I am comfortable with my microsoft spyware. I don't want to learn2code to perform a basic task (idc how easy you nerds say it is, even copy and pasting is too inconvenient). I don't care if the NSA and Bill Gates watch me jerk off if it means I don't have to slightly go out of my complacent ways. STOP THE LINUX PROPAGANDA
edit: c/technology BANNED me and accused me of threatening to assassinate tux the penguin
you just tell the ubuntu installer you want to dual boot. it does it for you.
The shared filesystem is a little weirder because Windows uses NTFS and it kind of sucks on Linux (as it's not a unix(-like) filesystem so the semantics are different.) The are drivers for it but I think there can be a problem if your Windows install suspends to disk ( I recall that being a problem way back when.)
Although based on this post I hope you 1. have backups of your school shit and 2. understand Win7 is completely EOL unless you're paying big bucks to MS.