Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Jan 2009 21:47 UTC
Windows Reviewing the first beta of an important release like Windows 7 is never an easy job to do. A confouding factor is that many people have already made up their mind about Windows 7; not because they have tried it, but because it's a Microsoft product, and therefore it sucks. At OSNews we try to judge products by their own merits, not by the parent company that created it. Read on for a set of impressions regarding the Windows 7 beta.
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Regarding the MBR...
by Odwalla on Sun 4th Jan 2009 22:42 UTC
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"Microsoft, fix this. This is a bug. Bugs need to be fixed."

No, it isn't. The way Windows handles the MBR during an installation does not cause errors, conflicts, or instabilities within Windows. Just because you want a new feature where the MBR is handled differently and more peacefully coexists with other software that doesn't mean the current implementation is bugged. By your logic any piece of software that doesn't work well with an OS other than the one for which it was written is flawed. Go file bug reports against every piece of Max OSX software saying it doesn't work with Windows and see where that gets you.