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Red Hat Linux 7.1 Deluxe Edition review

		Product	Date	Editors' Rating	Members' Rating	Price
		Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard Intel Mac users will like Snow Leopard's smartly designed interface enhancements, while its Exchange support is a must-have (especially with Outlook for Mac on the way). With a ton of technological improvements, Snow Leopard is worth the £25 upgrade fee.	28 Aug 2009	8.2		£25
		Windows 7 Ultimate Windows 7 is more than what Vista should have been: it's where Microsoft needs to go. How much damage Vista did, and whether Windows 7 will persuade people to finally abandon Windows XP, remains to be seen.	04 Aug 2009	9.0		£230
		Mandriva Linux 2008 Spring The latest version of Mandriva is a competent and well-implemented desktop release with lots to commend it to those with some Linux know-how.	28 May 2008	7.5
		Ubuntu 8.04 LTS Hardy Heron is an incremental set of advances on earlier versions, but all the advances are in the right direction. Unfortunately, a known and unfixed bug means we can't currently recommend it for enterprise use.	25 Apr 2008	7.6
		Deploying Windows Vista: Hands On This training course provides an engaging in-depth insight into the advantages, and pitfalls, of deploying Microsoft's latest operating system.	25 Feb 2008	8.0		£1395
		Windows Vista SP1 It's always good to install the latest code for any operating system, but installing Windows Vista SP1 will require some users to spend a few hours without any visible or tangible improvements to their systems.	12 Feb 2008	7.0
		Ubuntu 7.10 Although it's not a massive jump from the previous version, Ubuntu 7.10 is slightly more usable if you're more accustomed to Windows, and is now better at co-existing with Windows on the same machine.	01 Nov 2007	7.5
		Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard The grace of Leopard's interface enhancements makes productivity more pleasurable with a Mac, as more than 300 functional and fun features top off this update.	26 Oct 2007	8.0		£85
		Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu is very user-friendly but not right for everyone. Oddly, both casual and advanced users will find this operating system wonderful, while day-to-day users may rail against Ubuntu's incompatibility with certain popular software applications. Still, this is a great leap forward for Linux with the mass audience.	13 Jul 2007	7.3
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