Along with the release of the Windows 7 release candidate came new system requirements for Microsoft's next operating system. This updated set of requirements has been declared final, making them the official system requirements for Windows 7 final. Seeing Microsoft's rather... Dubious past dealings with minimum system requirements, let's take a look at Windows 7's.
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Member since:2006-01-19
Well, with the Linux distros it is usually like this:
The versions of Redhat/Debian/Suse/*buntu from last year have been very good, one of them was probably ahead of the others.
And EACH of this year's versions trump ALL of the previous year's versions by far.
I'd like to hear that sort of thing for Windows, but every time they release a new system, some things are regressive, not progressive (like security policies).
The Linux distros have had decent separation of admin and users since day one, and are now erecting more and more internal walls (like with SELinux) to tighten down the system even more.
In Windows they are doing a freaky dance around the problem that for compatibility's sake they cannot outright forbid ordinary users to mess around in operating system's folders.
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2005-07-07
You make it sounds like that's a bad thing? Every version of Ubuntu is billed as the next best thing. Every version of Mac OS X is billed as the greatest thing since sliced bread.
Every vendor does that with their products.