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Well, as we come to the end of the course on Windows 7 I'd like to just leave you with a few thoughts about this new Operating System. First of all, the user experience on this thing is just simply incredible. Microsoft has, once again, when you least expect it, they hit a home run and you're not going to meet very many people who are more skeptical about this than I was when I first heard about it. My experiences with Vista have not been the type that would make a cheerleader out of you and I had wrestled with Vista with a number of clients and so forth and while I was hoping that they would really do something cool with Windows 7 to be honest with you, I wasn't expecting it. But I've got to tell you, I've had Windows 7 for a few weeks now and I've been playing with it, I've worked with it in Beta, it got my attention in Beta and the farther we got along when we got to Release Candidate, it really started looking cool. And then I got the released version and I'm totally addicted to it. No intentions whatsoever of going back to XP or Vista. The user experience is just incredible. I am so addicted to the Task Bar and the one-click and the dragging and snap and all this other stuff; it's just incredible. Functionality for Windows 7, you're just going to find that it works. They have some really cool time-saving task-saving things - that Search Bar's incredible. The organization - it is very, very easy to find what you're looking for, to get the things that you need, to pin things places for the stuff that you use most often. Stability - I simply have not had a problem with Windows 7. Now I'll tell you something and this isn't even impressive - I installed it on a really old laptop. It went on. Arrow won't work on it, so I don't have all the functionalities and transparencies and on that one even, installing some pretty bizarre programs, the thing would actually blue-screen. It has blue-screened twice. But both times it repairs itself and I don't see the blue screen again and when I've tried to install some bizarre stuff twice, custom made apps, it would blue-screen and then it would get itself back and I never seen a blue screen problem again. So, I really like it. Now, now that we're at the end of the course I'll just tell you it is so hard to determine exactly what I want to put in and what I want to leave out and how deep to go with it, and so what I've opted on here is to introduce you to a lot of different things because Windows 7 is going to be used by two very diverse groups of people. The very absolute novice beginner who just needs a computer at home and then of course, the techno nerd administrator in a large organization. Now the techno nerds are generally going to go to Microsoft TechNet and some other things to find their learning. Now, you know, I'm sure a lot of those chaps will view the Course and see it, but they're looking for what can I do with it? What are the cool things I can do? They'll take care of networking and stuff in the background and I've kind of tipped them off to some things here, but for the home user, for the person who just needs to get something done with their computer there are just so many cool things about Windows 7. Now, I would tell you that I've scratched the surface here and there's a bunch more information out on the website. You can start at Microsoft.com; there you know you're getting the bottom line and the correct information. Obviously Google, whatever your favorite search engine is - there's a bazillion forums and places, just go type Windows 7 in Google and chase some of them down. There are some really cool forums and blogs out there. I've got to tell you the Resource Kit, the Windows 7 Resource Kit is out; you can find it at your local bookstore. It is 1600 pages and this is more for the techno nerds who are going to be in a sys admin role and a corporate environment but if you really want to dig into Windows 7 and learn what's going on under the hood there are 1600 pages of it right there, so go take a look at it. Third party books, there's all kinds of books. Microsoft Press, which isn't third party but then all your Q Books, the Cybecks and on and on and on - O'Reilly, all those guys have some great books out there on Windows 7, so go take a look at some of those. So the bottom line with Windows 7 is what I hope you got from this course is, there's a lot of really cool functionalities; a lot of new ways to do things; a lot of improved old ways to do things. Just get it and get your hands on it, OK? I would strongly recommend that you get the highest graded copy that you can afford that you can get your hands on. I would get at least Professional and if at all possible get Ultimate where if your company buys it for you, you get Enterprise and you'll never be in a situation of wow, this would be really cool but my version won't do it. So, anyway I hope you've enjoyed the course. I hope you've gotten a lot out and I hope I've whetted your appetite to go out there and really dig into this thing and learn some more, OK? So anyway, thanks for coming. I hope you got a lot out of this and good luck. I'm looking forward to hearing from you about your experiences with Windows 7.