[Leaplist] Windows7 sins.

[Patrick]

Bryan J Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-10-10 at 11:34 -0400, Ray Brunkow wrote:
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>> MS after taking much flack about this in netbooks and lower end vs of
>> Windows 7 has removed all limitations on the total number of
>> applications that can be run at once on all flavors of Win7.
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> This is a myth.
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> The system requirements for Windows 7 has _not_ changed from Vista.
> They are both NT 6-based.  Both required around 20GiB for the core
> system (30-40GiB is typical).  Both have a _minimum_ RAM requirement of
> 1GiB.
>
> The only things that have changed are ...
>
> 1.  Microsoft's netbook "licensing" for Windows 7 has allowed the memory
> size to increase beyond the 1GiB maximum, hence why Windows XP was
> chosen prior.  Microsoft is now charging more for its netbook licensing,
> but it's still less than the full price.
>
> 2.  Microsoft is giving system integrators access to its packaging
> solution so they can install just the "core" system and added
> components, so NT 6 (via Windows 7) it fits in an 8GiB SSD (less than
> 20GiB uncompressed).
>
> Please _proliferate_ this information.
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Corporate policy usually makes the vendor charge MORE when sales are in 
the trash.  If that occurs, with the horrible sub-standard million 
Microsoft virus prone products, that are resource hogs, running s l o w 
l y, it is a "GOOD THING" for stable, secure, fast, parallel processing 
GNU/Linux, where "FREE", "OPEN", and "peer reviewed" are the norm. 

The huge failures of Microsoft for all my users who have converted to 
Linux were:
the problems with BSODs; updates that destroy; the million Microsoft 
Virus/bots/exploits; the difficulty of average folks to comprehend the 
heavy load of upkeep and maintenance required to keep Microsoft products 
working; and, the frustration of Microsoft DRM.

But, these are home users, and church groups, who have little time 
available to become IT technicians.  All are now on Linux Mint, with 
it's fantastic user support through forums, IRC (Internet Relay Chat: 
XChat is in the main menu). 

Upon boot, Linux Mint plays DVDs, MP3s.  Check it out at 
http://linuxmint.com


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