Sunday, January 11, 2009

Do we need yet another Operating System?

I am still using Win XP SP 2 and I have no issues or desires to upgrade to Microsoft new Windows 7.

Vista was a failure.

Some guys recently installed Google's Operating System for mobiles, Android on Asus EEE PC.

Among older tech companies, only Apple manages to excite its users with its products with its cult-like influence but I think we will reach a saturation point for coolness soon.

After all, even Johnny Depp and his cultivated coolness could not save the third (some say the second too) installment of the "Pirates of the Carribean).

How will Apple look without Steve Jobs?

Tech mags and papers will cover the introduction of Windows 7 because they got to fill the space and make some ad money.

Tech users will download the new O.S. for boasting rights and adding ammo to the water cooler/twitter talk,
" did you download? Yes, my download speed was..."

Meanwhile, the normal P.C. user is happy with what he has. For your normal web usage, you do not need a new operating system.

Didn't I hear someone say the other day that the days of Desktop O.S. is over?
The web is the new Operating System.

If someone needs a new operating system, it is the old technology companies.

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Sunday, August 19, 2007

Outgoing PC Magazine Editor gives thumbs down to Vista

Isn’t it odd that the journalists and politicians speak the truth or whatever is bogging them down, only after they are done with their jobs? Outgoing PC Magazine Editor-in-Chief Jim Louderback, has this to say about Vista in his last editorial:

"I've been a big proponent of the new OS over the past few months, even going so far as loading it onto most of my computers and spending hours tweaking and optimizing it. So why, nine months after launch, am I so frustrated? The litany of what doesn't work and what still frustrates me stretches on endlessly. The upshot is that even after nine months, Vista just ain't cutting it. I definitely gave Microsoft too much of a free pass on this operating system: I expected it to get the kinks worked out more quickly. Boy, was I fooled! If Microsoft can't get Vista working, I might just do the unthinkable: I might move to Linux."


Mr. Louderback was unhappy with Vista’s Driver handling, shared drive that system can’t find, the redesigned Network Settings, and how hard it is for the system to connect to wireless connections after waking from sleep.

Seamless experience, which was the promise given by Vista, or was it?

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