Comments on: Visual Proof That Windows 7 Blows Mac OS X and Linux Away

By: Boycott Microsoft

Boycott Microsoft — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 02:55:35 +0000

What’s worse purchasing Windows 7 Starter “Cripple” Edition or experiencing buggy Windows 7,000 hidden flaws which Microsoft conceals as often as possible?

-> 32bit Only (Must use slower PC)
-> 1 CPU Supported Only (Must use crappy PC)
-> Cannot Create a Home Group (Don’t Share)
-> Cannot Backup to Network (No network back)
-> No Multiple Monitor Support
-> No Fast user switching
-> No Changeable Desktop Wallpaper
-> No Desktop Window Manager
-> No Windows Mobility Center
-> No Windows Aero Glass Themes
-> No Aero glass remoting
-> No Multitouch
-> No Premium Games Included
-> No Windows Media Center
-> No Windows Media Player Remote Media Experience
-> No Encrypting File System
-> No Location Aware Printing
-> No Remote Desktop Host
-> No Presentation Mode
-> No Windows Server domain joining
-> No Windows XP Mode
-> No AppLocker
-> No BitLocker Drive Encryption
-> No BranchCache Distributed Cache
-> No Direct Access
-> No Subsystem for Unix-based Applications
-> No Multilingual User Interface Pack
-> No Virtual Hard Disk Booting

Microsoft builds in all these restrictions, then plans to charge you big money to remove them. Is this the type of “Features” you want to purchase?

By: Karl

Karl — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 23:46:12 +0000

What a load of old crap,these stupid anti mac comments come from people with no experience of mac use other than a quick go and when they realised it was so different,they gave up only to critercise the system,I have regularly use various windows operating systems at friends and libraries for years and always found them tedious and illogical,but I can honestly say mac os 9 is better,I normally use Tiger,but have also used,cheetah,puma,jaguar and panther and all are vastly superior to the bug ridden windows operating systems,not to mention never having to worry about viruses.

By: Pakk99

Pakk99 — Sun, 17 May 2009 14:10:32 +0000

Um, knuckleheads, no RAM means virtualized memory on your HD. And sorry Charlie, but even SSHD’s do not run at the same speed as DDR2 memory. Those of you with NetBooks may love this feature, but it offers little of value to your average user. The smaller footprint is great, but hardly “blows away” OSX or Linux. Linux has run at full power on low-end machines out of a CD-sized partition for years, and Snow Leopard will reduce both the HD footprint and memory requirements of OSX far beyond Windows 7. Please, if you’re going to write a preview, at least be honest in your evaluation.

By: TSI

TSI — Sat, 09 May 2009 13:49:02 +0000

Windows 7 does seem to be a huge leap forward in terms of hardware requirements so should end up being a realistic option on netbooks.

I’m yet to be convinced that MS have done enough to get themselves back into the ultra-portable end of the market though and crack-pot ideas like the ’starter edition’ do nothing to reassure me.

Ubuntu 9.04 is a real beauty, the competition have most definitely upped their game and are gunning for disillusioned Windows users, interesting times!

By: fandigunawan

fandigunawan — Sat, 09 May 2009 00:36:24 +0000

I guess I have to tried it, since I’ve got bad feeling to Windows Vista. Ubuntu 9.04 will do good also for experiment. Nice info!.

By: tw

tw — Fri, 08 May 2009 23:25:31 +0000

I am running Windows 7 RC and Ubuntu 9.04 as a dual boot setup on a Samsung NC10 with 2g. Windows 7 runs great and feels very comfortable on this system, but the netbook remix of Ubuntu is even nicer and I find myself booting it more often than Windows 7 for almost everything (I use the netbook mainly for communication type work, email, web, light document work). The Linux installation is really tiny – if I were on a SSD system with limited disk space it would be the only way to go. Battery life seems fairly comparable between the two systems; can’t tell much difference so far.

By: plrang

plrang — Fri, 08 May 2009 13:24:25 +0000

So You can sell now Your not needed RAM to those running XP or some ;-}

By: kyle

kyle — Fri, 08 May 2009 04:04:26 +0000

Do you have all the proper drivers installed on your wind? I ask because my windows experience ratings are much better. Only upgrades are 2gb stick of g-skill ram and 320gb caviar blue hard drive.

processor – 2.8
memory – 4.8
graphics – 2.9
gaming graphics – 3.0
primary hard disk – 5.3

Also mine shows no ram in RC1 but it did in previous builds…odd.

By: spinedoc

spinedoc — Fri, 08 May 2009 00:54:19 +0000

Windows has always been more intuitive than Mac OS. I like a taskbar that always has my programs and documents instantly viewable and available, which is why I was surprised at the Windows 7 taskbar which I think is a step backwards towards the inane Mac dockbar.

As for performance, it’s awesome. I’ve got it on my P1620 and it just runs super smooth. Vista never ran badly on it, but never ran smoothly either.

Speaking of Mac, I have Windows 7 RC1 on my Macbook, not bootcamp, but a clean install with no Mac OS at all. Runs insanely nice and I only had to look for a couple of drivers on the Mac disk, otherwise Windows detected everything impressively.

By: w

Thu, 07 May 2009 21:38:44 +0000

I think most people will get Win7 only with a new computer. I never bought Windows without a new computer. There never was a need to upgrade on an existing system.

By: ziusudrablog

ziusudrablog — Thu, 07 May 2009 19:08:44 +0000

It is true that after the miserable failure of Vista, they are switching to a lighter, smaller system to please the users. This is good news.
Only, I have fun with Ubuntu 9.04 and the machines with XP professinal are running fine, after years of tweaking.
So why should anyone change ?
Maybe when buying a new computer this makes sense.
But MacOSX ( I even use OS9 it works !) and Linux are mature and stable. With Linux, forget serial numbers, updates. It is transparent compared with Windows.
Thanks.

By: vook

vook — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:09:40 +0000

*etch/sid
I’ll step off my high penguin now.

By: vook

vook — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:05:02 +0000

yaya
*since/sense

By: vook

vook — Thu, 07 May 2009 15:01:32 +0000

Hmm,

I have just a few questions about Windows 7 – and I ask these questions with the utmost humble since of respect for Microsoft and the Windows community. Really. No, no, I’m serious now, please!

Do we still have…………. The “drive letter” ? hmmm?
I had the fortunate opportunity to pose this question to Rick Rashid in January of 2008 at the Indiana University school of Informatics.

“Does Microsoft plan on at some point eliminating the drive-letter, and going with, perhaps, a backslash or a dot ? ”

Mr. Rashid was very gracious in his response – acknowledging my concerns about the drive letter and the Microsoft directory structure. He even agreed with me to the extent that a filesystem should have a single root, and that all directories (mount points, etc…) should ideally spawn off of root. I will sincerely be impressed if Microsoft has taken action to repair it’s deprecated filesystem and directory structure.

Second – how is swap space handled (Virtual Memory, paging file, etc…) ?

Does Microsoft still set up, by default, a growable swap area? If so, this is bad news. Swap space should have a static size and fixed location on the drive. It should not grow and shrink! If it does, this promotes what Windows users call fragmentation. Non-contagious data can be a non issue on a properly designed filesystem.

Does Microsoft plan to continue selling a product for “Home Users” with a broken networking stack? (kind of like selling someone a car without brakes, with the option to upgrade to brakes later).

Gosh, I’ll lay off – I have others.

Finally –
Ubuntu Linux != stable Linux
Debian GNU/Linux Lenny == stable Linux
Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze == testing Linux
Debian GNU/Linux Etch == unstable Linux
Debian GNU/Linux Etch + experimental packages == Ubuntu Linux

By: Arnaldo Capo

Arnaldo Capo — Thu, 07 May 2009 14:37:16 +0000

LOL! You got me there! I was like, NO RAM?!????

By: Gavin Miller

Gavin Miller — Thu, 07 May 2009 12:31:18 +0000

Hey Aaron.

I wouldn’t call it misinformation, more speculation at the moment until anything is fully confirmed!

As you point out, it is a license option for low cost PCs and similar.

You still got the M700? Tried Win 7 on it yet?