Worst. Windows 7. Piece. EVER!
Summary: Over on Slashdot is perhaps the worst piece on Windows 7 that I've see so far (I find it hard to believe that this one will be beaten anytime soon ...).
Over on Slashdot is perhaps the worst piece on Windows 7 that I've see so far (I find it hard to believe that this one will be beaten anytime soon ...).
A few days' testing of Windows 7 has already disclosed some draconian DRM, some of it unrelated to media files. A legitimate copy of Photoshop CS4 stopped functioning after we clobbered a nagging registration screen by replacing a DLL with a hacked version. With regard to media files, the days of capturing an audio program on your PC seem to be over (if the program originated on that PC). The inputs of your sound card are severely degraded in software if the card is also playing an audio program (tested here with Grooveshark). This may be the tip of the iceberg. Being in bed with the RIAA is bad enough, but locking your own files away from you is a tactic so outrageous it may kill the OS for many persons. Many users will not want to experiment with a second sound card or computer just to record from online sources, or boot up under a Linux that supports ntfs-3g just to control their files.
OK, just a few points worth making:
- Someone messes about with Photoshop in order to crack it, the program then breaks, and that's somehow the fault of Windows?!?!!
- Why would Photoshop CS4 contains some super-secret anti-tamper system that's incorporated into Windows 7?
- What DLL was changed? Cracks are very variable and many just don't work.
- As to the inability to record, this is also an issue under Vista, and is highly dependent on the sound card and sound card driver used. An example of this is Realtek drivers - OEM supplied drivers usually have recording crippled and to get access to full features you have to download the full driver.
The piece goes on to howl at the moon about Windows firewall (describing behavior already exhibited by Windows firewall in Vista).
Utter nonesense.
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The pot calling the kettle....
What did I miss?
It's not Vista SP2. It's Vista SE.
Not Vista SE, Vista Millenium!
No. No it doesn't...
actually it does
ME was a great OS...
Re: ME was a great OS...
I don't buy this theory
That was pretty random and off topic, but I'll play along..
If that's not small enough to be called a service pack, then what is? An update to minesweeper?
You're right, and pieces like that
It also allows them to make cosmetic changes, with a couple of poorly thought out interface changes, and call it a new revision, worthy of the customer's money.
RE: You're right, and pieces like that
To quote the article:
"Someone messes about with Photoshop in order to crack it, the program then breaks, and that?s somehow the fault of Windows?!?!!"
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When a DLL that removes a nag screen, kills a program, it's indication that something has changed. Drastically.
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"Why would Photoshop CS4 contains some super-secret anti-tamper system that?s incorporated into Windows 7? "
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How do you know it doesn't? Why wouldn't it? Other companies have done it (remember Sony's rootkit?). Have you examined the source code? Since you don't know, and do not understand, it would be better not to comment on it.
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"What DLL was changed? Cracks are very variable and many just don?t work."
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If it worked before, and now it does not, something has changed. Especially if the crack ONLY eliminated the nag screen.
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"As to the inability to record, this is also an issue under Vista, and is highly dependent on the sound card and sound card driver used. An example of this is Realtek drivers - OEM supplied drivers usually have recording crippled and to get access to full features you have to download the full driver."
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If it's an issue under Vista, it kinda points to M$ doesn't it? As for crippling features, and drivers, did you happen to ask them about what drivers they were using? I'm pretty sure you didn't. You simply wanted to comment on an article you clearly didn't understand, nor want to since you want to defend M$ against logical, reasonable examinations of the limitations of its OS.
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"The piece goes on to howl at the moon about Windows firewall (describing behavior already exhibited by Windows firewall in Vista)."
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Pointing out the fact that the same behavior from an OLDER OPERATING SYSTEM exists in a new one, is a bit relevant. I mean, isn't W7 supposed to be NEW?
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"Utter nonesense."
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Only if you don't know what you're talking about.
WTF?
The moment someone "hacks" a piece of software,
that software *should* no longer work, simply
because one can no longer prove the provenance
of that piece of software. How that "test" of
Windows 7 ended up in a technology review as a
legitimate concern is beyond me. All it proves
is that a hacked piece of software worked
before and no longer works now. If anything
that's a good thing, not bad.
Further, you write in your post, "If it's an
issue under Vista, it kinda points to M$
doesn't it? As for crippling features, and
drivers, did you happen to ask them about what
drivers they were using? I'm pretty sure you
didn't. You simply wanted to comment on an
article you clearly didn't understand, nor want
to since you want to defend M$ against logical,
reasonable examinations of the limitations of
its OS."
I would expect the original Slashdot poster to
*know* that lack of features can be due to
driver issues. If he does not know that, he has
no business writing about something he has only
partial knowledge of.
As for you asking Adrian "if he asked the
Slashdot reviewer about the which drivers that
poster was using", Adrian doesn't owe him that
question before slating his review. It is up to
a reviewer to establish that they have been
thorough in their examination of a piece of
hardware or software.
PS: Writing M$ makes you look like a 14 year
old (which you might very well be). I'd prefer
to read either Microsoft or MS. At least that
way one would have some reason to give your
point of view some credence.
Windows 7 must be good...
A hacked dll can fail any system
Did you even
In typical slashdot fashion
live under.
I saw it this morning. To be fair, though, the ABM
frenzy died out rather quickly and more reasonable
voices were modded up.
Last time I checked the discussion the later posts
seemed to home in on the same blatant FUD that Adrian
has called out here, as well as aiming some sarcastic
opinions against "kdawson".
It will crash and burn!     Wait... It already is
Do you think?
Shouldn't you be doing some cost analysis or something? (nt)