Linked by David Adams on Wed 12th Nov 2008 17:14 UTC, submitted by estherschindler
Industry analysts differ on the importance of shipping Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system before the 2009 holidays, but agree that the release of the OS needs to be swift and smooth to avoid the sins of Vista's past.
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2005-07-07
How about the XP upgrade was the arguably the first that didn't have people lining up in stores waiting to get their hands on it?
Apart from Windows 95, when have people ever lined up to buy a new release of Windows? Windows 98? Windows 2K? Windows Me (ugh!)? I don't remember anyone being excited over a new Windows release post '95.
At release, you had to upgrade your hardware to make it run without going woof (and 6 + years later, the hardware to make it run without going woof is _cheap_).
Oh please, I ran XP on release on my trusty Dell Inspiron 3700. It was a 1999 laptop with a 433 MHz Celeron processor, and 256 MB RAM. It ran XP fine and I admit I disabled Luna since I considered it an eye sore back then
It simply confirms how difficult it is to take ones eyes off a train wreck when it is right in front of you ....
I returned to using Windows as my primary platform in April 2008 when I took up a new job as a Windows C++ developer. Previously, I'd spent 5 years being a Mac head. I'd hardly consider myself as a Windows apologist.