Comments

• amd-linux

  2009-01-16 12:10:19

  Win7 is a repainted Vista:
  
  "Bottom line: So far, Windows 7 looks and behaves almost exactly like Windows Vista. It performs almost exactly like Vista. And it breaks all sorts of things that used to work just fine under Vista. In other words, Microsoft's follow-up to its most unpopular OS release since Windows Me threatens to deliver zero measurable performance benefits while introducing new and potentially crippling compatibility issues."
  
  http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/11/10/46TC-windows-7_5.html
  
  "This is Windows Vista with a new face, not a major new version of Windows."
  
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/08/windows_7_beta_one_review/page2.html

• the11thplague

  2009-01-16 13:12:13

  What a great idea ! They are getting their 7 betatesters to test their Live services too. :D After all, this is not the first time they abuse of their unpaid testers: this is what you get for helping M$

• Needs Sunlight

  2009-01-16 20:42:50

  People keep going back to Windows like some sick variant of the battered spouse syndrome.
  
  The failure that Windows brings is expressed at the individual level but manifests at the societal level: individuals have nearly infinite capacity to put up with failure, injury, misery, stupidity, etc. they simply reset their baseline and, after about 3 years, forget that there was ever any different situation. However, businesses and institutions and not *things* they are processes, depending on interaction of and work by their members to persist or grow over time. So failure can be made tolerable to an individual through many small gradual steps (see the adware interview earlier). However, groups like businesses or institutions have a solid, absolute threshold below which they can only collapse.