It is fitting that Microsoft’s new Windows 7 operating system arrives ahead of Halloween. When Microsoft buries Windows Vista for good on Oct. 22 and replaces it with Windows 7, the ghostbusters in Redmond will have exorcised a demon.

If you haven’t experienced the frights of Vista firsthand, you’ve no doubt heard about them: how it takes forever to power up and shut down, how the software constantly nags you, how it hogs precious PC resources and how it’s incompatible with all-too-many third-party peripherals and programs.

Throngs of PC users found Vista so scary that they stuck with the Windows XP operating system Microsoft launched in 2001, a lifetime ago in the tech world.

Microsoft doesn’t have to apologize for Windows 7. Vista’s replacement represents a monster leap forward. It’s Vista done right – at last. Microsoft claims hundreds of small improvements, and a few big ones.

EAGER TO UPGRADE?: Make sure your PC can handle it

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