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May 28th, 2008 by eyal | Filed under Techie. |
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I’m still on XP on all my machines and it seems like there won’t be much point upgrading to Visa with Windows 7 coming on its heels much sooner than a typical major OS release.
Windows 7 Already a Threat to Vista – Columns by PC Magazine
If Windows Vista were a child, it would surely feel hurt, neglected, and stunned by the fact that its parents are favoring its still-unborn sibling, Windows 7.
The level of Windows 7 interest should be cause for significant concern in Redmond. Yet, I don’t see so much hand-wringing as I do schizophrenia. There’s the Vista group, which is gamely marching forward, trying to convince people that Vista is the operating system that they want and that they’ll truly love it if they only give it a chance. Then there’s the Window 7 group, which is populated, naturally, by some of the very same people. They’re telling you how much better Windows 7 will be.
The preview images look like a Vista with eyecandy add-ons, trying to minimize the gap with OS X I’m assuming, but will we need 8Gb RAM to run it?
Here’s a reminder of what Windows 1.0 looked like.
