Saturday, January 10, 2009
W7 - the beta farce
Windows 7 isn't in Beta phase, it's in Beta farce! Blaming unexpectedly high traffic to their website, Microsoft pulled the plug on the 2.5 million public Beta downloads of W7 yesterday. Hardly a great start.
It clearly shows there's pent-up demand for a better version of Windows. XP was OK, but Vista was supposed to be better. In some ways it is, but it's also bloated and over-complicated. So Microsoft has wisely decided to cut bait, even before Vista SP2 is upon us, by pushing through the next-generation OS, Windows 7.
At least I hope it's the next-generation and not a poorly-disguised Vista SP2.
Disappointing to have to wait a little longer for the public Beta of 7. Let's hope it is worth it.
It clearly shows there's pent-up demand for a better version of Windows. XP was OK, but Vista was supposed to be better. In some ways it is, but it's also bloated and over-complicated. So Microsoft has wisely decided to cut bait, even before Vista SP2 is upon us, by pushing through the next-generation OS, Windows 7.
At least I hope it's the next-generation and not a poorly-disguised Vista SP2.
Disappointing to have to wait a little longer for the public Beta of 7. Let's hope it is worth it.
Labels: virtualization, Vista, Windows7
# posted by Nesjo : 15:27
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