Ballmer Is Windows 7
    		
  Doug is still in transit today, but he'll back for Monday's edition of Redmond Report. Filling in for him is MCPmag.com Editor Michael Domingo.
Live from New York, it's Steve Ballmer stating  "I'm a Windows 7 PC, effective immediately" at the official launch  event. (I'm guessing when he made that  proclamation, he wasn't as adorable as the little girl in the ads.)
Now, if Ballmer really were a PC, I'd  guess that he would be the shiniest, most souped-up, Windows 7-sporting Alienware  desktop, not an underwhelming ASUS netbook.
 Windows 7 officially went on sale  a day earlier in the U.K., on Oct. 21, because of a postal strike. The early launch  doesn't matter much; Windows 7 has been tested, debugged (for the most part)  and manhandled by well over 8 million beta testers, so we weren't expecting any  surprises.
 For consumers, an upgrade is likely  to come from the purchase of a netbook or a new computer. And for enterprise  folks, there's a modest list of upgrade-worthy features, outlined here. 
Worth an upgrade? Especially if  you're running Vista, the answer is yes. 
 
	Posted by Michael Domingo on October 23, 2009