00a0 Some could argue that they had no choice, as Windows Vista was terrible and no one was buying it.<\/p>\n
There does, however, seem to be a lot of consensus by computer columnists<\/a><\/strong> and the thousands of beta-testing regular folks\u00a0 about Windows 7 as more than just attonement for that sin…it may be that rationalization that you need to buy a new system to take advantage of it.<\/p>\n Here’s what we know so far:<\/p>\n -It’s not the resource hog that Vista was.\u00a0 Some people have been testing it on ancient systems<\/a><\/strong> and find its demands are strikingly similar to Windows XP.<\/p>\n -A lot of people have been tolerating their old 6-7 year old boxes in anticipation of this release.\u00a0 There is a significant uptick in demand<\/a><\/strong> for parts right now, a month before Windows 7 hits shelves.<\/p>\n -Windows 7 hits shelves on October 22nd.\u00a0 College students will get it<\/a><\/strong> at the insanely low price of $30 dollars.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 You will not.<\/p>\n -We’ve purchased a number of books in anticipation of Windows 7 rollout.\u00a0 If you think you’re going to get it anyways, might not hurt to bone up ahead of time.<\/p>\n Windows 7: The Missing Manual<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Windows 7 100 Most Asked Questions<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Windows 7 Plain and Simple<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n Windows 7 Inside Out<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" No, nothing changing on this library’s end.\u00a0 But maybe the box you’re viewing the DPL Info Cafe on has seen better days, particularly if it is a PC. The brain trust in Redmond, WA has all but outright said that Windows Vista was an flop.\u00a0 This is evidenced by their[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[384,850,848,849],"class_list":["post-4581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reference","tag-computers","tag-microsoft","tag-operating-systems","tag-windows-7"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-1bT","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4581"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4637,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4581\/revisions\/4637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}