Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 22nd Jul 2009 21:32 UTC
It's been a three year long ride. Windows Vista was released January 2007, and its reception by the press was very negative, which made sure public perception was very negative as well. Sales were slow, people wanted Windows XP, and businesses didn't care about Vista either. Microsoft needed something that would make the world forget about Vista, and it needed it fast. The journey is over: Windows 7 has gone RTM.
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I don't really care how good people think Windows 7 is WRT to Either Vista or XP. As long as the Windows OS continues to annoy me with constantly whining about there being no firewall software running or continually popping up a title about updates being available, I'm going to continue using Linux. Why? Because the computers I use are supposed to obey and serve me, not the other way round. I have no need of Windows anti-virus software/firewall stuff because the hardware firewall in the router is a more than adequate substitute. Furthermore, neither anti-virus and firewall software would even be necessary if Microsoft had designed a secure OS in the first place. Microsoft needs to bite the bullet once and for all and drop ALL of the legacy hardware support in any new OS they write. Anyone still using CGA/VGA cards for example, needs to trade in their ancient hardware for something newer, instead of relying on Microsoft to crutch their stinginess. And I haven't even touched on DRM and WGA issues! In short, there are just too many philosophical differences about who owns the hardware and software between Microsoft and myself, so no thanks, I'll stick with gentoo Linux and my old Windows XP CDROM (on the rare occasions when Windows is actually useful).
Edited 2009-07-23 09:46 UTC