<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=windows-1252" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Liam Proven wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:575131af0909090807y7e65fd1n2b11e5eb8ff9c77e@mail.gmail.com" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 3:52 PM, David Gerard<a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:dgerard@gmail.com"><dgerard@gmail.com></a> wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">2009/9/9 Liam Proven <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:lproven@gmail.com"><lproven@gmail.com></a>: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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. </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap=""> 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. </pre> </blockquote> 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.<br> <br> Stephen.<br> </body> </html>