Comments on: Windows Vista 7 + XP = Comedy http://techrights.org/2009/04/30/windows-vista-7-comedy/ Free Software Sentry – watching and reporting maneuvers of those threatened by software freedom Fri, 25 Nov 2016 09:41:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.14 By: David Gerard http://techrights.org/2009/04/30/windows-vista-7-comedy/comment-page-1/#comment-62764 Fri, 01 May 2009 23:01:32 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9771#comment-62764 Oh, it is. The interface is responsive, however.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/04/30/windows-vista-7-comedy/comment-page-1/#comment-62763 Fri, 01 May 2009 22:56:32 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9771#comment-62763 Some testers are saying that Vista 7 is as heavy as Vista. I’ll do a post shortly.

]]> By: David Gerard http://techrights.org/2009/04/30/windows-vista-7-comedy/comment-page-1/#comment-62761 Fri, 01 May 2009 22:52:15 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9771#comment-62761 Well, yes.

7 is more responsive than Vista to use. It’s really not that bad IMO from the user perspective (having tried the beta; don’t know if I’ll bother trying the RC, I just haven’t got enough memory for a VM on this machine).

I think 7′s real problem will be that there just isn’t a compelling reason to bother.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/04/30/windows-vista-7-comedy/comment-page-1/#comment-62760 Fri, 01 May 2009 22:50:24 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9771#comment-62760 We’ll see about that.

]]> By: David Gerard http://techrights.org/2009/04/30/windows-vista-7-comedy/comment-page-1/#comment-62759 Fri, 01 May 2009 22:49:02 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9771#comment-62759 And the punchline: despite being all-Edsel under the skin, the Comet was a huge hit. And didn’t have stench of Edsel on it.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/04/30/windows-vista-7-comedy/comment-page-1/#comment-62758 Fri, 01 May 2009 22:47:11 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9771#comment-62758 http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1950s-and-1960s-edsel-concept-cars3.htm

“The Edsel brand was ultimately a huge disappointment for Ford. But before the brand folded in 1960, and before Ford found instant success with the new 1960 Falcon compact, Ford had been working on the 1960 Edsel Comet concept car. It was to have resutled in a slightly larger, plusher version of the Falcon.”

Perfect match, eh?

“…slightly lighter, plusher version of the Vista…”

]]> By: David Gerard http://techrights.org/2009/04/30/windows-vista-7-comedy/comment-page-1/#comment-62757 Fri, 01 May 2009 22:43:45 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9771#comment-62757 Told you! It’s the history of the Edsel, with 7 as the Comet!

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/04/30/windows-vista-7-comedy/comment-page-1/#comment-62754 Fri, 01 May 2009 22:40:49 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9771#comment-62754 There’s a lot of deja vu here. It was similar for Vista in 2006.

]]> By: David Gerard http://techrights.org/2009/04/30/windows-vista-7-comedy/comment-page-1/#comment-62750 Fri, 01 May 2009 22:25:03 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9771#comment-62750 They did the same with Vista – the “RC” marketing beta worked for a year – but they’ve gone to a lot of effort this time to get as many copies of 7 out there as possible so people can actually try it.

]]> By: Roy Schestowitz http://techrights.org/2009/04/30/windows-vista-7-comedy/comment-page-1/#comment-62720 Fri, 01 May 2009 11:38:50 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9771#comment-62720 There is more happening in Spain at the moment. I’ll prepare a short report.

]]> By: pcolon http://techrights.org/2009/04/30/windows-vista-7-comedy/comment-page-1/#comment-62719 Fri, 01 May 2009 11:37:02 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9771#comment-62719 “Microsoft gives users Windows 7 free for 13 months”

If our leaders do not see this as ‘dumping’, to keep GNU/Linux/BSD, off the desktop, then they’re in collusion with the monopolist. MS is doing everything it can, but compete fairly, to stop consumer migration to alternate OS’s.

]]> By: twitter http://techrights.org/2009/04/30/windows-vista-7-comedy/comment-page-1/#comment-62705 Fri, 01 May 2009 05:00:23 +0000 http://boycottnovell.com/?p=9771#comment-62705 Demerjian thinks, ” may be a good fit for green screen COBOL apps that won’t run on the Broken OS, but that is about it.” I’m afraid he’s being optimistic. One of the most important things legacy Windows crap does is print. While the free software world has largely obsoleted printing, the clunky, single desktop and poor multitasking ability of Windows leaves users printing things out all the time. Compounding these problems is XP’s insane networking and printer sharing. “Mapping” printers is a laborious and unreliable task with XP. Doing the same thing trough a VM is going to be lots of fun for “admins” all over the world. I doubt it will work. A better solution is to use Wine for ancient software and let free software do all the networking and printing. The best solution is on the way, vendors jump ship in mass because Windows is terminally broken.

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