>> "Demand for the public beta version of Windows 7 was so >> great that Microsoft actually had capacity issues on >> Friday..." > > Do you think they deliberately crashed their servers as > a publicity stunt or are their server management abilities > really that poor? Did not anyone at the company plan ahead > to avoid a repetition of the Vista beta follies? > > It certainly does not build confidence. I would expect this > was one more reason why ecommerce sites should avoid their > software.
Tom, I've tried hard to understand your motivations and why you say the things you do. I don't care if you like Apple and dislike MS. I don't care if you criticize MS; they have done plenty of things wrong, and there's a lot of room for legitimate criticism. But some of your posts, this one included, pass understanding. The article Jeff linked to included phrases like: "easily one of the best operating systems I've ever used." "delightfully fast" "Driver support is outstanding" "using Windows much easier than in previous iterations" "the experience was delightful" "combines all the best features from Windows XP and Vista, as well as Mac OS X" "the enterprise will be absolutely delighted with Windows 7" "I'll be using a Windows 7 machine as my main computer and telling anyone who will listen that, believe it or not, using the latest Microsoft operating system really is worth it." The article is nothing short of a rave review. And it was written not by some MS shill but by a self-professed Apple fan who wrote the article on his iMac and has purchased "just about every Apple product released over the past five years." He finds not one negative word to say. And yet you ignore all of this *completely* and continue to condemn MS and Windows 7 because of two things that have only to do with the beta test itself and not with the operating system: the glitch in delivering beta activation keys and the 24-hour delay while MS put more infrastructure online. You will say that problems with beta activation do relate to the OS, but the fact is that the problem was in the delivery of beta activation keys, not in the actual activation process. Since retail Windows users won't get activation keys this way, the issue has no relevance to those who will eventually purchase Win7. As for the delay in releasing the public beta, MS was surprised by the volume it experienced with the private beta, so, rather than having users experience lengthy delays in downloading the public beta, it delayed the release for 24 hours and added more iron. Again, this has nothing to do with whether Win7 is good or bad. You have no comments at all on Windows 7 itself. It really seems like you haven't tried it, and don't care. Have you tried it, and you don't like it? It crashes, it's slow, it's ugly? We don't know; you haven't said anything at all about the OS that I can recall. It's as if a guy comes to work in a fine new suit, and everyone is complimenting him, but you are going around the office proclaiming to every who will listen, "That Joe, what a loser! Did you see the speck of lint on that moron's shoulder? Imagine coming to work like that! What an idiot!" It's very hard to understand; it makes no sense; and it becomes really difficult to take anything you say seriously. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
