While the Windows 7 beta captivated people everwhere, and beta testers are plentiful, we also looked at the new Windows operating system from a VoIP and tlephony standpoint. We use MagicJack on Windows Xp and Vista machines. A few months ago we tested the product on Windows 2000 and never got MagicJack to work with Windows 2000. Of course the company never claimed to have Windows 2000 functionality for MagicJack.

When we tried MagicJack with Windows 7 our experience with Windows 2000 paid off. The operating system does not work with MagicJack. Even after installing the MagicJack upgrade for Windows XP, the product reported that MagicJack must be plugged in to USB. It was, but that is the same complaint we got with Windows 2000. Confusion and no joy with Magic Jack and Windows 7.

When we contacted Magic Jack live help it only took a moment to get a live operator. Working together we turned off the Windows firewall, installed the ugrade, and had no luck. The company does not generally support Beta products, so we were not too disappointed. Since Windows 7 supported all of our Windows XP and Vista products quite nicely we did not know what to expect.

Installing Bluetooth items on Windows 7 was easier than Vista and XP. One bluetooth headset running on XP reported a failure with a missing DLL, but Windows 7 installed automatically. Our 600 milliwatt wireless card installed on Windows 7 automatically and connected to the Internet during the installation. (We are running Beta 7000)

For our free long distance and local calls we use MagicJack, but not on our Beta computer running Windows 7.