Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 15th Apr 2009 22:54 UTC
Now that Windows 7 is more or less finalised on the feature side of things, with the release candidate around the corner, I thought it would be interesting to look back upon what we thought Windows 7 would be - and what we actually hoped Windows 7 would be. So, I dove into our article and comment archive to see how many of our hopes, dreams, and predictions came true.
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RE: Windows 7 is Windows 98
by poundsmack on Wed 15th Apr 2009 23:29
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RE[2]: Windows 7 is Windows 98
by dimosd on Thu 16th Apr 2009 01:48
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RE[2]: Windows 7 is Windows 98
by tylerdurden on Thu 16th Apr 2009 03:24
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RE[2]: Windows 7 is Windows 98
by Kroc on Thu 16th Apr 2009 08:16
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If you had Windows 95, all knows the buzz that it has, but really less persons have a Pentium class to run it smoothly. So it have to wait for 3 years to make hardware better and to add small features and improve mostly the issues of the first spagetti OS.
What is Vista? As a funny thing Vista tries to implement the Cairo pure abstraction OS. And at the end fails as Windows 95 fails as being BSOD Windows.
Windows 7 will appear close to 3 years, like Windows 98 did for 95. It improves the small glitches in UI, as Windows 98 did. It will not improve almost nothing in drivers, as 98 did (Windows 98 did add support for USB and dual-monitor, elsewhere you had to install professional drivers that adds this feature), have a bit updated software and that's all.
So, for who knows the history, the love of 7 will mean that we get better hardware to run it, more applications are tested for Vista and we will perceive as better, not because is better, but is the same thing, but more adapted for marked and tuned a bit in the annoying parts of it's past.
So, welcome Win98, version 2010!