Enough Pottymouthing
Greg Shields has blogged about an article on InfoWorld; the basic gist of the blog post is that Vista is terrible, Windows 7 will be terrible, and only InfoWorld can provide you with “testing” software to determine if your computer can run Windows 7 (they suggest that even your “quad-core monster” will be “crying for mercy”). Greg’s point, which I agree with, is that this is getting ridiculous.
Let’s agree that Microsoft did a bad job of explaining to folks that Vista would have significantly higher system requirements. But it’s seeming unlikely that Win7 will require much more than Vista, being based itself on the Vista code. It’s not reasonable to assume that each new OS will require more and more; Win95 to Win98 to WinMe, for example, all ran pretty well on basically the same hardware for a 5-year period; WinXP didn’t add much in terms of system requirements on top of its predecessor, Win2000. Sure, Vista was a big change, but it’s unlikely that, a mere 2 years later, MS is going to have to ratchet up the baseline again.
Besides, as Greg correctly notes, InfoWorld seems to love to hate Vista. What’s up with the media? Sure, Vista’s not been a home run for Microsoft and plenty of folks (as evidenced in my workshop yesterday at Windows Connections) are still using XP; is all the Vista-bashing still necessary, though?
What’s most irritating (aside from InfoWorld’s insanely in-your-face interstitial and DHTML ads) is that InfoWorld is basically using this fear-mongering as a way of pushing their “Windows Sentinel PC monitoring tool,” which includes the “Windows 7 compatibility calculator.”
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