I’m contemplating upgrading to Windows 7 as a number of people here in the office have already done. In fact, at least one person had to make several attempts before it worked which has me feeling like I should be planning this through before diving in. To that end, I figured I’d make a list of the software I need installed to help gauge exactly how long I can expect the move to take. I’m currently running Vista on a MacBook Pro using BootCamp v1.3 beta which has me thinking that to ensure things go smoothly that I’ll probably need to consider upgrading OSX as well. My current thinking is that I’ll pave (and gladly I might add) my Vista partition and install “fresh”.
So here is my list of “required” software which I’ll update as I think of things I missed:
Ouch. Ok, so this is a good start and has me thinking I need to see if there are ways to run portable versions of at least some of this stuff to avoid having to install though the USB key isn’t always fun/easy to have attached. I wish there was an option to embed a USB key into the machine so it didn’t have to hang off the side.
This has me wondering if there are any alternatives? I can already see this is going to take some serious prioritization and time.