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1. Comment - PDC 2008: Look out for the 'delighters' in Windows 7

   (Oct 30, 2008 - 8:29 PM)

   Thank you for the post, and a well structured post it was too. No sarcasm intended. It was well written, and to the point.
   As you say, Microsoft is learning, but needs to be reminded at every opportunity what is wanted and needed by end users. I work with these people every day and have yet to meet anybody who has said: "Wow, Vista really runs slow, and doesn't recognize my older software, and doesn't operate my old printer, but I want to keep it 'cause it's so pretty!"
   I therefore have to conclude that it is important to keep reminding Microsoft that they need to put functionality first, and pretty second.
   Thanks again for a good post.
   If you included some links to articles you may have found interesting or educational about Windows 7, people could read them for themselves. Good stuff!

2. Comment - PDC 2008: Look out for the 'delighters' in Windows 7

   (Oct 30, 2008 - 2:07 PM)

   Alright Icey. I wasn't going to do this, but I feel it behooves someone to explain these comments to you. It is not about reading one little bit of an article and judging an entire operating system on it my friend, it is about Microsoft's failed policy (see Vista) of more and more shiny sparklies instead of functionality and reliability that has people posting here. "Delighters" are just one more pedantic example of pulling the pixelated wool over the users eyes. Vista was 6 billion dollars worth of proof that form should follow function, not "let's make it pretty, and patch it later."
   Don't you remeber XP before service pack 1? By default, Windows Messenger was started up and hackers and phishers worldwide rejoyced in being able to tell us that we needed larger--- well, ahem, you get the point. Yes, it was an easy fix, but your average home user has no idea how to fix these issues, and really doesn't want their 11 or 12 year old child seeing that sort of thing "pop up" on the screen while he or she is looking at the Power Rangers web site.
   All I'm really getting at is that Microsoft needs to take these things into consideration in structuring Windows 7.
   btw. If you want to be taken seriously about your posts, you have to explain your point of view. Just saying, "you guys are dumb" really isn't a very compelling argument.

3. Comment - PDC 2008: Look out for the 'delighters' in Windows 7

   (Oct 30, 2008 - 1:43 PM)

   Funny, but I don't recall mentioning Windows 7 in my comment at all. My comment was simply a suggestion as to where I think MS should be taking Windows 7. Any other inference is in the part of the reader.

4. Comment - PDC 2008: Look out for the 'delighters' in Windows 7

   (Oct 30, 2008 - 10:47 AM)

   Microsoft! Now hear this!
   
   1: Shiny does not equal better
   2: more is actually less
   
   It all started with XP's "LUNA interface". more searching and clicking to get fewer results. But we got over that childish bit, and XP grew into a mature, well behaved OS that everybody could comfortably use. Kudos to the MS XP team!
   Then Vista! can you say, "WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?" Being an IT by profession, and being in the business since 1979 I have to say that removing Vista, and installing XP on computers has become my bread and butter, right behind spyware removal. Personally I see the installation of XP onto a newer PC as an upgrade. To functionality! So, microsoft, lets try the "less is more" approach. We don't need a 3D GUI that requires a massive graphics card to operate. I neither need nor do I want URGE or any other storefront built into my software. That's just telemarketing at it's worst. As for cardspace, give us a break. Do you really think that anyone with an IQ over his or her shoe size is going to entrust YOU with personal data? Stop with all the messengers and share to web crapola and give us back the days of reliable, private, safe, and usable computing. We had that from Windows 3.1 all the way through XP, ( with the exception of Media player 11 and .net 3.0 ) and give us fewer OS versions. What is it now? 6 versions of Vista? Have you gone completely round the bend?
   Putting more into an OS, or even your Office Suite just makes it that much harder for the average person to use. I could do everything with Office 2000, or even Office 97 that I have to do in Office 200?-what, 7 is it now? For that matter, I have been using Open Office for a while, and I must say, for a free app to do anything an overbloated monster of an office suite that costs me hundreds of dollars will do is really astounding. Lets hear a big round of applause for the Opensource community.
   Remember the old addage, K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple Stupid.) Try to keep in mind that you will never be able to push an OS that is written by geeks, for geeks, and it takes a geek to understand. Talk to the average Joe that wants to e-mail, and check the news online. The last thing he or she wants is a bunch of flashy stuff popping up to annoy them. What you think of as cool, is probably just an irritant to your greatest demographic, the home user.