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Windows 7 Clean Install Only In Europe
jbeale53 writes "It seems that to install Windows 7 in Europe, you'll have to wipe the system and start over. There will be no ability to upgrade. From the article, 'The unfortunate side effect has been caused by Microsoft's decision to avoid any further EU censure on Windows 7 by removing Internet Explorer 8 from the OS. Because Internet Explorer is so deeply integrated within Vista, it's not currently possible to perform an upgrade that removes IE.' Why would Microsoft cripple it this way? Just to try and point fingers at the European Union? Because the EU didn't tell them to remove IE, they only told them to offer other browsers to be installed during setup."
Savvy users of both Linux and XP know that tweeked XP is much snappier and far more convenient than tweeked Linux if both run the same features and don't do anything stupid.
If you were as 'savvy' as all that, you'd know that where UNIX, and Linux among them, starts up most of it's services before you even reach the graphical logon, Windows defers much until after the user logs on - which is why I can log on to KDE in about 5 secs, but it takes me almost a full minute to reach a workable desktop in Windows, because of all the things that have to start after authentication.
And convenience is a matter of what you are used to. To me a command line in a proper shell like ksh is far more convenient than an overloaded IDE or a word processor that has once again changed beyond recognition. I honestly don't understand how anyone can put up with Windows - to me it is a never ending pain to use - but we are all different, I suppose.