So they are terrible for having everything tied together and horrible for having everything component-ized? Spoken like a true glitterati. You seem to be alone in your view since almost every review of W7 shows it was extremely well received. Course they've actually used W7 so they aren't basing their opinions on feelings.
I suppose Apple is just crappy too since this is the model for os x? Mike On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:24 PM, Tom Piwowar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The best we can hope for is that MS is lying. > > If this is the way MS intends to build its operating systems then W7 will > be even crappier and more dangerous than their previous atrocities. This > idea is even a bigger mistake than their > everything-is-connected-to-everything stupidity that makes their OS such > a playground for virus writers. > > Denying the old saying that "The whole is more than the sum of its parts" > will produce an OS that demos well but falls apart in real use. The > inconsistencies among its various parts, that should have been ironed out > early, will be even more maddening. There will be even more redundancies > as developers of isolated parts will have little idea about what others > are doing. There will be serious gaps in functionality for the same > reason. There will be really interesting and hard to diagnose > interactions among parts because the not tested together at an early > stage -- things like race conditions that don't show up when parts are > run in isolation. > > People are going to look back on Vista and call it the good old days. > > > >Windows 7 is a radical departure in the way MS builds it's OS. Instead of > >each feature being worked on and added in at various times and various > >stages of 'beta', these groups aren't allowed to include their code in 7 > >until it is ready to ship. if you'd been keeping up with the news about > 7, > >you'd know that developers and earlier reviewers have all said that 7 does > >not feel beta, but highly stable and usable..all features in the release > are > >ready, not a work in progress. If it still is needing work, the feature > is > >not included. Perhaps MS learned from last time not to promise the whole > >enchilada and deliver only a appetizer. > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > -- Make sure you support your local CarbonONset programs! ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
