"The Mojave Experiment" A.K.A. "Windows 7"

[BD2003]

Originally posted by: VinDSL

Originally posted by: BD2003
With all due respect...this is the dumbest thing I've read in years.

Pssst...a little hint. Look at the date of the article.

Maybe you didn't read the article closely enough. For instance:

The expected Windows 7 launch date is January, 2010. I've been covering Windows since 1990. In all those years, Microsoft always runs way behind schedule for releases of new operating systems, often years behind. But Microsoft is apparently rushing the OS. Microsoft announced today that it will distribute a "pre-beta build" of Windows 7 at its Professional Developers Conference October 27. Rumors suggest that the company could release the shipping version of Windows 7 in 2009. Wow! How on Earth will they do that?

The fact of the matter is, the author is right!

MS is not giving up on Vista. They just have to trick some ppl into using it - and they've succeeded!

Compare the comments made in the "Mojave Experiment" with the comments made in this forum. They're almost identical word-for-word...

With all due respect, everyone has been duped! The emperor has no clothes...

I read the article entirely. He's predicting what Win7 will be like before Win7 was revealed. That completely invalidates it, now that more is actually known.

The rest is just a stupid semantic argument. Every windows version has been built on top of the last. Theres more of a jump from Vista to 7 than there was from 2000 to XP.

I agree that the concept behind mojave is at work here, just in reverse - people though vista was bad, perceived it as bad, and were surprised to find out it was actually good when they actually tried it. People think Win7 is the second coming, and when they use it, it's actually good, and thus it is perceived to be good.

So MS isnt giving up on Windows, or all the good work they put into Windows during and since Vista. Why would they?

BTW, Vista came out in 2006. Win7 will almost definitely be out this year, probably by back to school season. Its not being rushed by any stretch of the imagination.

 

[soonerproud]

Originally posted by: BD2003
BTW, Vista came out in 2006. Win7 will almost definitely be out this year, probably by back to school season. Its not being rushed by any stretch of the imagination.

How dare you interject a little logic in a Internet forum argument!

People who like to say Win 7 is being rushed tend to only look at the length of time between XP and Vista and fail to look at Microsoft's past development cycles for Windows. THREE YEARS IS THE NORMAL DEVELOPMENT CYCLE FOR WINDOWS. Actually it is a little shorter if you take 98 to 98 SE, 98 SE to Win ME and 2000 to XP into account. Using Microsoft's past history as a guide, it is clear Win 7 IS NOT BEING RUSHED OUT OF THE DOOR.

 

[KeypoX]

its in an advertising campaign! It must be true!!!