Posted on 06/04/2009 2:25:23 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Has Microsoft, after more than 20 years of work, finally come up with an operating system that rivals the Mac OS? Are the two just different flavors of the same GUI?
Hadley Stern, writing for Apple Matters, thinks this might be the case.
It may have taken Microsoft 20 odd years to figure this one out but there is some pretty big news on the horizon. Of course the market-share battle is lost for Apple, although it continues to chip away here and there. But the innovation-share battle continues. And the big big big news:
Windows 7 Doesn’t Really Suck
…
Unless Apple is hiding something very very very big with Snow Leopard Apple is about to lose the high-ground (and bullying rights) when it comes to its operating system. The blunders of Vista were easy to pick at, picking on Windows 7 will be nitpicking at best, stupidity at worst. For all intents and purposes Snow Leopard and Windows 7 are two flavors of the same GUI.
I’m not so sure. Why?
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Microsoft has proven over and over again, they would f-up a wet dream. I doubt Windows 7 will be as seamless and problem free as the Mac OS.
New packaging, same cruddy product.
I've got 7 on all the machines in the house (which is a big number), and the processors are everything from a 1.4GHz Celeron Laptop to a i7 940 Desktop, and they all run great on it. There's some games that don't work, but frankly they're older games that my kids really don't use anymore. All in all, I give 7 a big thumbs up.
He seems to confuse the GUI with the OS a lot.
There are significant differences, all the way to the bone, between Mac OS X v10.6 and Windows 7, or at least there soon will be, as soon as both are released.
At work I use both IE8 and Firefox and use various flavors of Linux. I have no emotional attachment to any of those, and find it very strange to see/hear people go nuts over one or the other.
Poor Adrian must be smoking crack.System 7 is NT with this years shade of lipstick.
Mac OS X 10.6 is BSD Unix at its core
not some cobbled together single
user system with more patches than base code.
I have a question somewhat off topic: I use Firefox. In Firefox you can increase or decrease the size of the fonts by holding down the ctrl button and scrolling the mouse.
I recently bought a nice Acer widescreen LCD monitor and have set my resolution to the 1.6:1. It took some time to get the icons and fonts so as I can read them.
Everything gets bigger except the flash screen size. If I am watching Gameday on MLB.com and want to watch a video the screen is minute. Changing the size doesn’t help.
Any ideas?
Ray
Have you used it? I have Windows 7 RC running on my ThinkPad and it is excellent. Microsoft should be proud of this product.
I’m glad it works out for you :)
But I like being able to do things like installing apps by dragging and dropping into my Apps folder, and moving my user folder to another Mac and still having all my apps run, and I like being able to use UNIX as my command shell.
Oh, I also like booting systems off of each others’ hard drives and being able to boot my machine off of Firewire.
So, I’ll install Win 7 on my work machine since Vista really blows on it (it still cannot remember which monitor is which in my laptop / dual monitor setup at work, argh!).
But for home? I still prefer OS X since its internals are a bit nicer for the sort of computing *I* do :)
You are out of my league....no help on Windows.
Me too. I've run it on a variety of machines both at work and at home. It was a pleasant surprise.
As for the Mac? It's a Mac. In Consumer Report's latest PC issue the Mac dominates all 3 laptop categories. But none of them are recommended or considered a good buy because of the cost.
Macs were built to last. Who knew though that computers - especially laptops (notebooks, whatever) - would become disposable?
If you had a Mac that feature is built into the OS :)
I was excited when I saw that Firefox on the PC had that feature of increasing fonts and picture sizes — but sadly I found that video didn’t change.
What you can do is manually set your video resolution in the Windows control panel to something lower when watching the game?
I sneer at your indecent Win 7. Furthermore, I arrogantly denounce you and all your sordid ways, which I shall shortly expose if you continue with this unjustified attack on a superior product.
I upgraded to Vista when it first came out. It was an unmitigated disaster. My rage was so severe that it's all a little hazy now, but I remember something about burning Bill Gates in effigy. I swore that I'd never upgrade to another MS OS again.
Then, someone at FR downloaded one of the earlier 7 test releases and had very nice things to say. So, like a sucker, I upgraded a machine I had laying around that was only a year old. Like you, I was surprised by it's performance. It's ease of installation and other improvements over XPpro and Vista are very significant. Not the least of which is 32bit 7 recognized all 4GB of memory, where XP only recognized 3(ish).
When 7RC came out last month, I upgraded everyone of my family's machines without a single driver, peripheral or software conflict. There were some bugs in 7beta that have been fixed. My kids tell me that they like it with the exception of WMP12. I'm not sure what they don't like about it and I don't use it myself. But, I like IE8, although I still primarily use FF3. There are a couple of small things that are a little goofy, but for a non-sale-able OS, I think it's very strong.
How many times have we heard this before?
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