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Win7 Marketing as Horsetradingby ~sethness

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Windows 7 isn't particularly "better" than WinXP. The best that can be said for it is "it's new. Ooh, shiny!"*

In fact, since it needlessly requires new hardware drivers**, has problems networking with WinXP and Apple computers, and needlessly hides/rearranges menus***, it's a marketing effort BUT NOT a design intended to make the user's life easy. Quite the reverse.

Worse, we all know that MS produces turds. WinXP has been around for a decade, so we know its flaws -- and have patched them -- 'til it's pretty functional. But Win7 offers nothing but being the shiny new turd, with as-yet unmapped flaws, being thrown at you by the 800 pound gorilla of Redmond.

*...which is why MicroScoffed refused to sell XP anymore: they knew we'd balk at buying the new JUNK, win7, if the old XP were still available.

**...so that hardware manufacturers can refuse to write them, forcing you to buy new hardware

***...to keep the Windows bookwriting industry busy> Whatever happened to trying to PLEASE THE CUSTOMER?!?!?!?

Eye candy like the "clear pane" windows is hardly sufficient enticement to coax us away from the devils we know, the XP we already understand & can use without buying new hardware, buying new books, and wasting our time reading up on needlessly rearranged O/S features.

~Rahzizzle Nov 1, 2010 Professional Interface Designer

Not to mention the "glass" look that makes text hard to read because it is transparent so they try to solve that by adding a glow around the text, lol. And now all the TO THE CLOUD! commercials... more like, TO AN IMAGE EDITING PROGRAM!

~sethness Nov 8, 2010

Cloud... you mean the halo around the letters, or are you changing the topic to *shudder* cloud computing?

Cloud computing seems like the dumbest, most selfish, most privacy-invasive idea to ever come out of a software company.

~Rahzizzle Nov 9, 2010 Professional Interface Designer

Couldn't agree more

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