Comments on: Could people learn to love Microsoft once more?

By: GW

GW — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:23:50 +0000

Sorry I meant partisan RAGE. grrrrr!

By: GW

GW — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:20:10 +0000

Woah! “Moron”, “MS haters”. There is a weird amount of partisan range and irrationality here when talking about 2 companies which make computer stuff. MS, Google and Apple are all doing realy well, producing great products, competing in similar spaces, and that can only be good for consumers. Chill out, stop being such douchebags to each other enjoy the tech!

By: stokegabriel

stokegabriel — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:45:52 +0000

Richard asks if I have ever tried Win7 (6.1)the truthful answer is dabbled a few times but it’s a bit like getting someone who has a company car to be interested in buying a car. The fact is what I have works fine, until I see some compelling reason to change or a must have feature my wallet is staying in my pocket. What I would really be tempted to buy is a really nice keyboard just like those micro-switch ones that IBM used to make aeons ago.
The reason I went on about the 6.1 version issue is that I think Win7 is what Vista should have been, given that Vista doesn’t work properly (not on the occasions I’ve used it) and I firmly hold the opinion that it should be a free upgrade for Vista.
Will we ever love M$, no and I will tell you why. years ago Skoda was a very poor eastern block car maker, whose products were the subject of much ridicule. today they are owned by VW and are as well engineered as any VAG car. Would you want one, no of course not, a Skoda will never be cool. It would not matter if M$ made the most fantastic OS, Macs’ are cool and PCs’ aren’t, that’s just the way it is, and it will be the same in 5 years time. And no I don’t have a mac either. The truth is anything to do with computers is rapidly becoming boring to most people. And whoever said PC Pro meant professional? you won’t find it in the mag, for me it’s PC Pro(test) so there.

By: stardada

stardada — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 18:14:35 +0000

Running W7 RC1 and yes more stable, speedy and reliable than a paid for Vista Spx. The reality is, dweebs run the world and conceived every computer since Archimedes, so please cut them some slack. Want to see bad love, try public sector IT.

By: Bioreit

Bioreit — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 15:55:39 +0000

@ Chris

You do realise you’re reading PC Pro(fessional), right? Maybe not the best place to be criticising ‘dweebs and tech-journalists’. Like harping on in a F1-fanboy forum about ‘petrol-heads’…

Good article – I definitely think Microsoft are bringing their public image – and corporate mentality – around. Wonder how much of this new approach has been down to the Xbox/360 Entertainment divisions? By several accounts, they’re much more relaxed and innovative than the standard PC-Windows sections of the company.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:23:41 +0000

I’m fully prepared to have to loathe Windows 7. (In the same way I loathed Titanic, the movie, which I’ve never managed to watch in one sitting). Will all those singing its praises damn well shut up and let me find out for myself when it’s released?

As for the argument, “well you could download it already and try it for yourself”. I’m sorry, that’s just dweebs and tech-journalists who do that, I only use production ready software on my machines.

By: Peter Lanado

Peter Lanado — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:39:54 +0000

Checking, checking, checking… Still only getting two words, hell & over.

By: muck

muck — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:48:13 +0000

oh and I think you’ll find that it was assigned 6.1 to minimize compatibility with programs already running on Vista

By: muck

muck — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 07:44:15 +0000

@stokegabriel

6.0, 6.1. They are just numbers created by Microsoft. They were not assigned those numbers by any divine intervention. Instead of worrying about numbers and ignoring the pretty much global positive reviews, give the OS a go and see if it’s just a bit of paint on Vista.
Out of interest, which OS do you use?

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 06:30:26 +0000

@stokegabriel
Have you actually tried W7?