txnetcop
September 10th, 2009, 03:33
I saw Wired 7 reasons to avoid Windows 7 and wanted to go postal on the writer, Brian Chen (an APPLE MAC lackey)-talk about nit-piking!
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/7-reasons-to-avoid-windows-7/
There were countless individuals-engineers and end-users working tirelessly to make Windows 7 the best possible release. It wasn't done behind closed doors by self-serving geeks interesting in getting their fat checks, but instead Microsoft made it an Open project for anyone who wanted to contribute time, skill and effort. They had a beta release and a release candidate and asked for input-absolutely unheard of in Windows, Sun Micro-systems, and Mac circles.
Even TechCorp got in on the action-for FREE! After three weeks of deep testing a group of software and hardware engineers at TechCorp submitted a list of fixes and issues concerning Windows 7RC. To our surprise Microsoft is already at work on their first Service Pack. We found far fewer issues with Windows 7RC than with Vista SP1.
In case you think it is easy, the creation of a list of 80+ fixes(Vista Ultimate had over 500 fix requests on release) took 21 engineers an average 10 hours a day for 16 days. James It looks like Windows 7 will be the best release Microsoft has done since Windows 98SE. Fortunately Windows 7RC has been a better release than Vista Release 1
Below is a Technet list. Glad to see so many end-users at work to make this a better product.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd349347%28WS.10%29.aspx
I also highly recommend getting familiar with VMWare for PC and Mac for power users
http://www.vmware.com/
VMWare Fusion 2.0 for Mac
http://www.soft82.com/download/mac/vmware-fusion/
http://www.vmware.com/
Ted
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/7-reasons-to-avoid-windows-7/
There were countless individuals-engineers and end-users working tirelessly to make Windows 7 the best possible release. It wasn't done behind closed doors by self-serving geeks interesting in getting their fat checks, but instead Microsoft made it an Open project for anyone who wanted to contribute time, skill and effort. They had a beta release and a release candidate and asked for input-absolutely unheard of in Windows, Sun Micro-systems, and Mac circles.
Even TechCorp got in on the action-for FREE! After three weeks of deep testing a group of software and hardware engineers at TechCorp submitted a list of fixes and issues concerning Windows 7RC. To our surprise Microsoft is already at work on their first Service Pack. We found far fewer issues with Windows 7RC than with Vista SP1.
In case you think it is easy, the creation of a list of 80+ fixes(Vista Ultimate had over 500 fix requests on release) took 21 engineers an average 10 hours a day for 16 days. James It looks like Windows 7 will be the best release Microsoft has done since Windows 98SE. Fortunately Windows 7RC has been a better release than Vista Release 1
Below is a Technet list. Glad to see so many end-users at work to make this a better product.
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd349347%28WS.10%29.aspx
I also highly recommend getting familiar with VMWare for PC and Mac for power users
http://www.vmware.com/
VMWare Fusion 2.0 for Mac
http://www.soft82.com/download/mac/vmware-fusion/
http://www.vmware.com/
Ted