Vista Review

Windows 7 is now available – hey have you heard about the “endless reboot”? Well, it turns out that many people have been patiently awaiting Windows 7. Microsoft said that the pre-orders for Windows 7 were greater than all sales for Vista the entire time it’s been on sale (hype).

According to support forums and this article on Computerworld many people upgrading from Vista to Windows 7 are having problems. The install halts at 63%, never finishes, and then the system endlessly reboots – leaving the user with no Vista and no Windows 7. People are really pissed. The fix? There isn’t one yet…LOL.

Is Windows 7 Poised to Piss on Windows Vista? If you believe the hype, they say that Windows 7 has already taken more pre-orders than Vista sold during it’s entire run to date! Pretty impressive – huh? I guess if they actually fired the whole Vista team and build a new versio of Windows that’s (they say) leaner and meaner than even XP – it’s probably worth a look eh? If you ask me, all those pre-orders add up to is corporations that HAVE to get off XP come hell or high water and Windows 7 is their only choice. If they’re luck – it just MIGHT work right!

C|Net Video Review of windows 7

Windows 7 Review back in May 2009

Engadget Windows 7 Review

The video reviews were nice but in my opinion if you want a honest and full featured review, the Engadget Windows 7 Review is the only one that really counts.

Here’s Windows 7 on Wikipedia as well.

Will you be upgrading to Windows 7?

Everyone seems to think that Windows 7 will be worth the wait and much better than Windows Vista. I laughed when I read this post that basically said Windows Vista is president Bush and Windows 7 is president Obama. It also mentions that some people are gonna be plenty pissed to have to pay yet another $150 to upgrade to Windows 7.

It looks like one of the features everyone is looking forward to in Windows 7 is drastically improved security (that was soooo lacking in Vista). It looks like they’re starting to learn that the people in marketing and sales are also to blame for massive failure, since the the “Vista Capable” fiasco could end up costing them $8.5 BILLION!

Are you looking forward to Windows 7?

There’s all kinds of Windows news about this week, including the new version of Mac OS – Snow Leopard. It seems there was no mention of it at MacWorld, and it was Apple’s chance to beat the Windows 7 launch in mid-2009.
It seems as though in an attempt to foster good thoughts after the bungled “Vista Ready” campaigns, Microsoft will offer free Windows 2007 upgrades for anyone that buys a PC after June 2009. Is that really a deal? I mean come on – windows 7 is supposed to be out by that date. They should offer Windows 7 for free to anyone who buys a PC in 2009 period. Looks like there are 2 restrictions to the upgrades, you have to upgrade to the same language version, and you have to upgrade to the straight path (ultimate to ultimate, etc).

You know, this recent article reminds me of one Vista quirk I never wrote about, the fact the IE stores all it’s downloads in My documents -> Downloads folder. It’s funny I think that Windows seems to remind you about every GD thing in the universe you don’t want to know about (storing passwords, visiting secure sites) – but it never bothers to tell you where the downloads go. New users are just confused until they figure it out.

I read a post about Michael Dunner comparing Vista and Windows 7 security, bringing to the surface once again the problems with the evil UAC (User Account Control) in Vista. This is by far the most annonying feature that Microsoft has ever invented. I’ve blogged about this before – but how come each and every time that the IT rags write about UAC they don’t just come out and say that Microsoft was blatantly copying Linux (Ubuntu) when they created UAC? I mean, come on – in Ubuntu Linux even if you were the one that setup the PC you have your own account separate from root. If you try to do something on Ubuntu that your privelege does not allow, it prompts you for the “root” password So many things in Vista are blatant rip-offs of both Mac OS X (based on UNIX anyway) and Linux it’s not funny – from UAC, to the sidebar, Aero, screen and window effects, and more…the “new” versions of Windows are oh so….COPIED!

I came across another feature I didn’t know about in Vista this week, it’s the hidden checkboxes feature. Wish I’d known about this one awhile back.

You might also like to know about the new “Pre-Boot shells” that are coming available with some newer laptops. You can surf the web without ever entering windows and save up to 25% of your battery life at the same time. Pretty cool. My laptop has a Linux/Vista dual boot – and 95% of my time is spent in Linux anyway.

A lot of people are talking about Windows 7, and really do wonder if the release date will actually be June 2009 or not. There seem to be many people testing it, and in fact this post says that it boots faster than both XP and Vista. It looks like at first glance too, that Windows 7 is only having one “ready” sticker. Does that mean it will only have one version? With Windows 7 coming out, it makes you think about all the versions of Windows that came before it…did you know that Microsoft just stopped selling Windows 3.1 licenses? That really shocked me…

Vista is a piece of crap, really makes me laugh. It’s sooooo like the problems people have with vista everyday.

In Windows 7 – will Microsoft pry open your wallet and start taking out cash on a regular basis?? I’m not so sure….

In my last post I talked about the fact that Microsoft is going to try and release the next version of Windows (Windows 7) as early as June 2009. Then today I read that Windows 7 will replace some Native Windows app with “Live.com” services.

Whaa?? I mean, WTF??

For YEARS Microsoft has been jamming every known feature they could think of into Windows. A CD burning app, a calendar, an e-Mail client, a web browser, a media player, a video editor, an instant messaging app, and more. They have labored long and hard wtih millions of dollars and lots of lawyers to get courts worldwide to believe all these functions were “meant to be native in Windows” and it was OK to CRUSH or put out of business companies like Netscape, Eudora, ICQ, Ulead, Nero, and more.

They are going to tell you that by putting these apps on live.com customers will benefit by getting the latest version sooner (without bugs) – but they forget to tell you their entire decisive evil plan. Microsoft search is DEAD LAST in the search engine wars, and MSN has failed for years, MSN Spaces is NOTHING like WordPress.com, LiveJournal, MySpace, or Facebook, and even Hotmail has fallen to the mighty gmail.

By forcing you to go to Live.com – Microsoft can shove whatever advertisements they want down your throat will you use their “FREE” apps. They can’t shove an ad on your desktop just yet for the latest NBC sit-coms when you open Outlook Express – so in Windows 7 you’ll just get no email program and when you click the icon go to “live.com” where you will be FORCEFED ADS until you puke whether you like it or not!

Do you think it will stop there? Oh hell no!! With Outlook Express you can store UNLIMITED amounts of email on your local hard drive. You can keep the last 5 years of messages of you want. Get a new PC next summer and all your email will be stored in Live.com’s servers, and when you use up too much space you will be forced to either delete old emails OR pay them a MONTHLY FEE for what was previously FREE as part of Windows on your local computer.

Now – they will also say that your email is “safer” (against hard drives crashes and being lost forever) on Live.com’s servers – but it’s also now not in your hands and “could” be hacked from the public Internet by someone anywhere in the world (as Sarah Palin just found out!).

Guess what – in Windows 7 you also won’t have a Photo Gallery or Movie maker either! Oh – and you won’t have Windows Writer (Wordpad) either! This all (in my opinion) works into Microsoft’s evil plan to force you to store ALL YOUR MEDIA, documents, digital pictures, and movies ON THEIR SERVERS. This way when you have too much you WILL HAVE TO PAY THEM A MONTHLY FEE TO STORE IT!

They may boast security, backup, ability to access your files from any PC and Internet connection, but in MY HONEST OPINION it’s a blatant attempt to get Microsoft into your wallet EACH AND EVERY MONTH!! If you thought that Windows Vista was expensive – do the math if you’re paying Microsoft $29.95 per month for functionality that was previously PART of WINDOWS!! You might as well buy a screen, keyboard, and mouse and say you’re going to lease Windows by the month!

F-U Windows, I am so ready to go Ubuntu from here on out it’s not even funny! If you’re going to do what I think you are – the next version of Windows might even be a BIGGER FLOP than Vista!

The register article Microsoft says ‘hasta la vista XP’ is so timely. It loos like Windows 7 (to be released in Jan 2010) is really gonna be Vista mock 2, and built on the same “core architecture”. Basically they’re saying – no surprised, we’re gonna fix it this time – really! In addition, OEM’s can still sell XP Professional until early 2009. So what happens between 2009 and 2010 is what I want to know! I guess, just don’t buy a PC or laptop that year at all.

I would hash out all the BS in Vista they should fix, but why when Let’s Not Repeat the Vista Mistakes in Windows 7 does it so well already!

It was important that Microsoft confirmed the Jan 2010 release date, but more importantly MS – can you clue us in along the way on what you’ll actually be doing with it? What’s included? Will you take ANY of our millions of suggestions into consideration? I doubt it.