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I just read an article from PCmag.com (owned by Ziff Davis Media). The title of the article is "Windows XP: still the best" So I was curious what the writers (Sascha Segan) opinion was on Windows Vista. This is what Sascha wrote:
"Vista is basically XP with Microsoft clones of a bunch of third-party add-ons, minus a lot of driver and program compatibility. It's like your old best friend with an embarrassing and expensive new haircut. Yawn."
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"....Microsoft made no changes to major core underpinnings of the OS."
Now everyone is entitled to write down their own opinions and believe me I have had my fair share of Vista issues since it RTM'ed, but you would expect this kind of quotes in some kind of non technical magazine. This is PC Magazine! This writer does not have a clue what Vista is and wites about it on a major online technical website. This makes me "yawn"!
Ah well, just my opinion. Maybe he should keep his articles on Mobile devices:
Sascha Segan is PC Magazine's Lead Analyst for mobile phones and PDAs. He is responsible for testing, benchmarking and evaluating mobile phones and other handheld devices. Sascha joined the magazine in 2004 after covering consumer electronics for technology, travel and lifestyle publications, and editing the now hard-to-find book, "I Just Got a Cell Phone, Now What?" He once helped cover an election in Africa using only a PalmPilot Professional with a modem and attachable keyboard as his traveling gear.
Read the article at source and tell me what you think.
Funny Paul Thurrot writes about a similar experience today:
ZDNet blogger gets it horribly wrong
"I love Mac OS.... It’s built on a more modern foundation...."
UNIX is NOT more modern than NT, even aside from the BSD-on-Mach mess Apple has created in OS X.
"Recommend that your IT department’s Web server run on some variant of Unix."
Just like all those other sites that are switching away from Apache in droves (according to Netcraft)?
Despite the embarrassingly obvious technical inadequacies/inaccuracies of the article, this is the same retread of any Windows release. I'm sure he'd just love to go back to Windows 98, too. Is it a requirement of being a tech media journalist to have no memory of such things? He's hardly the only one.
LOL @ "UNIX is NOT more modern than NT..."
This comment reminds me of Lt. Cmdr. Data from Star Trek Next Generation when he is introduced to his creator and "brother," Lore... "I am NOT less perfect than Lore."
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Anyway, I agree... ZD is quickly reaching a point where Mary Jo Foley is the only good writer they seem to have anymore. Sascha Segan and Jo Wilcox are complete morons and seem to misrepresent facts at every turn they take. Clearly, Paul has run into issues with the other writer too, so it's obvious to anyone with a brain that ZD is losing a grip with reality.
UNIX has a number of rather antiquated OS notions. Note that antiquated doesn't necessarily equal bad. But if you look at NT internals, it clearly has some more modern OS concepts in it.
I'm sure Dave Cutler would agree.... :P
Steven, I read this article too. It's in the mag. It was published along with a particularly bad Dvorak column about Vista as well.
I stayed pretty well-informed about Vista leading up to it's release and read a lot of commentary on it. Things like the UAC, I at least expected to be a little annoying, based on the complaints, but to my shock it was a complete non-issue for me. How thoroughly they misportrayed what they were writing about has stuck with me. I take everything with a grain of salt...and that's not counting the stuff I just outright take as complete BS.
There seems to ba slew of bad journalists of late. eWeek has one who loves to bash Microsoft [in an article that has nothing to do with them]. You turn over the page and you'll see the same guy praising a new product of theirs. I stopped reading his crap.