Archive for category Windows 7
The Vista Myth – UKMac Thoughts On The Subject
Daniel Dilger of RoughlyDrafted posts another cracking article, this time on The Vista Myth. As usual it is hard to fault Daniel’s logic and I agree with a lot of what he has to say, however I do believe that despite the disaster that was Vista it will take many years for Microsoft’s stranglehold on the corporate market place to be significantly eroded.
Sure the home market is changing rapidly and it is certainly true that the portable and mobile market is a big part of this. How many people now sit down to do their ‘home computing’ at a desk in front of a traditional PC compared to those surfing from their netbooks on the sofa in the living room, or posting to their twitter account or blog from their iPhone ? However many sectors of industry ( mine being health ) are implicitly linked to Microsoft technologies and here change is MUCH slower, typically refresh cycles for major systems are in the region of 5-10 years.
RoughlyDrafted.com Views on Windows 7
Daniel Dilger has posted a thoughtful and well reasoned summary of why he thinks Microsoft have got it all wrong with Windows 7 ( Why Windows 7 is The Next Zune ). Whether you are pro or anti-Microsoft I think you will find his argument pretty compelling. With the rise of OS X and Linux ( netbooks ) Microsoft are really beginning to see some solid competition and it is fairly clear that Windows 7 is not a get out of jail free card for Redmond.
Personally when I read about Windows 7’s new “XP mode” I thought maybe Microsoft had grasped the problem and were putting a sensible solution in place to enable them to free themselves from the shackles of backward compatibility without losing too many customers along the way ( clearly nothing innovative here as this is what Apple did by rolling OS 9 into OS X when it was released in 2000 ), however when I read the full gen on this and realised that this “slick” integration actually requires you to install Virtual PC and then XP and then Antivirus and firewall software for XP etc I was forced to concede that yet again Microsoft have completely missed the point !
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