Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th Jan 2009 21:47 UTC
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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Your claim of a bug in the Windows installer is based on the usage case of you forcibly removing a version of Windows from your computer and then expecting that now nox-existent operating system be able to clean up after itself? That's absurd. If you, external to the OS, used a tool to repartition your HD then you need to be responsible for cleaning up the MBR records. After all, like you said, it's your HD that you have the power to grant permission to. If you exert that level of ownership than you need to exert an equal level of responsibility for the actions you take on that HD.
Expecting WindowsXYZ+1 to be able to fix your computer after it is gone or for WindowsXYZ to maintain a holistic view of everything that happens on your HD, even items external to itself, and clean it all up for you is pretty wishful thinking.
The way Windows treats the MBR currently is not a bug. What you want is clearly new functionality, therefore it is a feature request.