Say what you want, it is a more secure operating system
by schwim on Oct.28, 2009, under Software
The house parties have fizzled out and the paid advertisements in the form of reviews has come and gone. That’s right, Windows 7 has been released. So what does everyone think? Well, if you’re looking for a calm and unbiased response, don’t ask these guys.
A growing number of people are getting locked into an endless reboot loop during upgrade, destroying their Vista installs and leaving them with no OS.
Woops.
Microsoft must be working day and night to try to resolve this issue, right? From TFA:
According to Microsoft’s head of support, however, the endless reboot problem isn’t on the company’s top list of concerns. “It’s very early in the process,” said Ben Bennett, the director of Microsoft’s Windows consumer global support group, in an interview Monday afternoon. “In terms of the top issues of customers who choose to upgrade, the XP-to-Windows 7 [upgrade] is up there on the list for lots of reasons. The netbook upgrade scenario — how do I upgrade my netbook to Windows 7 — is also a big one. And another is, ‘Where are my applications?’ after people have upgraded. They wonder what happened to e-mail and photo editing, for example. Those are the top issues so far.”
So, they’re more concerned with those upgrading from XP to 7. Well, that makes sense. I’m sure that was their plan all along.
At least I got to keep the paper hats and confetti.
November 1st, 2009 on 6:25 pm
Even in the darkest days of Fedora (the DBUS bug that came right after F9 was released), a major problem like that wouldl have been (and was) fixed quickly. And with the DBUS bug, the head of the project apologised to affected users for the inconvenience … even though the impact wasn’t as bad as losing the entire install. I guess that shows the difference in attitude toward users.
Over here in Oz, there are some TV ads pushing security in WIn7. They start by pointing out problems with computer security and the things that should be better – basically providing a great argument to use Linux! Then, of course, they say that Win7 fixes all that up. I’m just waiting for the first major worm that targets Win7 to hit the headlines ….
November 3rd, 2009 on 11:11 am
They’ve been doing it here for a while, Bert. In the linked article, Microsoft lets you know that they are known for free software downloads and regular updates, unlike linux.
If you’ve not gotten to read it yet, peruse the thread. It goes a long way in explaining how stupid they assume a BestBuy customer(and employee) is.
November 4th, 2009 on 5:45 am
I knew MS were duplicitous, but those BestBuy presentos are something else. Aren’t there laws against being that misleading? If not, there ought to be.