Windows 7 Not Afraid of Netbooks or Macs

Microsoft isn't going to be effected by Netbook markets. If push comes to shove, Microsoft will offer a free version of Windows 7 for netbooks that will effectively kill competitors from Google and Intel. The only way anyone can compete is making their software free and if they become enough of a threat Microsoft will do the same and the only real advantage is gone.

And to the idiot that said "Snow Leopard can suck my dick." - Get a life.

You are an idiot...little man.

Snow Leopard was one of the easiest installs ever. I put it on three different Mac's and not one problem. From what I have read in the media Win7 will be a beast when you go to upgrade any hardware. MS is more concerned with piracy than with paying consumers. They would do well if the learned from the music industry.

If MS has no concerns, then why do they continue to inundate us with those lame "I am a PC" ads?

Same reason apple runs adds?....

lol I'm sure you didn't really mean to have snow leopard to suck your dick... presumably you still want to use it don't ya

I've been using win7 rc for about a month since my Ubuntu drive failed.
it was a week perhaps two before once again i was back to cursing Microsoft. the honeymoon has passed and i miss Linux.

win7 is nice but does not beat out ubuntu with compiz installed.

rant said; win7 will still do well because the humans of the world still see and think of a computer as windows or mac. people seem to only understand branded systems and become rather confused when things look a but different.

I am so tired of the blank stare when i say Linux and yet I do not see that changing anytime soon; even with google pushing a distro.

[citation]Snow Leopard can suck my dick.[/citation]

thumbs up because of that XD

Microsoft still enjoys an 88% market share on OSes. I view the current trend of rising OSX shares as positive on several accounts:
1- This forced Microsoft to focus on quality and Windows 7 is a direct result of this market pressure. Vista was a product of over engineering and complacency.
2- As Apple gains more market shares, the hackers are going to start noticing. Steve Jobs will have to rewrite history Big Brother Style and pretend the infamous "Macs don't get viruses" Hodgman/Long commercial never aired.
3- Microsoft is known for a complete lack of vision that is only matched by their ability to turn around and recover from their mistakes in a split second. This means they will come up with elegant solutions should their market shares get actually threatened.

Man thats wonderful about snow leapord. You installed an operating system on three macs. wow bet all three macs were similar hardware wise, because you know they are all pretty much the same hardware wise. Also I seem to think apple is just as concerned about piracy, you know with all thier closed systems. Ipod, Itunes, apple tv, Iphone, OSX, app store, Dont jailbreak, limited chosen hardware.

Do you mean it is easy to install Apple software on Apple hardware?
That's a shocker.

Now build a Mac from scratch and install any kind of upgrades (Graphics, RAID, you name it) on it.

oh wait. You can't.

MS is the one claiming the "comfort zone." If no worries, then why waste money on the ads? MS will keep the business sector for years...decades...to come. But, the home sector is another story as evidenced by the recent numbers posted by Apple.

Also, it is "ads." To "add" is to perform a arithmetic operation.

Microsoft has nothing to be afraid of.
MAC OS what a joke, you can only install it legally on apple hardware only(the price of the software is good $29 for a full version).

As opposed to the plethora of, "Hello, I'm a Mac" ads which hock the over-priced Apple offerings by touting the, apparently only ad-worthy virtue that, Mac is not a PC.

Spare us your self-righteous indignation. To borrow a line from Top Gune: [Apple] neither be doing it better nor cleaner than the other guy.

Vista SP2 isn't that much of an improvement and from a corporate point view isn't any stronger at all. Having said that I don't see any of those OS making huge moves in the corporate environment. There is no ROI in upgrading to Windows 7 so that isn't going to happen.

I was a supporter of Vista, Windows 7 is just a service pack to Vista and should be free of charge. Things like the useless search feature and crippled virtual PC make it hard to support and the home group is slow and useless as well. The only real improvement is the slide show wallpaper and gaming performance. Really not impressed and M$ gives me all my OS's for free...

What is your point? You babble. My guess is that you have never used Snow Leopard, just like most of those who attack Apple merely for being Apple. This is the "Town Hall" mentality. You are not criticizing based on the merits of the products, but are doing it for who/whom/what they represent.

Funny how many editors are comparing certain components of Win7 to Snow Leopard. Task bar is now very much like the Dock, etc.

You can buy a dongle and install Mac OS on a PC...no problem.

Sweet so your telling me that I can run all my games on Ubuntu? Oh wait its still just for mostly office type apps, (yes I know you can run some games on Linux. I am just saying not very many that I play.) I think linux is a very commendable os. that being said I tried linux. I am so sick of command line, finding semi usable program alternatives. I don't really want to think that hard all the time. I am sure it is great for some people, but when I build a new system, I want it to do the majority of the things really well, office and productivity, Gaming, Multimedia, etc. Linux might do that, but not without a tremendous headache.

I guest i was misinform the zune is also a closed system product.

thumbs up because of that XD[/citation]
Thumbs down because of that

I never said it wasn't. I never said Microsoft wasnt against piracy. I just stated that apple is too, and gave examples.

Some Microsoft fans sure know how to raise the level of civil discourse don't they? Well, maybe not so much.

This next release of Windows (v7, the Vista service pack) is still the same, tired old code that Redmondites continue to haul out after trying to copy each version of the latest Mac OS release. PCs were set back years with Windows XP security issues, Vista performance issues and the poor Internet Explorer browsing experience that eschews new Web standards for Microsoft's dying proprietary standards. It remains to be seen whether the upcoming version of Windows (v7) actually will prove to be useful and secure, but Mac users already know this: the basic Windows interface, navigation and computing experience remains a complex mess that cannot be fixed by trying to rewrite old code and copy the Mac OS X look-and-feel.

So, why trust your business or personal data to OS software that is demonstratively inferior? Macs are selling well for a reason -- a more modern OS custom designed for specific hardware makes for a superior computing experience. Unlike "amabhy" — we kindly invite or frustrated Windows friends to give the Mac a try. Many Mac users will be there with open arms to help you make the transition.

MS: We're not afraid of the competition.

That explains why Ballmer finds it necessary to constantly bad mouth and spread FUD about Linux, OpenSource, and Apple/Mac/iPod/iPhone. That's why they train BestBuy sales people on the benefits of Windows and use FUD to steer customers away from Linux.

That's why he finds it necessary to make fun of an MS employee who dared to bring an iPhone to work. Oh no, you can't bring a product from Apple into MS, even if it is the best selling smartphone on the market. No iPod for Ballmers' or Gates' children, they can use the Zune, and they'll like it.

Yes, it all makes perfect sense.

/sarcasm

Funny... I don't remember typing in key-codes when I installed Snow Leopard... or being reminding to activate Snow leopard within 30 days... or having to call a 1-800 number because my Windows won't activate...

what mac users fail to relise is that windows is amazing. mac osx snow leopard is set to work on maybe 20 sets of hardware windows works on millions of sets of hardware 99.9 percent of the time flawlessly for that windows deserves amazing thumbs up. like to see apple do that? they couldn't. and also the reason you dontneed to do a keycode type in is cause it checks to make sure your using a mac cause the average person can't build a hackintosh so they dontreally need to worry about piracy. Apple is the worse excuse for a company iv ever seen now adays. they dont give anything to charity, microsoft gives huge amounts to charity each year something mac should try... My friend got a imac (newer one) he HATES it he has had it for 3-4 months and it has crashed 10+ times and he has even reinstalled leopard and snow leopard 10 or more times he took it to the apple store they couldn't find anything wrong with it and still charged him 100 dollors to just look at it. he may sell it and get a pc. so eat that mac fans

No, one was a first gen iMac, an aluminum MacBook, and a mid-209 17" MacBook Pro. Very different hardware...as stated above not key-gens, 800 numbers, etc...as stated above. With MS you have to jump through far too many hoops and installation is a major concern. Can you jump from 32-bit to 64-bit on the fly with Win7? Don't think so...it is easy enough with Snow Leopard. Besides, the Unix core has it all over the vestiges of DOS.

Will it be possible to upgrade a 32-bit Win OS to 64-bit without reformatting? Nope. It is possible with SL.

Windows 7 Not Afraid of Netbooks or Macs is the title. It might be more appropriate if an article was written with the title: Windows Fan's Afraid of Macs

Why would they require you to enter keycodes or activate the product if you can only install it on their hardware???
That would be like having to call a keyboard manufacturer each time you upgrade the firmware.

Of course, Apple will also tell you that installing OSX on a non-apple machine is as wrong as killing kittens and that jailbreaking will cause an early end of days. I guess an outraged Steve Jobs is the down side of not having to rely on software activation.

If the only thing you see about Windows 7 is that it has pretty wallpaper and slide show then your boss should fire you for not doing your job evaluating the OS. Is it something completely new, no, but it is a hell of a lot better than Vista. Stability, speed, ease of use to name just a few. I have had 5 PC and Laptops using Windows 7 and not only is it more stable and faster than Vista, it also faster in many ways than XP. The only issues I have had with 7 have been based upon software that hasn't been updated to work completely with the 7 kernel.

Apple is fine for what it does. But it is incapable of being an enterprise solution. Why, because if they were to make OSX flexible enough to handle the abundance of enterprise level software (Oracle, SAP, Dynamics 10, Peoplesoft,... and lets not forget the enterprise management software from IBM, Cisco, HP and others.. if they were to make it that flexible and useful, then it would be as vunerable as Windows has been. Lets see a MAC run 50,000 Enterprise (no POP3) email clients. It will not because it cannot replace the Windows as the dominate OS for business desktops. Too many MAC people forget that the world is more than making pretty pictures.

Windows 7 is not the cure to all of Microsoft problems, but it is a step in the right direction. No I will not be moving my enterprise to it the first day, but every new PC that comes through my door after November 1st will be running it.

This is of course ignoring the fact that the market share went up substantially when users had the option of dual-booting it with windows. lol!

Windows sucks at enterprise too. It's constantly crashing, virus ridden, and very slow. Linux far outperforms Microsoft in that arena. I wouldn't discount Apple in the server arena either, the iTunes cloud is run by Mac OSX xservs, and I'm sure they get hit with more load than a 50k enterprise.

Why would you have to you can only install it on a mac. (closed hardware), I bet you do remember to deactivate computers in Itunes though dont you. And tell me what are the exact differences between an imac, macbook pro, and an aluminum macbook?. still intels chips all core 2's also. So no real change there. bet the chipset is basically the same. and what for video cards Nvidia based probably the 9400. If it is so easy then buy me a dongle and install it on a machine with ati graphics, tv tuner, nvidia northbridge, and creative soundcard. oh n an amd processor.

remind me why you'd want to do that?

They should have addressed Microsofts #1 competitor. User-friendly linux iterations.