Some people are petrified of change. It scares them. Jason Perlow, of ZDNet fame, is one of them. The self-proclaimed Tech Broiler has been playing with Windows 7 Beta 1 for a few days and doesn’t like what he sees and in true Internet fashion, proclaims it in a blogging rant. After reading through his whining post, I’ve came to the conclusion that you’ll hate Windows 7 only if you cannot deal with simple UI changes.
You see, Windows 7 builds upon the Vista user interface which Mr. Perlow seems never to have used. Yes, the Start Menu is the double column type and at least in the Beta version of Win7, cannot be changed to the 1995-era style. Also, a fresh install of Win7 produces a clean and icon free desktop. That’s a bad thing, Perlow? Why? It’s quicker and faster to click on the Start Menu and use the icons there rather than minimizing all the screens to reach My Documents.
His chief complaint is that the Run link has been removed from the Start Menu and replaced with the vastly superior Search Bar. Now you do not need to type in the target items complete file name. Sure, it’s different, but my god buddy, get off your high horse and give change a chance. (sounds like a November-ish mantra)
Yes, Windows 7 is different than Windows XP and some diehard users will bitch until SP2. That’s just the way the computer world works. I, for one, understand that if you don’t like it, don’t run it. Uninstall the OS, curse Microsoft, and regress to Windows XP - or OS X.
If he can’t handle change why would he switch to OS X? That sounds like a lot of change.
yes, i agree with you, i think the other guy made a big mistake to write, that if you love xp you will hate windows 7. Windows 7 will be a great OS, that’s for sure, i hate vista from the beggining, not becouse i was not able to use it,but becouse the system was slow and stupid.
The guy is an idiot. Windows 7 takes the best things from Vista and strips out the annoyance. That alone makes it a superior OS. If he can’t handle change I’m sure someone has a port of xtree that runs under Windows XP that will run under Windows 7.
Everyone should be allowed to have his own opinion. I did not know wether this fuss was all about marketing tricks until I installed the beta on a system where I have spent much time using XP, too much time using Vista and now Windows 7. I was impressed. Read here: http://max.zamorsky.name/2009/01/13/windows7-auf-einem-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pcwindows7-on-a-motion-computing-le1600-tablet-pc/
Rebuttal and mocking by Ed Bott to Perlow Stubborness. also at ZDNET:
http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=630
I’ve came to the conclusion that you’ll hate Windows 7 only if you cannot deal with simple UI changes.
- sounds like every windows XP user who hasn’t had the sensiblity of switching yet. i mean, who doesn’t love spyware trashing their system.
“Windows 7 … now only 7 years behind OS X.”
Ballmer - “We’re finally starting to ketchup.”
Right…because the XP system I’m on now is so corrupted by spyware I can’t even access the internet. Oh wait, yes I can, because XP works just fine.
And if by “sensibility” you mean “paying a 60% markup on comparable hardware with a shiny new OS thrown in so I can sound like a pompous jackass on the internet and annoy everyone who isn’t an Apple fanatatic by contantly trashing what they use even though the fact that 90% of people using the internet are using Windows clearly means it works just fine”, well then, I guess I’m not sensible.
“Windows 7…still kicking the crap out of Apple’s marketshare”
Ballmer - “Well, we really laid an egg with Vista, although the 32-bit version runs just fine now. I’m glad we still own 90% of the marketshare. I’m going to go throw another chair at Steve Jobs car for parking in a handicapped spot every day.”
Jobs - “WHO KEEPS DOING THIS???!”
Haha… thebonafortuna’s all mad. You’re a PC. Take that stylus out ur bung hole… ya fuckin nerd.
You can set the “win 9x” Classic theme by selecting it in the Ease of Access Themes category.
I have personally used it my self :)
Why is he a chump? Cause he has an opinion? Last time I checked… Matthew… that’s all you’ve ever had. The next time you COME to a conclusion, make sure you don’t trash a fellow opinion-ater doing it. It makes you look petty, and no one really takes advice from the petty… Matthew. Ya chump!
He’s a chump simply because of the content of his explanation. I’m all for everyone expressing their own opinion, but to be a blogger on a tech-heavy site carries with it responsibility. Would it have hurt him to do some benchmarks? Apparently, the only thing he’s concerned about is accessing ‘My Documents’ or the ‘run’ dialogue in his preferred way. That’s understandable, but I would’ve even accepted a benchmark for how long it takes to get to ‘My Documents’…so - ‘Mojave My Ass’? It doesn’t get anymore chumptastic than that.
“…the fact that 90% of people using the internet are using Windows clearly means it works just fine”
OMG!
It does not work just fine. Just because it can be made to work doesn’t mean it works fine. The fact that there are millions of knowledgebase articles about millions of problems with it means it does not work fine. Not to mention my own experience of many lost hours, days, weeks spent with windows problems, especially lots of hangs during installs where you can’t even get it to install.