Microsoft poised to make a Windows 7-fueled comeback
Microsoft and Mickey Rourke have more in common than you might think. Both went from being desirable to being painfully tolerated in an instant and both are now poised to make huge comeback. At this point we’re even giving slightly better odds to Windows 7 over The Wrestler, following the massive demand for Microsoft’s first publicly available 7 beta. Oh, and Windows install discs are made of plastic, just like Rourke. As announced by Ballmer during his keynote at CES, Redmond made Windows 7 available to the world yesterday, for free, but many have noticed that all download links have mysteriously disappeared from the 7 page. Did Microsoft change its mind? Of course not — it did hugely underestimate the demand for its upcoming OS however and the mass of PC users eager to check out the OS so many have been praising proved to be a bit too much for Microsoft’s servers to handle. Don’t worry folks, if you didn’t get there quickly enough to snag your copy of the ISO it should only be a short while now before it goes live again. Microsoft is working overtime beefing up the Microsoft.com infrastructure so it can handle the rush a bit more smoothly and once all of the Tetris blocks are in place, downloading can resume. Sure, it’s hard to say Microsoft is on the brink of a comeback since the company still owns over 89% of the computer OS market, but its Vista-scarred image will no doubt benefit from the homerun Windows 7 is hoping to hit.
“btdown”, you’re a moron! ‘nough said.
I BETA tested Vista, and now 7. I don’t care what others are saying; it’s nothing more than a Vista SP. It’s what Vista should have been. Anyone who shells out $$$ cash for this, who is already running Vista is a moron. Dock feature is lame. Same Gadgets as before. UI looks the same, other than some performance improvements [again, SP].
IFMS is smart, they’ll offer 7 as a very cheap upgrade to Vista users, and a regular upgrade cost to XP users. Also, keep the overall new purchase cost down. Offer Std and Ultimate. Ditch the other crap.
Me thinks this is the last chance MS has to redeem itself, in terms of a desktop OS…
AVG will install if you lower the UAC bar to one level above “off”. At least that’s how it worked for me. Interestingly, turning off UAC resulted in “corrupted file folder structure on drive C”, don’t know if this was coincidental.
Windows 7 is “vista on steroid”, nothing wrong with that. Despite the cries, I prefer vista over XP, windows 7 is poised to be the best microsoft os ever.
You know… judging by how many blogs rave about the CALCULATOR of Windows 7, I am definitely not expecting a real comback with 7. Windows is slowly beginning to wane.
I find it quite stunning really that those same people who bought hook,line and sinker the MS bull poo about the greatness of Vista so readily believed in the “new” OS in windows 7….All 7 is is the promised Vista….They just screwed up released it (Vista) before it was ready,Got a bad/unrepairable image to the name Vista, went ahead and finished the original product and will release it as Windows 7.Great PR move….Isn’t nice to know that all of you that spent $300. on Vista really were paying for a Beta product that will be known as windows 7…..in which they will charge you again as a new O.S….I think not only will I laugh in your direction.I may just point also…..
“I find it quite stunning really that those same people who bought hook,line and sinker the MS bull poo about the greatness of Vista so readily believed in the “new” OS in windows 7….All 7 is is the promised Vista….They just screwed up released it (Vista) before it was ready,Got a bad/unrepairable image to the name Vista, went ahead and finished the original product and will release it as Windows 7.Great PR move….Isn’t nice to know that all of you that spent $300. on Vista really were paying for a Beta product that will be known as windows 7…..in which they will charge you again as a new O.S….I think not only will I laugh in your direction.I may just point also”
And that, my friend, is why I’m a happy user of Arch Linux? What “latest” version? It’s rolling release! When new versions of my software come about upstream, I just have to do an update and I’ll get it in a few days. This also means if they screw up, I just wait for a few hours to a couple days while they fix it and the fix comes downstream to me, instead of two or three years. What $300 price tag? Arch is, like most other Linux distributions, free in both senses of the word. This means I won’t have to spend any money to get the latest “snapshot” release of Arch for reinstallation purposes, which I likely will never need as Linux has yet another thing over Windows: I’ll rarely, if ever, reinstall Linux. Whereas Windows it is practically standard procedure to reinstall when the meager allotment of repair options laid out to you is exhausted.
And that leads me to how readily I can recover from a reinstallation in Linux versus Windows: In Windows I absolutely have to back everything up. EVERYTHING! My Music, documents, data, settings, everything! In Linux, I don’t have to, because Linux uses the much more powerful unified file system, and since I have my home directory on a separate partition, I just have to copy some of my more favored global system configuration (/etc/X11/xorg.conf, for example.) to /home, point Linux to that partition during install time and say “this is “/home” and I’m done!
With Windows I have to copy EVERYTHING to something not linked to the Windows installation, which usually means tons of removable media and basically deciding what stays and what goes, and then a few hours doing file copying (Windows file system actions are disgracefully slow.). Then after the slow process of Windows installing itself (See above.) I have to copy everything BACK and hope it all works.
Then we have Windows 7 which is basically the “Windows Vista done right but still without most our promised features” release. And looking at the UI and feature, I have to cry, because it just looks like it just stole a bunch of Linux features. The GUI itself is a blatant copycat of KDE 3 AND 4. But Windows fanboys will pass it off as innovative and original.
I don’t see the point in using Windows when I already have such a damn superior choice in Linux. Seriously.