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."
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.