1. I reread the article and can’t find anywhere that he said that Windows 7 was being released in the U.S. only.
2. If there is indeed “a vast difference between globally applicable and U.S. – centric”, then why the rant in the first place? Unless the use of U.S.- centric was simply meant to imply further negative connotations.

If indeed there were good points to be made in the reply, I never got that far with reading it.

I’ll leave any “still angry over losing the war” jokes out of this.

You do make some good points. My next PC will definitely be 64 bit. But I think it will be quite a while before your average user (internet, email, et al) needs more than 4 GB of RAM.

- Only the U.S.? No, actually worldwide; but it appears that Americans seem so patriotically egocentric that they feel they have a right to disregard any other countries as if they don’t exist, unless they directly benefit Uncle Sam in regard to the matter at hand.

FYI I recieved my pre-ordered copy of Windows 7 Home Premium on 22nd October, (That’s 10.22.2009 for Americans, or 22.10.2009 for the rest of the world.) despite the UK postal strike. Staples hired a courier to deliver it to me. (Yes; we have Staples in the UK too.)(I forgot to order a new 1TB hard-drive for my box, to install it on; so until that arrives I’m using it as an ornament.)

I have a problem with this site lately, inasmuch as it appears to be geared solely to the U.S. of A and nowhere else. There is an entire planet full of overdeveloped monkeys’ worth of countries outside of the U.S.A. would you believe? – Some of us even have the internet too!

“It’s life, Jim, but not as we know it.”

Having got that off my chest; yes, I do prefer Windows 7 in some ways to XP, having used the RC since May. I hope Safari doesn’t keep crashing in the RTM like it does on my box in the RC though. – Although some people may think, on looking at some of my earlier comments, that I’m anti-Apple, I do like their browser, and I’d use it all the time if it had as many add-ons as Firefox does.

While I like 7 a lot, I’m also intending to continue to run XP on my other box right up until 2014; although this may or may not change over time. – For instance, if my mobo in some way fails on that machine, forcing me to do a total rebuild/replace before then, then I’ll install 7 on the rebuilt or new machine.

(Vista, IMO, is a latter-day ME, and I’ve never used it, and never will.)

I run the 64-bit version of Win 7 (RC), and I’ll be installing the 64-bit version of the RTM version in due course. I do enciurage everyone else, where possible, to install the 64-bit version too: You’ll soon find that the 3 point whatever gigabytes of RAM, the maximum visible under a 32-bit operating system, just isn’t enough. (I’m currently running 8GB; which is maybe a bit much right now; although I’ve used up 5GB of that on more than 1 occasion.)

Let’s put the 32-bit operating system in its coffin and bury it; consign it to history and allow it to drift off into the obscurity of the past. Can you honestly imagine anyone currently running a 16-bit operating system? In 12 years time we’ll all be baffled by how we managed with less than 4GB of RAM and a 1TB hard-drive: You wait and see…

Again, I’ve not had any issues other than something that I’ve caused myself (trying to install a 5 year old firewall that barely worked in XP). I did not and am not basing my liking Windows 7 based on reviews or opinions but on personal experience only and could not be happier with how good Windows 7 is…please do yourself a favour and ignore all the reviews (good and bad) and just give it a try, you will be pleasently surprised.

No doubt this release has been handled better than Vista’s. But you are naive if you don’t think there will be problems just because it’s been in trial releases. For Microsoft’s sake, hopefully they will be small quirks rather than huge holes. But I’ll let someone else step on the landmines first, thank you very much.