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An Unexpected Aquarium Experience
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| One point here that bears noting: I've gotten so used to Linux that I didn't
| bother to think about system performance issues when I installed the iso into
| the Virtual Box. The ISO and the virtual drive happened to be on the same
| physical drive and even worse in the same partition. Installation took over 2
| hours. When I realized what I had done, I realized one user issue that isn't
| easily addressed by Linux, if you have more than one drive and you like to
| jack the performance up, having two drives actually improves performance. The
| caveat being that if you're reading from one and writing onto another volume,
| they need to be on separate physical drives.
|
| After doing a lot of other things while Visaster SP2 (Windows 7) installed,
| I'd look in on it and watch what was going on. Somewhere along the way I
| wondered why the sunlight was streaming down from the sky on the desktop.
| Yeah I have to admit a really nasty semi-biblical thought passed. Then
| somewhere along the way the Siamese fighting fish pops up. Oh OK, I
| think, "We're under water". I wasn't sure if that was a counter-play to Aero
| or not but I laughed anyway.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10011865o-2000440676b,00.htm
BetaVista 7: the last nail on Windows' coffin.
Recent:
Microsoft's Windows 7 Vista replacement plan
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| No, if Microsoft really wants to make its customers happy, they should do
| what my friend Jason Perlow suggests, "since Windows 7 is essentially a
| performance and usability fix for a defective product, I'm of the increasing
| opinion that a Windows 7 upgrade should be free to anyone who was conned into
| buying Windows Vista."
|
| You know, he has a good point. While I personally think you'd be a lot better
| off with buying a new Mac or moving over to Fedora, openSUSE or Ubuntu, if
| you still want to stick with Windows even after suffering with Vista,
| Microsoft should give you a copy of Windows 7 for free. After all, haven't
| you suffered enough?
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/Microsofts_Windows_7_Vista_replacement_plan
The sound of empire falling
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| There’s another problem. Vista is so dead that Microsoft is already touting
| its successor “System 7". Not end-of-lifing XP on schedule means they’ll
| actually have to support three different operating systems for at least the
| years until System 7 ships, and some time afterward. Even Microsoft is going
| to feel the strain, and ISVs are likely to play safe by writing to the
| minimum (XP) specification.
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http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=647
Deja Vista?
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| Yet when InfoWorld gave Windows 7 a through benchmarking and shakedown, the
| result was the same ill foreboding that accompanied pre-release Vista (and
| proved all too accurate).
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http://www.microsplot.com/blog/2008/11/deja_vista
Windows 7 doomed by economic outlook
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| Microsoft CEO, the shy and retiring, softly spoken Steve Ballmer admitted
| that this was happening and seems to be slowly walking away from Vista.
|
| [...]
|
| It could be that this will be the moment for Linux to make its long awaited
| rise to fame. If firms want to cut costs but upgrade hardware then Linux
| ideas are probably the only way to go forward. Indeed some companies will be
| able to keep their older hardware for a bit longer.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/20/windows-doomed-economic-outlook
Windows 7’s biggest threat: journalists
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| ZDNET.MICROSOFT.COM, Blogosphere.NET, Wednesday (NNGadget) — As Microsoft
| continues to prepare for the 2009 2010 launch of Windows 7, it today issued a
| plea through its network of objective opinion-shapers: Don’t let the
| journalists near it.
|
| Microsoft MSDN software disk scarecrow in cornfield“We understand that many
| journalists use Macs,” said CNet marketing marketer Don Reisinger. “This
| means they necessarily suckle at the Satanic rear passage of Steve Jobs. We
| cannot countenance their bias. Journalists are responsible for all those
| signs outside computer shops offering to replace Vista with XP. When was the
| last time you saw the entire technology field stop and wait for an
| announcement from any other company besides Apple? It’s so unfair!”
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http://notnews.today.com/2008/11/12/windows-7s-biggest-threat-journalists/
Windows 7 Unmasked
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| But after the stage props came down, and after the projectors finally went
| cold, attendees were left with a pre-beta copy of something that looked less
| like a new OS than the repackaging of an old one. At least that was my
| impression after I started exploring the Windows 7 M3 (Milestone 3) bits that
| came on my shiny new 160GB Western Digital USB hard disk (one of the better
| tchotchkes I've received at a conference). As I reported on my Enterprise
| Desktop blog, the more I dug into Windows 7, the more I saw an OS that looked
| and felt like a slightly tweaked version of Windows Vista.
|
| [...]
|
| Just what was so new about Microsoft's next Windows, apart from a rejuggled
| UI? Windows 7 appeared to suck memory like Vista, to consume CPU like Vista,
| and to have the same consumer focus. How would this product be received by
| enterprise customers, the vast majority of whom had soundly rejected its
| predecessor? After all, if Vista wasn't good enough for big business, then
| surely a Vista-derived encore would meet with a similarly chilly reception.
|
| [...]
|
| Otherwise, Windows 7 operates much like Vista. There are subtle visual tweaks
| here and there, but nothing on the level of the dramatic XP-to-Vista
| transition. Ironically, Vista users may be more annoyed by the UI changes
| than users coming from XP. Because the Windows 7 and Vista Aero experiences
| are so similar, seasoned users of Vista will be more likely to look in the
| wrong places for common functions. By contrast, XP users won't be burdened
| with now-outdated Aero navigation skills.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/153624/windows_7_preview.html?tk=rss_news
Re:Actually, maybe not fair
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| Based on the announcements on Windows 7 and the reviews I thought too that
| they had improved the performance of Windows 7 vs. Vista. Then I found an
| article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols that might explain the "glowing" reviews
| at Microsoft's PDC. It seems that Microsoft may have permanently "loaned"
| $2,000 laptops with 2.4GHz Intel dual cores + 3GB ram to the "reviewers" to
| review Windows 7. If so, that's not the first time they tried that stunt
| (Vista was the first that I recall). So in the answer to the question, "Can a
| leopard change its spots?" if the above is correct then the answer in
| Microsoft's case seems to be "No."
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http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/02/0130253&from=rss
Microsoft bribes again?
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| But, if as appears may be the case Microsoft is letting people have Dell XPS
| M1330 laptops with 2.4GHz Core 2 Duo processors and 3GBs of RAM
| on 'indefinite loans (wink, wink) then it's a bribe in my book. What do you
| think? If you knew someone had been given a PC with a list price of $1,956
| and then wrote nice things about the operating system that came with it would
| you be inclined to think that they might be just a wee bit influenced by the
| almost two grand worth of computer?
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/microsoft_bribes_again
Blacklisted by Microsoft!
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| Basically, they blacklisted me from certain super-secret (i.e.
| pre-conference, NDA, off-the books) sessions at their Professional Developer
| Conference (PDC) –- this after formally inviting me to attend those sessions
| as an "esteemed reviewer" representing InfoWorld.
|
| [...]
|
| Oct. 9, 2008 -- A short while later, I get my first hit. It seems that the
| whole mess started when the Windows Server team made the mistake of inviting
| yours truly to an event hosted by the Windows Client team. Apparently, the
| folks on the Server team were unaware of my decidedly negative views towards
| Vista, and when the Client folks found out they had invited Randall C.
| Kennedy -– a.k.a. Vista's most vocal and effective critic -– to their
| special, "for fanbois only" (nice photos, Paul) shindig, they went ballistic.
|
| First, it appears that someone high up on the Client Team (Steve?) really
| doesn't like me. I mean, really, truly loathes me. And it's not just your
| run-of-the-mill frustration with a journalist who picks on them. This thing
| is personal, and the executive in question is allowing his or her personal
| feelings to spill over into the company's handling of formal press relations
| with InfoWorld.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2008/10/blacklisted_by.html
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