Linux is an alternative operating system that is freely available. I had squirreled away several discs (bonuses from British computer magazines) that let you boot up to Linux from a CD without the need to actually install it.
Guess what?
My computer ran with Linux and didn't shut down.
That would seem to indicate that the computer hardware is just fine, right?
I had a copy of the new Windows 7 operating system ready to go; perhaps whatever incompatibilities my L100 had with Vista would be rectified with Windows 7!
So, I started installing Windows 7, and things seemed to go pretty smoothly... at the start.
But after 51 minutes, guess what? The installation shut down!
When I pressed the power button, the "Windows Error Recovery" screen popped up.
After following all the directions (and attempting to load Windows 7 several more times), I finally stopped trying.
Why has Windows 7 suddenly fallen off the track with negative publicity? What happened? What changed?
This is one of the strangest developments I have ever witnessed—even rivaling the reverse publicity that began to pound OS/2 beginning around 1987, which eventually destroyed that OS as a viable alternative. The OS/2 destruction was orchestrated by Microsoft; who is orchestrating this?
I knew something was up beginning a few weeks back when studies and reports began to emerge about how businesses will not upgrade to Windows 7. Everyone is trying to save money or something. It was never fully analyzed. The data point that sticks out was one report that said 60 percent of businesses are going to hold off on Windows 7 implementation. And these are companies that probably did not upgrade to Vista.
These announcements came on the heels of an extremely positive pre-publicity campaign that was probably orchestrated by Microsoft or one of its agencies. In January of this year everyone—and I mean everyone—was raving about Windows 7. Microsoft gave out the beta, which was praised, and then gave out copies of RC1, which was also praised. It was the best thing ever!
Interestingly, the results were mixed. Boot times, despite dedicated tweaking from Microsoft were slightly worse than in Vista SP2 or XP SP3 (by over a second). Shutdown times, though, showed much improvement over the slow XP, and even some improvement over Vista.
--Randall Kennedy
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2009-08-07 04:02:43
Robotron 2084
2009-08-07 05:10:00
Robotron 2084
2009-08-07 04:55:25
Well, not so fast. There just isn't enough evidence here to say that with 100% certainty. While Roy is happy without all the facts, as a reader you should want more. In some cases, a faulty hard disk or RAM can cause erratic problems that would only appear in some situations. Personally, I once had a hard drive that would reboot the entire computer when a bad part of the disk was accessed. An ignorant person would have blamed Windows, but a disk check utility provided by Western Digital proved that Windows was not to blame. You can guarantee Roy would have blamed Windows without any further investigation.
You'd be amazed how bizarre computer problems can be. Take my original Amiga 500. I replaced the Fat Agnus chip with the "Fatter Agnus" chip. The new chip allows the machine to use an additional 512k of Chip memory. Fat Agnus also manipulates graphics memory, so this can be thought of as part of the graphics system. OK, everything is good, right? Well, games worked great. Zero problems, even with games that had action all over the screen..... but the Amiga OS? I noticed funny things. Sometimes graphics would get corrupted on the screen. Moving a window would leave garbage pixels behind. At it's worst the computer would crash when trying to move a copied brush in Deluxe Paint.
What was the problem? The Amiga OS? No, in fact it was a bad Fat Agnus chip. I removed the new chip and replaced it with the original. All graphic problems and crashes went away. You'd think a damaged chip would have WORSE problems with fancy games and have less trouble with mundane OS graphics, but with computers the smallest details can have amazing results.
Remember. Roy will use ANY, and I do mean ANY negative story about Windows, no matter how weak it's foundation might be. You will never see him post a positive story about Windows in any way. I also suggest readers double check the article Roy quotes to notice the parts he omitted.