Comments on: Windows 7 http://rickmahn.com/2008/10/13/windows-7/ my perspectives on the social web, personal branding, and connecting people Sun, 14 Mar 2010 00:30:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Rick Mahn http://rickmahn.com/2008/10/13/windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-31882 Rick Mahn Tue, 14 Oct 2008 04:04:28 +0000 http://rickmahn.com/2008/10/13/windows-7/#comment-31882 Most of what I outlined is simply marketing pieces. Some like removing WMP and IE has been known about for years. Windows 7 is <em>supposed</em> to be more modular, so it'd be easi<em>er</em> to do this. That "sorry carcass" you call Vista is actually a pretty great operating system. It's a shame MS never tried to catch up with early negative reviews and respond to them before the media steamroller branded Vista for them. Like all OSes, it has it's quirks, it has it's failings, but it's nothing like it's made out to be. A shame really - something that "Mojave Experiment" highlights. At any rate, these are just a few ideas and opinions from an IT guy that's been working with Windows since 1990. I've used most all major OSes and come back to Windows 'cause it just gets the job done for the least amount of cost and frustration. Most of what I outlined is simply marketing pieces. Some like removing WMP and IE has been known about for years. Windows 7 is supposed to be more modular, so it’d be easier to do this.

That “sorry carcass” you call Vista is actually a pretty great operating system. It’s a shame MS never tried to catch up with early negative reviews and respond to them before the media steamroller branded Vista for them. Like all OSes, it has it’s quirks, it has it’s failings, but it’s nothing like it’s made out to be. A shame really – something that “Mojave Experiment” highlights.

At any rate, these are just a few ideas and opinions from an IT guy that’s been working with Windows since 1990. I’ve used most all major OSes and come back to Windows ’cause it just gets the job done for the least amount of cost and frustration.

]]> By: theTRQ http://rickmahn.com/2008/10/13/windows-7/comment-page-1/#comment-31881 theTRQ Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:24:51 +0000 http://rickmahn.com/2008/10/13/windows-7/#comment-31881 Rick, I read that Win7 is being built upon the sorry carcass of Vista, a truly huge pile of code. How can they do what you've outlined above? Rick,
I read that Win7 is being built upon the sorry carcass of Vista, a truly huge pile of code. How can they do what you’ve outlined above?

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