Recently loaded Windows 7 on my dual boot MacBook Pro 15 inch portable (mid-late 2009 model running Snow Leopard).<br />The MacBook Pro Bootcamp instructions for this computer advise that you can install Windows Vista and Windows XP, but actually Windows 7 also does fine. I got Windows 7 Professional since I want to be able to run Windows XP and the Windows 7 Home edition does not provide for that.<br />Installation went flawlessly - using BootCamp, I partitioned the hard drive and then installed Windows 7 on the appropriate partition without any hangups. Program installation was also easy.<br />I am not a fan of Internet Explorer and downloading and using Mozilla Firefox has also gone well.<br />So far it is working fine, except that I cannot change the track pad controls so that they work the way I want. The changes one makes on the Mac side of the house to control the track pad do not carry over, but Windows seems to offer limited ways to modify them.<br />As is usual with Microsoft products, this edition of Windows defaults you toward other Microsoft services - now, for example, unless you set controls otherwise you are defaulted to Bing for search. I find this annoying, but not a major problem.<br />Overall, so far, a relatively trouble-free Microsoft product that performs as advertised. It really does seem simpler that previous editions of Windows.
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