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Does that mean a Microsoft COO is admitting that Vista is bad then? That is bigger news to me, than anything anyone at Microsoft can say about Apple or Google, they are competitors of course.

And since Windows 7 is just a polished Vista, I am not sure what point he is trying to make?

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Does that mean a Microsoft COO is admitting that Vista is bad then? That is bigger news to me

Really? They did that years ago.[1]

And since Windows 7 is just a polished Vista...

That old chestnut, huh? Something like, "Windows 7 is a 64-bit tweak of a 32-bit extension of a 16-bit user interface for an 8-bit operating system for a 4-bit architecture from a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition."

Wikipedia has a good article on new features in Windows 7. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_7

[1] EDIT: Reading comprehension failure on my part: somehow I missed the capital "COO" in the sentence. However, various Microsoft employees at various levels in the company have admitted Vista is bad.

Read your list, did not see anything that could not be added by a SP into Vista. I see Windows 7 and Vista as no different to XP and 2000, and Windows ME and 98.

Yes, there are new things in each OS, but they are not different enough to warrant being called a new OS.

And linux kernel 2.4 is just a patch away from being 2.6, and os9 is just a patch away from being osX. Just because we like discussions here doesn't mean we have to argue for the sake of arguing.

  Win2K: NT 5.0
  WinXP: NT 5.1
  Wista: NT 6.0
  Seven: NT 6.1

Oh please. How good or bad Vista was is beside the point; the comparison is between how Vista and the iPhone 4 are perceived.

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