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Engadget: Windows 7 review

Engadget:

"Oh, Windows. You inform and entertain us. You are inescapable, and your Start menu is full of items relevant to our productivity. You move us. Sort of. To be honest, we're not sure what sort of state this fair planet of ours would be in without the ruggedly functional operating systems the folks at Redmond have handed to us over the years, and while Windows Vista might have proved that Microsoft wasn't invincible, it did nothing to demonstrate that Windows as an idea -- and for most, a necessity -- was at all in jeopardy."

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Pizzagaki5404d ago

Haters suck, and MS owns.
The vision of MS created so many ICT jobs in the world, they deserve nothing but praise.

The ICT world would have been a shadow of what it currently is without MS their involvement.

Ghoul5404d ago

if there is a company that did serious damage to the IT industry and cost thousands of peoples theyre jobs (non ms workers) because ms boughtt destroyed or simply stole theyre business.

time to learn something about the it history my friend. If there is one to profit from MS its MS themself NOONE else.

fact not opinion

Pizzagaki5404d ago (Edited 5404d ago )

pffft, collateral damage, MS created 1000 x as much jobs.
Like i said, they are responsible for almost the entire ICT sector.

It may be a fact, but the fact that MS created more jobs then destroyed them, outweighs your little example.

IzKyD13315403d ago

Thats nice, are they paying you? No? Didn't think so....

SnuggleBandit5403d ago

i disagree...if microsoft didn't monoploize the industry like it did, things would be a lot better and we would see tech being pushed farther and faster. People really have two options, pay microsoft for their (industry standard) software or buy overpriced and often software incompatible macs.

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wxer5404d ago

WOW
looks like they only changed the name from VISTA to 7
now im talking about the look

but as long as the working part gose
i have to try it out first

Nitrowolf25404d ago

i like how 7 is running. I was on XP for a while and went to window 7 beta. the only issue i had (becuase ts beta) is that i would update and after the update my computer is buggy. i downgraded to Vista Lite, its like vista but with XP performance

Kakkoii5403d ago

Obviously they aren't going to radically change the layout. That was one of the main reasons that made Vista adoption rate so poor. Lot's of people didn't like the idea of a whole new change to an interface they had become comfortable with over the years. If they did that again with 7, that would be disastrous. The only real visual change is the Aero bar at the bottom, which is a nice improvement.

On the performance/stability side, a lot has been optimized and improved. A lot of things that will help games run faster on multi-core machines too.

mantasis5404d ago

I installed this on my Mac...windows still pales in comparison to the mac OSX...I like the window resizing thing though, is cool :)

Kakkoii5403d ago

How exactly does it pale in comparison? What exactly about Mac's GUI is more efficient or better? Not being able to right click? Oh yeah, that's great...

Elven65404d ago

Why so negative N4G commenter's?? The review is generally positive about Windows 7.

cond3m3r5403d ago

I've had bad experience with Microsoft...in jus about every item ive bought with their brand on it...vista is a slug...360 has died...mouses broke...webcam sucks monkeys...but window 7 is pretty good (at least the RC versions are)..makes me feel like its XP with a lil vista style to it. It's well worth the upgrade.

Kakkoii5403d ago (Edited 5403d ago )

Yeah same, Windows 7 feels like an acceptable successor to XP.

I've been using the same stock Microsoft laser mouse for about 7 years now, works great.

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Days Gone Director Says Bend's Project Costs Over $250M; Says PS Co-CEO Doesn't Want 2 Zombies Games

Days Gone director claims Sony has already poured in at least a $250M in Bend's project; says Days Gone sold more than Death Stranding.

shinoff218316h ago

Well that sucks. Seems they want more online trash. I'd rather of had the sequel if it was single player

MrNinosan1h ago

What online trash games did PS Studios release last 10 years?

-Foxtrot15h ago

It would be a shame if it was true that Hermen never gave the franchise a chance simply because he didn't like it and they already had a "Zombie" game with TLOU.

NaughtyDog are most likely moving onto a new IP next so it would have been the perfect time to do it.

ThinkThink7h ago

Here's where xbox steps in and releases state of decay 3 day and date on ps5.

Grilla1h ago

Days gone 2 was canceled before Herman was in charge. That happened like 4 years ago.

vfl52330m ago

4 years ago he was head of Playstation Studios. He would've probably had a hand in the cancelation.

excaliburps2h ago

Yep. Kind of weird since it wasn't a sales flop, no?

I know we have to take what Ross says with a grain of salt since we're hearing just one side of the story, but even so, the game wasn't bad at all. Heck, it's my brother's favorite last-gen game from what I recall.

The amount of zombies on screen, imagine that with the PS5 and SSD? That would be insanely fun!

Grilla1h ago

Most copies were sold on sale. Not enough ppl bought it at full price. I paid 20$ for it 6 -7 months after release.

P_Bomb1h ago

Well I don’t want 10 live service games, but they have no problem doing that lol. Ugh.

CrimsonWing691h ago(Edited 1h ago)

Oh great so we only get what the big wigs want… y’know, the people that really have their fingers on the pulse of what their consumers want. Faaaaantastic!

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Sand Land Review - Toriyama's Swan Song | MP1st

Sand Land Review - Akira Toriyama's two decade old manga has received new life with a recent anime adaptation and now a video game as well.

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Dragon's Dogma 2 Gets DLSS Frame Generation: 77% FPS Gain with Broken Shadows

Dragon’s Dogma 2 has received a new title update that adds Frame Generation for NVIDIA RTX 40 series users (only). Unfortunately, the vast majority of gamers on RTX 30/RTX 20 and Radeon GPUs will have to keep waiting for an FSR 3 implementation of frame generation. There’s another tiny issue with the update.

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