My old hope is that this article is biased by the fact that it’s written by an Apple aficionado who doesn’t really know how to work a PC over. The reason I don’t like Macs is the lack of control. The reason Mac people don’t like PCs is the limitless freedoms that come with it. Self determination is a bitch, as I’m fond of saying. Macs provide a better end-to-end holistic experience, shit just mostly works, until it doesn’t, and then you buy a new Mac to fix your problem.
I, on the other hand, am not satisfied unless I’ve taken my whole computer completely apart and put it back together at least once a month, as well as reconfigured half my software settings in the same interval.
I like how the vector-based desktop image resembles lights of sunlight shining down from the heavens on your shiny new OS. Although in this case I can tell you that’s a complete lie, and it’s actually light shining UP from the cracks in the ground revealing the hell beneath. Of course Windows 7 is going to be hell the first year or two. Why wouldn’t it?
Reminiscent of iLife, Microsoft has also taken Photo Gallery and Movie Maker out of the Windows package and will now offer the apps as a separate downloadable package, albeit free, called Windows Live Essentials. The package also includes the formerly bundled Windows Mail, Live Messenger, and Writer. This may help shrink Windows 7′s disk footprint profile in comparison to Vista for review purposes, but it’s not clear why this is listed among Windows 7′s core new features in the company’s marketing.
Reviewer obviously not a PC fan. Why do I say this? ANYONE who’s used Windows knows that the first thing you do is turn off all that stupid shit Microsoft bundles with Windows, so you can have your choice of applications to use. Maybe we’re talking about computers from a non-power user point of view, the average Joe One-Core’s blind acceptance of whatever comes on his computer being his only options for use. I for one simple HATE the fact that I can’t get Messenger, Media Player, Writer, Mail, Movie Maker, Cock Sucker, etc etc off my computer They stare at me in the Program Files list, hulking their with their potential vulnerabilities waiting to be ass-raped by some jack-hole on the internet that’s figured out a way to make Windows turn on something I don’t even want on my computer in the first place. (Don’t worry Mac fans, yours is coming as your popularity grows)
…but the company remains targeted on “killing” Google, an intent Ballmer famously announced back in 2005.
Sorry, there’s not enough drugs currently made in the world to get us high enough for that to happen any time soon.
A more significant improvement in Windows 7 is the new “Devices and Printers” control panel (below), which lists all of the installed devices graphically, from printers to scanners and cameras to MP3 players to displays to mice and keyboards, as well as an interface window for handling driver setup called Device Stage.
Well, that sounds irritating. A list of devices by name is fine, I know what my fucking iPod looks like. The only time the list-by-name function isn’t helpful is when Windows doesn’t know what a device is, and a larger ? icon isn’t gonna fuckin help that.
Products that support Device Stage install options that let you work with that device (below), and also pop up as icons in the Taskbar, similar to how Print Center handles printers in Mac OS X. Microsoft has more to do in this area than Apple because Windows is expected to work with a wider variety of often oddball hardware. Still, it remains to be seen how many devices will arrive with special support for the new feature, and how many manufactures will write support for their existing products. At CES, Ballmer demonstrated Nikon’s D90 camera with Windows 7, as it has special support for Device Stage.
Again, features only an amateur would love. I have *never* plugged my DSLR into my computer. I know how to copy files off a card reader, it’s faster, and I can *move* the files instead of having to copy from the camera and then go back and delete them (stupidly inconvenient).
In contrast, Apple itself builds all of the video hardware that can be used with Mac OS X, and most other peripherals use autoconfiguring USB or Firewire.
THINK LIMITED.
Apple also delegates some device configuration for cameras, iPods, and the iPhone to applications such as iTunes and iPhoto, leaving all the technical details on attached devices compiled within the more utilitarian System Profiler, accessible from the “About this Mac” menu. Rather than navigating a special screen to take pictures off your camera, you use your regular photo application or access them directly in the Finder like any other storage device.
I don’t know what sort of alternate reality this guy is living in, but that’s how it currently works with Windows and has since, um, the 90s?
Apple’s tight integration between its operating system and its hardware means there’s often less to configure. It also makes it possible for Apple to quickly roll out new features that have both hardware and software components. With Vista, Microsoft attempted to release a specification for adding a secondary LED panel to the back of laptops to enable users to access some information while the system was asleep, to mitigate the long resume from sleep times associated with Vista. However, OEMs didn’t rush to support the new idea, dubbed SideShow, and a lack of interest among consumers ended up scuttling the concept.
Right, because Apple’s never rolled out a useless feature they’ve regretted. That MS idea is right chumpy, even if OEMs supported it no one would use it because it’s dumb.
Microsoft jumped on the multitouch bandwagon as the iPhone launched in 2007, and made some bold predictions about how it would deliver multitouch user interfaces on mobile phones and consumer PCs by 2010. After euphoria about the Surface kiosk table demo wore off, it became obvious that nobody would really want to trade their mouse or trackpad for the opportunity to keep an outstretched, fatigued, and oily hand on their screen.
Author obviously has not talked to anyone using Wacom Cintiq tables as their primary interface. Multitouch is the future of interfaces, why else would the iPhone become the hottest smartphone in the world? It may be seen as gimmicky now but I bet as soon as people realize that mouse RSI is gone because of the un-cramped nature of working with your whole arm, multitouch will be the ONLY interface.
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