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so the release happened today. I'm in the process of downloading the beta. Has anyone else gotten a chance to test this and what are your impressions?
FrothyChimp said:I've never been a Microsoft basher figuring business is business but since I also run UNIX and Linux machines I see the huge difference between a real operating system (UNIX and Linux) versus the bloated Microsoft products. An operating system is designed to do one thing and one thing only and that is to provided the software subsystems to be able to access and operate computer hardware and low level programming from high order software to achieve some end. I have a tough time finding much in the Microsoft operating system code that is actually related to the HAL (hardware abstraction layer). Their code is mostly layers and layers of fluff surrounded in layers and layers of code fixes from previous versions of Windows and various builds in the current version. Look hard enough and you will find code from Windows 95/3.0/3.11. So in their attempt to be all things to all people and maintain their near monopoly they have created a behemoth; a fat, sluggish, resource hungry system that doesn't do anything really well. Every time Moore's law cycles Microsoft is there to eat up the processing power just to run the OS.
I am very skeptical of Windows 7. They simply have not had enough time to create something truly new, nor innovative. I see Windows Vista encapsulated by this Windows 7 fluff, being nothing more than a really big patch for the existing Vista OS. Of all the Microsoft operating systems produced, the finest was actually 2000 with XP a far second (since the code really bloated under XP) If there were any real way I could get away from Microsoft I would but in the business world it's simply not possible.
I really hope Microsoft proves me wrong but I doubt it.
just wait til they add all the stuff in the real release and see how buggy it gets... they like to leave alot of stuff out when they release betas. i downloaded it the other day but havent burned the disk yet.Snytbaggen said:It's also surprisingly stable for a beta..