The interesting thing is, [Windows 7] is basically the next version of Vista… One of the things that people say an awful lot about the Apple Mac is that the OS is fantastic, that it’s very graphical and easy to use. What we’ve tried to do with Windows 7 – whether it’s traditional format or in a touch format – is create a Mac look and feel in terms of graphics.
Aldous, perhaps realizing that he might have just been a little too honest for a Microsoft employee, then added:
We’ve significantly improved the graphical user interface, but it’s built on that very stable core Vista technology, which is far more stable than the current Mac platform, for instance.
MacDailyNews Take: Proof that Windows 7ista, with its upside-down, and backwards Mac ripoff UI is “far more stable than the current Mac platform?” Nope, none given by the Microsoft flack. There never is.
Full interview here.
MacDailyNews Take: I’m a Mac and Windows 7 was my idea. Some things never change. What’s “new” in Microsoft’s latest version of Windows is often quite old in Apple Mac.
[Attribution: Macworld UK. Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Fred Mertz” for the heads up.]
sad…really sad…on M$’s part. no innovation….only talk.
MS more stable than Mac? hardly.
I am amazed at the garbage MS can say without backlash.
I think most reporters either are tech-ignorant or are afraid that a penetrating interview might result in complaints to the reporter’s employer from M$, resulting in the reporter’s assignment to Ulan Bator for the rest of their career.
Only one statistic needs be mentioned here:
80% of the existing viruses, worms, trojans, spyware, etc., thrown at Win7 recently got through and did their dirty deeds. What is that, 80,000 pieces of destructive code? And billions and billions of dollars wasted to repair the damage done to PCs and their servers around the world?!
And how about the guy who’s just done 11 months of jail time for having child porn on a computer that another piece of Windows malware put there without his knowledge? THAT is something to brag about, Microsoft!
Once again–as of this moment in time only . . . how many malicious and successful virii does the Mac have to be on the lookout for?
NONE! NONE!! That would be N-O-N-E!!!
And Win7 is more stable? Give the entire thinking world a break, Mr. Aldous. You are a blowhard, a liar, and an unrepentant shill. Bend over some more and spread ’em; we like the look.
Only reason I like Microsoft is that I use PowerPoint word a lot. But I prefer mac is according to interface and functions
“We’ve significantly improved the graphical user interface, but it’s built on that very stable core Vista technology, which is far more stable than the current Mac platform, for instance.”
Well, counting all the Unix based computer crashes vs all the Vista/7 based computer crashes for all time and using a geologic time scale (because really computer advancements can be counted in epochs) I’d say the Windows guy has a point. Vista/7 has crashed far less in the past 150 million years than Unix.
What?
I would rather knock a feel off than feel a knock-off….
“I’m a Mac, and Windows 7 ripped off my ideas.”
(If Vista hadn’t been a far more blatant rip-off in its time, this might have made a decent commercial, but still …)
Actually, it isn’t close. I just installed Win 7 in Parallels 5 and, yes, it’s pretty, but it’s still clunky to use and, when you start trying to actually do anything, you quick discover that it’s still Win 95 in terms of functionality, except far more convoluted. If Adobe would only re-release Frame Maker for the Mac I could do away with all of this tripe!
I don’t remember the second Take or the headline having the “I’m a Mac…” line when I posted my comment.
Did MDN just rip *me* off?
[MW: somewhat.]
Rock solid Windows 7 on my Dell is humming along nicely, thank you. And everything is super-easy. You MAC sheep have no idea. The key is you have to know what you’re doing. Obviously MAC fangirls don’t know how to maintain computers, install anti-virus software and keep malware defenses up to date. You should also sign up for Microsoft’s Window Live OneCare subscription service. If you don’t know how to do that then maybe you shouldn’t be using computers.
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“… it’s built on that very stable core Vista technology, which is far more stable than the current Mac platform, for instance.”
There. He said it, although surrounded with lies.
It’s still vista.
@Grestash,
You prefer PowerPoint to Keynote? Really? Upon which planet do you reside?
Re Grestash –
using Powerpoint is akin to self inflicted torture. Keynote is far superior.
Time to get off the MS bandwagon. It’s on a very slippery path to nowhere.
6 months from now MS’ slipping capitalization will be a big news item.
More ‘stable’. As in horse manure.
@Towertone
…depends on the knockers
Seriously folks…is ANYONE surprised by this?
M$ saying Vista is more stable than a Mac says a lot about their mental stability. Not a good prognosis.
The old adage: “imitation is the most sincerest form of flattery”.
applies, and a other have pointed out – there is no way windows is more stable than OS X., or any other LINUX/UNIX OS
Ahhh! the dickwits who continually say the Mac OS is vulnerable to this and that are just trying to make a dollar out of scaring the new Mac masses into thinking they have to protect their new machines with the same shit they needed with their old PC. Wankers
ZT you are wonderful. More please.
Yes, if only they made a version of Word and Powerpoint for the Mac.
Huh?
Hmmm…. I wonder who This could be (probably the sociopathic PC nerd who gets his kicks bashing Macs in a Mac forum. Kinda like going all the way to Italy (or, fill in the blank) just for the purpose of making fun of Italians:
“A person with this disorder will also often exhibit impulsive behaviors and have a majority of the following symptoms:
• Frantic efforts to avoid real or imagined abandonment
• A pattern of unstable and intense interpersonal relationships characterized by alternating between extremes of idealization and devaluation
• Identity disturbance: markedly and persistently unstable self-image or sense of self
• Impulsivity in at least two areas that are potentially self-damaging (e.g., spending, sex, substance abuse, reckless driving, binge eating)
• Recurrent suicidal behavior, gestures, or threats, or self-mutilating behavior
• Affective instability due to a marked reactivity of mood (e.g., intense episodic dysphoria, irritability, or anxiety usually lasting a few hours and only rarely more than a few days)
• Chronic feelings of emptiness
• Inappropriate, intense anger or difficulty controlling anger (e.g., frequent displays of temper, constant anger, recurrent physical fights)
• Transient, stress-related paranoid ideation or severe dissociative symptoms”
I think we all know what’s involved in maintaining a PC- luckily, we choose not to!
Anti-social much?…..
“it’s built on that very stable core Vista technology, which is far more stable than the current Mac platform, for instance.”
Simon, much like the “core technology” behind any given version of Windows, the “core Vista technology” is about as stable as a house of cards in hailstorm. No honesty points for you there.
Big honestly points for acknowledging that W7 is basically Vista 2.0 and that it intentionally rips off the look and feel of OS X, though. The good news is the Borg hasn’t fully assimilated you. The bad news is I think your life is in danger from low flying chairs, now.
saw one of those I am a Windows 7 ads this past week. They put two invoices up side by side and acted like it was a big deal.
Oh good god, who cares. That was a really dump commercial.
“I’m a PC” : Trojan horse
“I’m a PC” : Natas Virus
“I’m a PC” : Conflickter C.
“I’m a PC” : Michael Angelo Virus
“I’m a PC” : Exploit:Win32/ShellCode.A
“I’m a PC”: …………………