Re:"With Windows 7, PC users will at last have a..."
by foldr on Thursday October 08, 2009 @03:19PM
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What are you saying exactly? None of those quotes seems obviously false, and they don't contradict each other. (It's of course perfectly possible that Vista was the best version of Windows that MS had produced until Windows 7 arrived.)
Re:"With Windows 7, PC users will at last have a..."
by tptacek on Thursday October 08, 2009 @03:27PM
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Mossberg on Win7: In just two weeks, on Oct. 22, Microsoft’s long operating-system nightmare will be over. The company will release Windows 7, a faster and much better operating system than the little-loved Windows Vista, which did a lot to harm both the company’s reputation, and the productivity and blood pressure of its users.
Mossberg on Win7: Even in beta form, with some features incomplete or imperfect, Windows 7 is, in my view, much better than Vista, whose sluggishness, annoying nag screens, and incompatibilities have caused many users to shun it.
Mossberg on Vista: It has taken the giant software maker more than five years to replace Windows XP with this new version, called Windows Vista -- an eternity by computer-industry reckoning. Many of the boldest plans for Vista were discarded in that lengthy process, and what's left is a worthy, but largely unexciting, product.
I'm saying, leaving aside his actual reporting on what the products do, his editorial opinion doesn't appear to mean anything.
Re:"With Windows 7, PC users will at last have a..."
by foldr on Thursday October 08, 2009 @07:14PM
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Again, all of those statements are perfectly consistent with each other. Being "little loved" is perfectly compatible with being a "worthy but unexciting product."
Re:"With Windows 7, PC users will at last have a..."
by SamAtt on Thursday October 08, 2009 @03:09PM
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Link for the above Vista quotes...
http://ptech.allthingsd.com/20070118/vista-worthy-unexciting...
Mossberg on Vista: After months of testing Vista on multiple computers, new and old, I believe it is the best version of Windows that Microsoft has produced.
Mossberg on Win7: Like the new Snow Leopard operating system released in August by Microsoft’s archrival, Apple (AAPL), Windows 7 is much more of an evolutionary than a revolutionary product.
Mossberg on Vista: Overall, it works pretty much the same way as Windows XP. Windows hasn't been given nearly as radical an overhaul as Microsoft just applied to its other big product, Office.
I do not care what this person has to say about operating systems, and by extension, about anything anyone writes about what he cares about operating systems.