“The seven deadly sins — for centuries, they’ve shaped the imaginations of poets, priests, and politicians, while giving the great unwashed a frame of reference: Do these things and you’ll burn for sure!” Randall C. Kennedy writes for InfoWorld. “When it comes to software, few products have inspired as much debauchery as Windows.”
Kennedy writes, “So with Windows 7 just around the corner, it makes sense to examine the product through the prism of these 7 deadly sins.”
The 7 deadly sins of Windows 7
• Lust: Beware Windows 7’s faux-Mac experience, which may drive users to the real thing
• Gluttony: Windows 7’s piggy requirements require a lot of hardware “food”
• Greed: Windows 7 will cost you, over and over again; Microsoft is a greedy company
• Anger: Windows 7 penalizes those who didn’t pay for the mess that was Vista
• Envy: Windows 7’s old and new flaws make users covet Mac OS X or even Linux
• Pride: Windows 7’s fan boys can help drive adoption — or drive everyone away
• Sloth: Windows 7’s slob nature means a lot of unpleasant time spent as an IT janitor
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Sounds like a royal pain in the ass, as usual. Get a Mac.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “The_Wzrd” for the heads up.]
@ Buster,
I agree. Good move.
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Rename it to Windows 7 Deadly Sins.
The Sins of Windows:
1 Lust – allows lots of porn malwares
2 Gluttony – consumes too much hardware resources
3 Greed – is full of DRM to appease greedy RIAA and MPAA
4 Sloth – is just barely good enough for undemanding users
5 Wrath – punishes users by forcing them to use Windows
6 Envy – wants what Mac OS X has
7 Pride – thinks itself as pretty and “innovative”
I used to recommend Mac’s to friends since the G4 right through to their current intel days, the report card isn’t great, of the five friends who’s taken my suggestion, all hate the decision, the reasons?
1. “Logic board failure”, all four of the G5’s failed “just” outside the warranty period, customer support from the “apple geniuses” was crap, fortunately two of these were due to the recall and after much angry letter writing we are able to get these sorted under the recall.
2. Constant $$$ upgrade for relatively minor improvements, unable to run the latest version of Safari on an older OS, effectively making Safari paid for software (IE ships for free and I can run all versions on XP, which is upgraded/enhanced via Service Packs that ship for free)
3. Apple’s “Upgrade or Die” mentality, I have a power mac which has a faulty logic board and a G4 with a fault logic board on my front lawn being collected in the spring clean garbage collection as they are unrepairable. I have in the shed my old 486 which I could power on tomorrow and PII which is currently acting as my firewall box. The reason Apple went to Intel is due to the fact that nothing else works quite as reliably as a PC.
No doubt you’ll all disagree with the above, feel free to flame, but ask yourselves, how many times have you upgraded for enhancement, and how many times due to your iPOD, MAC, iPhone being faulty?