KDB Systems

I usu­ally don’t rec­om­mend every­one imme­di­ately upgrade to a new ver­sion of any­thing. I’m firmly in the wait for oth­ers to find the bugs camp. I like to run the lat­est myself but for pay­ing cus­tomers if it ain’t broke why fix it. I don’t rec­om­mend they upgrade until ver­sion 1.1 or pos­si­bly with a hard­ware change. I’m chang­ing this posi­tion for Win­dows 7. It’s not that dif­fer­ent from Vista. Vista’s now at Ser­vice Pack 2 and is very sta­ble. For what­ever rea­son many peo­ple are still run­ning XP. The secu­rity ben­e­fits of Win­dows 7 com­pared to XP far out­weigh any cons about upgrad­ing. The Inter­net is worse than the wild west was. Surf­ing the net with XP is like show­ing up at the OK Coral naked with a water pis­tol. It doesn’t mat­ter what you do, you’re prob­a­bly going to lose. When you do lose you will become a zom­bie both­er­ing the local town­ies until they finally put you out of your mis­ery. Win­dows 7 puts you in the game. You’ve got as good of a chance as the bad guys. For this rea­son alone Win­dows 7 is worth upgrad­ing for. All the fancy UI, net­work­ing, media enhance­ments, etc, are just gravy. Secu­rity is the num­ber one rea­son to upgrade. Heck, even the Linux and Mac crowd should be urg­ing the Win­dows crowd to upgrade. The Inter­net will be a much bet­ter place when XP is forgotten.