Comments on: Windows 7 gets down to business

Microsoft talks about what it's doing to try to make enterprises more jazzed about the new Windows than they were with Vista.

[kick77]

I am a mac user too, and have been one for 7 years, but don't through away your windows yet. I guess you said it right, Windows needs premium hardware to run right. Vista is not a well designed UI, but it is very secure, even more so than OSX, proven by the hack contest. OS X was the first to be hacked. Microsoft will make a huge come back with Windows 7. I can see it with new features that snow leopard will lack, especially with using services from the cloud. Snow leopard was suppose to demo in January but no talk of it. Remember Apple has grown in the last year or so, but have you really seen what the highest percentage of people are really buying macs. Well its seniors my friend (no offense).Just talk to people at Apple tech support and they will tell you who is calling in. Think of it this way, if Apple had to worry about installing drivers for hp, dell, acer, and rest of them it would be a disaster. As a real think different fanboy you need to question and criticize Apple too. Take itunes and ipod, you have to authoize and d authorize your music, just to get your friends ipod to work on your mac. My Mac gets hacked on a daily basics, that's why I use little snitch app to see whats coming in and going out. Remember just because a pretty woman tells you she healthy that may not be true. That is why we always protect ourselves. Microsoft isn't worried about Apple, they are worried about Linux. Microsoft makes billions of dollars selling software to Apple customers like Windows and Office. Why would you stop Apple when they are top customers? C'mon we all know iworks stinks. Overseas Linux is spreading like a plague, and they are loosing money, but our media chooses to report nonsense.
Stay open my friend,
Fanboy 77

[drbyte]

Amazing how MS can screw up big time (Vista / ME) and all is forgiven with the next real proper release. VIsta was geared toward stimulating new hardware purchases. Should have made it an XP service pack after they got to the point they did with VIsta sp1. I used Vista on my notebook and was not impressed, went back to xp pro and it runs 3 times faster. I hope Windows 7 is all that, it seems people are very forgiving. It's really being praised high. Considering what Linux is doing for free and how much they want for the MS OS, Windows 7 should be the first hacker proof OS released. I hope so. If they can do that they got my money.

[monkeyfun14]

@drbyte


Yes lets just hate a company forever and always go around pissed off cause someone made a error.

[pinhead6793]

Seriously, It doesn't matter, i mean really, if you update vista with all the correct updates, and get a decent antivirus, then you shouldn't have any driver issues, or slowness of cpu or anything, Yes, apple may be a big leader in computing these days, and hell i even use apple software on my windows computer, i just can't afford an apple. I've had thoughts of switching to apple, but i use a lot of programs that aren't compatible with mac, therefore i would need bootcamp, but if i'm going to apple, Macbook Pro, 2009 :) is what i'm going to buy. Seriously this whole Windows vs. OS X thing, needs to stop it's getting to a point where i don't even enjoy reading reviews about the variety of products that consumers buy these days. :\ Anyways, i'm happy with vista, i like it very much, i make sure i do all my updates, and keep my antivirus up to date. and it's really NOT that hard to avoid viruses. so don't complain about windows being an antivirus prone computer, yes, it can be, but, a lot of that has to do with the user, downloading torrent files and music that contain the malware, thus installs on their computer because they don't pay for their antivirus, and thus crashes, and puts a bad view on windows. Seriously guys, stop with the competition, let people buy what they want, but they need to get educated before surfing the web, that's the whole key to it.

But after college, i'm definately getting an apple.

[Tyler_16]

I for one... actually like vista... The only real big problem I have with it is the amount of RAM it takes up just using the operating system... I have a nice computer with a little over 4 gigs of ram but half of it is always being taken up... you see... I do lots of video editing in Premiere and After Effects and I want all the ram I can get for those programs.. so if windows 7 can in fact, reduice the amount of RAM it uses. I'm going to be ECSTATIC about the update.