Microsoft wants you to "Get the Facts Straight"

[Stephen]

Liam Proven wrote:
> 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.
>
>   
Windoze 7 isn't good enough. Think man 5,000 viruses that can attack 
windoze 7, and only 500 that can attack linux. I don't know how many 
viruses that can attack a Mac.

Stephen.
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