The PC World Challenge: 72 Hours of Windows 7!

Hmm,

The way I read it is this

1. He likes the improvements - he praises them quite a lot.

2. He is not sure they are worth shelling out hundreds of dollars for.

He probably will get it - he's an enthusiast, like us. He probably overegged it to make a point.

The point is most people are not enthusisats - they won't want to shell again for an o/s - many of them will have only had Vista a short time - it will ship on new machines till 7 comes out.

Once 7 is released, it will replace replace Vista on new machines - by default it will sell a lot.

Vista sales will be dead in the water, as John says. Vista will continue to get security updates from M$ - but there won't be any real improvements/upgrades.

SIW2

I think I'm going to side with the people saying he's sort of a whiner. Not in a horrible way, but a whiner none the less. I had a hard time respecting the article after he mentioned having a difficult time finding a replacement for Daemon Tools. Although I was disappointed to find that DT wasn't functional in 7, it took me about 5 seconds to find a very functional (and free) replacement. But maybe I'm just being a judgmental POS. Like my friend above said, that just my two cents!

darkassain said:

damm most people dont even remember the Win Nt days.....

I bought NT4 and I demand that M$ should give me a free upgrade to windows 7 as NT4 was crap

momalle1 said:

All Microsoft needs now are some cute commercials and everyone will love them.

No, MS needs John Mayer. Only John Mayer can save MS' reputation.

dalhectar said:

No, MS needs John Mayer. Only John Mayer can save MS' reputation.

John Mayer?