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Windows 7 Memory Usage Critic Outed As Fraud
A few days ago, we ran word of a report alleging that Windows 7 consumed more memory than it should, based on a report from Devil Mountain Software; a followup post linked to Ars Technica's robust deconstruction of that claim. Now the story gets weird: Fred Flowers writes The original story quoted the company's CTO, Craig Barth on the issue. Now, InfoWorld editor in chief Eric Knorr has still more to add. From Knorr's blog at InfoWorld.com: 'On Friday, Feb. 19, we discovered that one of our contributors, Randall C. Kennedy, had been misrepresenting himself to other media organizations as Craig Barth, CTO of Devil Mountain Software (aka exo.performance.network), in interviews for a number of stories regarding Windows and other Microsoft software topics. ... There is no Craig Barth.' Knorr's post goes on to say that Kennedy has been fired from his blogging gig at InfoWorld over this 'serious breach of trust,' and that his blog will be removed."
Yeah, it seems as though apple (and it's customers) are quicker to bash their competitors than explain the features of their own products.
Well, I'm sure Apple is a little worried considering Windows 7 is actually good.
No, you can rest assured that Apple is not worried. They know they have a better product (and they're right).
Now, it's still Windows but let's be honest, it's pretty good.
You're *almost* saying it right. "It's pretty good for Windows" is what you're saying without coming right out and saying it. And that's true. But as a consumer OS, Mac OS X is better. As a server OS, Linux is better.
The only two cases where Windows is truly better is in an office environment, and gaming. In the office environment, Windows 7 isn't really any better than XP. Worse, in many ways, better in a few. For gaming, presently, XP is still better, but XP is sort of a dead-end OS in that regard, so Windows 7 is a better choice, even if it currently isn't the better system for games.
Consider UNIX has been around for getting on 40 years meanwhile Windows is what, 15 years old? Given that I would say yeah it's starting to getting pretty decent.
This is not only factually incorrect, but it doesn't even make sense in any way. Are you saying that Windows is pretty good, for such a young OS? That's hardly praise.
Thing is, aside from games and an office setting, I can think of no compelling reason to choose Windows over its competitors. I know this is partially subjective, and other people will have other values and opinions, but really, taken in context of the broader computing realm, it's hard to call Windows "pretty good", or "actually good". When taken in the context solely of Windows itself, then sure, it's definitely getting better.
Unfortunately for MS, so is their competition, so it's not really a net win for them.
Hope microsoft sues him.
actually, he's a well-respected climatologist.
No, it's an abbreviated phrase used by annoying knobheads, not in general use but favoured by certain dweebs on the internet.
If you just write "This", 99% of normal people will just think you're an idiot who can't write properly.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it