Saturday, November 8, 2008

Windows 7 = The Mojave Experiment II

In my view, that's probably true and it's amusing; kind of. Only that the 'unsuspecting' users did not attend a special session in a controlled environment but the 2008 Professional Developers Conference or through any other distribution channel, and willingly accepted and installed a pre-Beta version of Windows 7 to test it and, oh, marvel at it... We are now hearing good comments from the 'experts' who most likely have previously scoffed at Windows Vista. This time they were "struck by how fast Windows 7 is" and how "brilliant" and how it "runs well" in the now popular little brothers of the laptops, known as netbooks, priced at less than $500. The media abounds with positive reviews. Yet, what you see in Windows 7, both visually and under the hood, is mostly Windows Vista. I'm going to repeat myself: the best analogy is that Windows Vista is to Windows 2000 as Windows 7 is to Windows XP. This analogy will not escape those who are able to see the big picture.

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