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Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
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I ordered Windows 7 when it was initially offered by best buy a couple of months ago. I was excited about the full use of the 64-bit capability of me laptop and the advantages of what Microsoft would have learned from Vista.
I was stoked, But 4 hours of backing up my files and trying to install the soft ware has me itching to return it and get my cash back. Firstly it seems upgrading from 32-bit to 64-bit with windows 7 is impossible. This contradicts the advertisement initially offering the pre-sale of the OS.

Additionally it seems our hasty friends at MS made no provisions to support Adobe Encore CS3. I need this software for work....actually this very week. So when I ran the Windows 7 Upgrade advisor, a warning popped up saying Encore "may not work properly". You may need to un-install the software.
"May not" is phraseology that should never be associated with an operating system. Certainly not one as commonly used as Windows. I checked on line for discussions and a possible solutions and found Adobe has no patch for this. As a matter of fact they are not expected to address the issue until CS5 is built. By which time Windows 7 will be old.
If this is the sort of mis-aligned thinking at MS, I'm eagerly awaiting the Google operating system due out next year.
Yes I can hear you all now telling me to go buy a Mac if I am going to use anything Adobe. I do not subscribe to this theory. Properly tweeked a PC can do everything a Mac can. In the past windows has been more affordable, flexible and democratic than Mac. This experience makes me start to reconsider.
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