Time to shell out some well earned cash...

The free ride on Windows 7 for a lot of folks, including myself, in the form of Windows 7 RC, will come to an end this month. It has started already little by little by shutting your system every two hours since March 1 and it will cease to work on June 1. How do you like that? You have 3 choices: One: Shell out some money and buy an upgrade to Windows 7 (it's worthy, absolutely). Two: keep using your greasy, moldy old Windows XP (or 2000, or XP). Three: do what other cluelessly smart or smartly clueless people do and go for Linux. This last choice will guarantee that you will have to re-learn what you already know about how to use personal computers, while dealing with cryptic, geeky names for everything from command line instructions to names of simple desktop applications... Thanks, but no thanks. I'd rather go for choice number one. That is it. The number one choice: Windows 7. And I don't mind paying for it. I make a living with computers, which are my tools. Shouldn't you pay for the tools of your trade? You, Mr. Electrician, do you expect not to pay for your tools? Unless you don't mean business, you can use tools that cost you nothing. Period. I will get a copy of Windows 7 for my current PC, running Vista for 2 years now, and I would get Windows 7 64-bit in my new laptop computer, arriving soon to my doorstep...!