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5.0 stars
"It Works! Well!"
Pros: Speed, Compatibility, The Future is here!
Cons: Make sure drivers for your hardware are there; OEM only.
Summary: I made this a 10 to make up for all of those here who don't really have the OS and are writing unfounded opinions. Probably, though, I'd give it a 8.5 or 9, otherwise. I ran dual boot for the CPP (customer product preview) beta versions, and once all the drivers were there, it ran flawlessly. It seems to boot MUCH faster than XP (no formal test, though), and has run every 32 bit program I've tried (including games!). So if you have a 64 bit processor, and it has drivers for your processor (likely, since not many 64 bit processors have old, unsupported hardware, and many basic standards are supported), then why wouldn't you go that way? As 64 bit programs come available, things start really speeding up.
They have a free preview of the release version, so you can test it out to make sure it finds all the right drivers, rather than "wait", and then buy it from a reseller as an "OEM" version by bying a power cable or some such. Or you can trade in your XP pro version if bought in the last year.
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I was shocked to see the review of 5.8 on this piece of software. Perhaps it's that in just 7 months time we've become more moved into the 64 bit world, so, by all means, do not shy away from this product. I definitely have to boast that this is the best performing Windows software I have ever laid eyes on. I have gone from power on to loading my desktop in as little as 10 seconds. The OS has not yet once locked up on me. I have had a handful of programs crash hard and fast but not only was Windows stable enough to recover from the crash, but it was also fluently running other programs while doing it. I couldn't be more glad I picked this OS.
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just to let you know the 64-bit version of windows is already available from dell through buying its Dimension XPS 600 on its gaming page: under the need help? window
http://www1.us.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/xps?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs
