[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

conversation piece.?

[big'ol_freeper]

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.

[rom]

New packaging, same cruddy product.

[Big_Monkey]

I've been using 7 for six months and I really like it. It's very stable (especially the RC release) and very intuitive. I don't know enough about Apple to compare or contrast the difference.

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.

[savedbygrace]

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.

[Terpfen]

Has Microsoft, after more than 20 years of work, finally come up with an operating system that rivals the Mac OS?

7 is still chained to the Start Menu, so, no.

[lormand]

At home, I have Mac OS X, Windows 7 RC, and Linux Ubuntu.

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.

[Uri’el-2012]

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.

[raybbr]

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

[DemonDeac]

How many times have we heard this before?

[surfer]

Windows 7 actually works really well. The 64 big implementation really performs.

[LiberConservative]

I listen to a lot of tech podcasts (Leo LaPorte, NPR, Tech Stuff, etc.) and I have heard nothing but RAVE reviews of Windows 7 Beta. From all indications it might very well be the best Windows OS - EVER.

[Swordmaker]

ZDNet writer thinks that OS X and Windows 7 are basically the same GUI—PING!

What do you think?

Mac v Windows Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[McGruff]

Hadley Stern, writing for Apple Matters, thinks this might be the case.

Got Objectivity?

[Tribune7]

The biggest problems I’ve had with Windows are DRM & malware. I doubt 7 is not going be Unix based so I suspect security is still going to be a bigger concern than on a Mac.

[RightOnTheLeftCoast]

Okay. For some technical work I must do, I’ve needed a new Windows installation, so I set up Boot Camp on my Mac and downloaded/installed the Release Candidate for Win 7.

It’s not bad. Unfortunately, it’s not particularly good either. It’s different enough from XP to annoy users whose first prerogative is to endure as little change as possible. There’s enough new about the way it works that some might wonder if they might as well look at entirely different OSes. And my impression of the interface is one of clunkiness in a fancy wrapper, like a Big Mac on fine Wedgwood china. At least in this release-candidate configuration, it lacks the silkiness and intuitiveness of OS X and doesn’t quite have the responsiveness that I was really hoping it would have. Stability has been good, though. I’ll have more to say about compatibility after a few more days of work with it. But my sense is that Apple doesn’t have much to worry about.