test drive MS Windows Vista & Office 2007
Opening the box from Microsoft last week, we received Vista Business edition and Office 2007. (This is the first time for Microsoft to launch its Windows and Office at the same time). I fired up my old computer with XP pro as the existing OS. Since Vista is an ‘upgrade’ operating system, I decided to upgrade this machine to Vista. It’s a Pentium 4 1.6Ghz with 512MB of RAM. The whole upgrade process took me about 1 hour, and guess what, it actually wiped out everything, no single programs from previous OS were there anymore. The old windows system was moved to a folder called Windows.old in the C: drive.
Even the MBR was wiped, meaning I have to restore the boot loader again for the Ubuntu on another partition to be able to do multi-boot again, duh! I’m still not sure whether Vista’s partition can be detected by the boot loader.
Installing Office 2007, the amount of memory the process took was growing from around 380MB to more than 400MB, including the OS itself. Installing Office 2007 (default, not custom) was almost as long as installing Vista (perhaps longer, I don’t know, it all depends on your system I suppose).
The whole point is, I feel like I’m still using XP with Vista theme 
