http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/
Rushing it? Umm, no. Windows 7 has been rock-solid even since the first Beta, and has only gotten better.]]>May 11th 2009 3:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 3:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 3:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/
http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/new-windows-7-hack-purports-to-be-unfixable/]]>May 11th 2009 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/"solid beta/RC project from Microsoft"
Agreed!

For those that have been endlessly mauling Vista since its release, what happened is not that unusual for consumer targeted Microsoft OS:
- Windows 3.1 - good
- Windows 95 - bad
- Windows 98 - good
- Windows me - bad
- Windows xp - good
- Windows Vista - bad
- Windows 7 - good (we think ;^)
- Windows (next?) - probably bad
- Windows (after that) - probably good

See a pattern? Well, “the more things change; the more things stay the same”.]]>May 11th 2009 3:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/ :)]]>May 11th 2009 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/
hum...make sense.]]>May 11th 2009 3:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 3:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/
I think it is a mistake to attribute any kind of regularity to Microsoft's quality control. Sometimes they manage to put out solid product, credit where due. But if they have any pattern, it's bad release version, fixed at the second or third patch.

And products apart from their operating systems follow different trends. For instance, Word has been getting steadily less usable since Word 6. ]]>May 11th 2009 4:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/He missed out 2000 because it didn't fit his pattern.]]>May 11th 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/
guess you didnt see the article entitled "New Windows 7 hack purports to be "unfixable"
Yeah .. rock solidly broken !]]>May 11th 2009 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/The key words in the rant were "consumer targeted OS" ;^/...]]>May 11th 2009 4:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/
It seems they put out a usable product, experiment (and ham-handedly fail) with the next version, and learn from their mistakes on the one after it. It's a good pattern for a company to evolve on, albeit frustrating for the users.
]]>May 11th 2009 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/
From the post you mentioned (Windows 7 hack "unfixable"), I will simply quote bob, a commenter from that post, who put it best (and many others who pointed out the same in the comments):

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bob @ Apr 23rd 2009 7:06PM

Dumbest hack ever if it can't be deployed remotely. That's like saying an ERD Commander or BartPE are deadly exploits.
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*ANY* machine that can be *physically* accessed can get owned. UNIX, Linux, Windows, OS X, whatever...


Go back, read the comments, learn something, and stop wasting everyone's time...



]]>May 11th 2009 6:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 6:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/"They could release Windows 7 today and be in at least as good a situation as they were with Vista. "
Even if it was just Hitler with flashing eyes it would be better than Vista.]]>May 11th 2009 7:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/
Alas, go Windows 7. I like it. You have to be purposely set or on the extremely dim side to crash it or get into ANY kind of problems and in general, I can't really find anything to complain about regarding the OS (with Vista, you could at least say that it took up quite a bit of hard drive space and RAM). The sooner it's released, the better the 'Windows' community will be as a whole.]]>May 11th 2009 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/
Windows 98 - Crap
Windows 98 SE - Very slight improvement
Windows 2000 - Pretty good product
Windows XP - buggy and crap
Windows XP SP1 - Slightly less buggy
Windows XP SP2 - Stable and almost completely bug free (only took 5 years)

I personally quite like Vista but 7 is excellent, I've got my HTPC and work PC both running on it.]]>May 11th 2009 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 3:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 3:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 2:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 3:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/
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Not that we all don't have it free for a year.]]>May 11th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/
(the date on a few blogs is after July 1st the upgrade is free).]]>May 11th 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/
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Took me around an 2 hours to get everything back to normal, and I have a lot of software that I use. I keep all my programs in ISO on an external drive though. Actually upgraded two computers to Windows 7.]]>May 11th 2009 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/
That's still more time than I have ever spent fixing any problems I have had with Vista :)]]>May 11th 2009 3:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/
My laptop use to be dual booted, but trust me there is little reason to go back once one has upgraded to the RC (unless they don't plan to buy Windows 7).]]>May 11th 2009 3:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/
but holiday season is the projected release timeframe ]]>May 11th 2009 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 6:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 8:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/http://www.engadget.com/2009/05/11/microsoft-windows-7-on-track-for-the-holiday-season/May 11th 2009 2:54PM