Tomorrow in New York, Windows 7 – Microsoft’s latest attempt to copy OS X – will be released. They could have released it in Seattle, but Seattle largely runs on OS X, Linux distros, and latte.
Windows 7 will be the best Windows ever. Isn’t that almost mandatory? Why would you release a new version if one of the older ones is better. So, of course Windows 7 is going to be the best Windows ever. This is analogous to being the best weasel in the chicken coop.
I know it’s going to be great because I read about it in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. The P-I is probably the only news organ on the planet that never published the term “Vista sucks” in the edited text. It was in the comments to some of their blogs, to be sure, but the house typists weren’t allowed to publish it ever.
Vista still sucks.
Interestingly, on every blog I’ve read where Windows 7 is a topic, there are a few commentards who claim to have been using the Pubic Beta without a problem from day one. We shall see.
The keening and wailing and gnashing of teeth should begin before it gets very late tomorrow.
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Windows 7 will come in four versions.
Crippled: For trailer park- and basement-dwellers, and people too stupid to run Linux on their second-hand Acers.
Lame: For people who think $600 is too much to pay for a computer.
Basically Useable after SP2: For businesses that do most of the bookkeeping by hand, anyway.
Supreme Ultimate Perfect: Fully enabled, in a Microsoft sort of way.
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I’m going to have a Windows 7 Launch Party at my house. We’re going to drink beer and celebrate the launch of a major piece of Microsoft history in…
wait for it…
…The Big Apple.
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Oh, and did you notice that Apple beat everybody to “multitouch on the desktop?”
The Magic Mouse is the shizzle. I’m gettin’ me one. Soon.
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Apple closed at an all-time high today.
$204.92
I’m still holding.
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Here’s a nice read for a guy who’s held AAPL shares since 1999.
And finally, this. It’s a PC guy who intelligently talks about Mac and Apple. It’s kinda cool to read.
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I started buying Apple back in the mid 90’s in my 401k. If it went down (read Spindler, Amelio) I would buy more. It’s called dollar cost averaging. The stock has split twice since I’ve owned it, bringing my average cost per share to about $6. Thanks Apple. Some day I’ll be able to retire.
BTW – I bought my first Mac in 1984 and have had just about every model made since. I invest in companies that I believe in. Never had to use winblows.
I should be so lucky. I’ve owned numerous Mac models myself, dating back to the 1Mb SE (yes, I snipped the resistor), but my employers have always used Windows.
I’ve used just about every version of both OSes. Running the most current version of both systems on up-to-date computers, the Mac OS is always better in every measurable parameter important to me.: crash frequency, ease of ownership, longevity of technology.
Always.