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Why Microsoft can't afford Windows 7 to fail

• michaelcampbell 17y ago
  It won't. Does anything truly think it will? I'm no MS shill, but I haven't heard any "faults" from anyone using Win 7 that will affect the vast majority of users, and that's where their bread and butter is.
• rmason 17y ago
  Very suspicious of all the hype. Vista had a lot of over the top enthusiasm and we know how that one turned out.
  • ezy 17y ago
    Vista was really obviously bad on release. I mean really unusably bad. It wasn't just that it was only on par with XP, it was substantially worse. Windows 7 is quite different. It's not going to blow you away, but it works and looks a better than XP. The "bit" better puts it right about on par with OSX for various tasks -- although the GUI consistency is off because Windows as a far longer history than OSX, and can't afford to blow off bw compat (that's part of the Vista error). There are parts that still feel like they're stuck in 1991 (especially the command line), but that's Windows for you -- and I don't expect that to change. If anything worries me, it's MSFT itself. Their management really stinks, which makes me question how stable the internals of the system are -- are they managing the development of windows more tightly than, lets say, their mobile effort? One hopes so... but one never knows for sure.
• makecheck 17y ago
  The article listed at least one thing -- compatibility with older Windows versions -- that isn't part of every version of Windows 7. I hate this kind of marketing soup: nobody knows what Windows 7 will really be like, because articles and commercials can claim anything that's in the $399 version. It's time for someone to upgrade a 10-year-old-laptop after spending $100 on the cheapest version of Windows 7, and write an article about that "Windows 7".