Microsoft wants you to "Get the Facts Straight"

[Liam Proven]

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:52 PM, David Gerard<dgerard at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2009/9/9 Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com>:
>
>> From? Win7 is pretty but big and slow - it's not really any quicker
>> than Vista, as tests show, it just /feels/ quicker and PCs are faster
>> now than in 2007.
>
>
> Indeed. They've fixed the worst interface problems and made the
> interface lower latency, so it feels responsive - but mostly,
> computers have caught up with Vista rather than Vista being made
> faster. And there's hardware drivers now.
>
> And it's fine, you know. It works well enough. Anyone who's used KDE 4
> will find it familiar, a sort of cheap copy.

Yes, indeed.

And that is a worrying thing. Win7 is indeed "good enough". Nothing
radical, but it "leverages" (*shudder*) the power of more modern PCs
to make things a bit easier for noobs, a bit more colourful and
pretty, and to satisfy the idiots who think that comparisons between
Windows, Mac and Linux are all about "chrome" and visual pizzazz.

Which is going to make it harder for Mac and Linux to compete, and
that is a bad thing.

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