Windows 7 has an update hang-over on the day after the install. Today was the second day that I used Windows 7 on the Systemax PC, and as Windows booted I was greeted to a flurry of "applying update X of Y" messages. The 'Y' in the messages was the total number of update operations, and it was a whopping 33,769.
Yes, that is thirty-three thousand operations. The entire set was completed in less that five minutes, so I expect that an "operation" may be as simple as changing a single registry entry.
Why Microsoft was compelled to display such messages and organize operations at such a granular level is open to speculation. Perhaps they have seen problems with updates crashing, so the last update operation would be displayed and useful for diagnoses. It is a thought that inspires little confidence.
On the plus side, Windows 7 the "real" edition knows how to talk to my mouse through the KVM switch. The eval copy of Windows 7 did not, forcing me to use a separate mouse attached directly to the PC. Oddly, Windows 7 *would* talk to the keyboard through the KVM switch. (And Linux would talk to both keyboard and mouse through the KVM switch, so I knew it was not a hardware problem.)
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