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.)
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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.