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Windows 7's Media Hype Having the Opposite Effect As Vista's
Death Metal Maniac tips an Ars Technica piece suggesting that the media's coverage of Vista's flaws portrayed the operating system as worse than it was, and, if early reports on Windows 7 are any indication, positive hype will create the opposite reaction this time around. Quoting: "... the problem is exaggeration; ... bloggers and journalists alike use their personal experiences to prove their point in their writing. The blame doesn't solely lie with us, as Vista was by no means perfect, but we did manage to amplify the problems beyond reason. And if the beta is anything to go by, Windows 7 is going to fly. This is, by far, the best beta operating system the software giant has ever released. The media has locked on to this, and is using exaggeration already, before Windows 7 is even ready for prime time." Apparently a decent beta can succeed where $300 million and Jerry Seinfeld failed.
I'm sorry, I'm not the developer of Windows 7 so I don't have the details, but from what I've read (and I do read from places other than Slashdot), that Windows 7 stops allowing *some* applications to be written entirely like shit.
That's not to say of course, that there won't be shitty applications out there, but the ones that *require admin rights* and other things won't function well. They are breaking compatibility for those poorly coded apps.
Other things like Direct X, memory management, caching... I guess those are plusses too. On the enterprise end there are *lots* of enhancements and benefits, but since this is Slashdot, nobody's really going to care because they all work for Red Hat and don't use Windows in the enterprise (what a laugh).
I think we'll see the benefits when it comes out.
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
As a matter of fact while people get older they get more used to the things they use. It takes time and effort to get acquainted with something new. Wether the new thing is a car, a new OS, other software or just new socks.
I agree with you except for the Mexican standoff.
To "prove my point in writing" I have tested Windows 7 on my older Tablet PC (motion LE1600) which was designed for XP. So I did use XP and Vista quite a lot of time on this machine. Win7 is far from prime time.
There are still several bugs. But none the less is IS impressive.
You can read more about installing and using Win7 here on my blog: http://max.zamorsky.name/2009/01/13/windows7-auf-einem-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pcwindows7-on-a-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pc/
And here are some nice Windows 7 Humor things I found over at some sites: http://max.zamorsky.name/2009/01/14/windows-7-humorwindows-7-humor/
how IT is changing the world - http://max.zamorsky.name
What a well-researched, well argued point.
Here's the problem: everyone telling me that Vista is crap can't seem to tell me why. Sure, they rumble up a few reasons like "performance", "stability", or "hardware support", but when you ask them for the hard and fast stats the numbers paint a very different picture.
Vista is a few percent slower than XP, except in some specific edge-case microbenchmarks. Vista works with everything I own, from my EEE PC to my T61 to my home-built desktop. It supports every app that I run. It doesn't crash.
So, I guess I actually like this "slow, bloated, crashy OS". Perhaps it's because Vista 64 is better supported than XP64 ever was. Perhaps it's because the audio system works better with my odd speaker setup (5.1 missing the rear speakers). Perhaps it's because it's saved my ass more than once by keeping shadow copies of things I've overwritten or deleted.
So, unless you have something better than "it's a crap product", please stop pissing on Vista. Vague, unspecified reasons aren't going to cut it.
Give me a break. I fix computers for a living. There's nothing troll like about my response. Vista is and was that bad. I have to fix it every day. Ars was wrong then and is wrong now.
There are 47+ programs in Vista that collect information and sends it back to Microsoft and that information includes your IP and the date/time. Microsoft militarily drafted the hardware manufacturers denying them certification if they didn't implement the hardware circuitry to verify that the DRM wasn't being tampered with, even if we the consumer never wanted to purchase such a product. Microsoft took to degrading video content whenver they felt that certain content being played was not valid copyright and this was proven as fact by numerous sources such as the Doctor that looked at high rez x-ray photos for a living and found the images were degraded when he played an MP3 file. It was further proven that when you played an MP3 file that the bandwidth for copying files over even your local network was seriously degraded.
There are serious issues that exist today.
I have 3 machines that have vista on them and several with XP and several with Linux. I am not trolling. I was a bit lazy to not push out my reasons why I believe ARS to be wrong--and it is that they are wrong.
Vista was well known as a pig with lipstick. Win7 is just Vista with a different taskbar and some other changes. They could easily have rolled that out as a patch to Vista instead of trying to siphon off more money from the public.
Microsoft is not innocent, even after being convicted in the US as a criminal monopolist and having the individual states in the US conclude the same. The EU has also found Microsoft a monopolist and that they have acted in a criminal way, even so much as to recently, within the past week, announce that the integration of IE into the OS is anti-competitive and criminal.
So, please, get control of yourself and stop acting like anything being written that disagrees with ARS is a troll.
You can lead a man with reason but you can't make him think.