Now it got finally unveiled! The name of the new announce Vista successor is….. tatataaaaahhh Windows 7 - How impressive!!

I really do not like to know how many marketing guys, consultants and even high paid Microsoft folks were sitting about this decisions calling the new Operating System of Microsoft just and plainly Windows 7.

Back to the roots? Giving up all those tries to sell something mainly unsellable by giving it some fancy new name?

Hey!! My system is now running on sexy new Microsoft Vista SP1! And I really like it! It has this rather sexy and neat option scrolling through open windows and another million new features I can’t remember to find and I might never explore again, as for I’m only using it for searching the net, answering my emails, some chatting and really rarely burning some music CDs (for sure a backup copy of my prior bought original soundtrack) for the car…….

How many "Operation System" do we really need? Another 98 new features no one will ever use in daily business?

At a time companies are refusing to upgrade and the actual OS is just able to get sold bundled with some new hardware the question might be allowed. Do we need it? Do we need to upgrade? Why should we upgrade?

Just to figure out the OS does now need more resources and our System (bought last year) does urgently need a memory upgrade to be able to deal again with all those new animations and gimmicks clever Microsoft Developers have invented for us?

Ok, I’m just naming Microsoft here, which is unfair for sure as for other companies do the same …. It’s their job to write and invent new things and exactly the stuff they are making their money with. But thinking about that all, I really ask myself how to think about their actual approach calling their new Windows version just and simply Windows 7.

Perhaps being just honest and naming it purely by what it is? Just another new upgrade of this worldwide, well know and stable settled Microsoft OS for Personal Computer based on X86 architecture?

Will this give more trust to the customer? Will this now making them more wishing to upgrade to it?

Sooner or later we will see …. And I can’t prevent offering that I’m very interested in getting some feedback soon, on how the market will react on that.

If asked about, I really would vote for establishing some kind of official and obligate "Using Permission"  for Computer Systems. Some permission you have to own first, before being allowed to buy and/or operate any kind of Personal Computer - best combined with some really difficult knowledge TEST!!!

Really!! It would help for sure keeping efforts low for those being familiar with computers already.

Ask yourself?! How many time were you already asked about to give support and fix some issue on a system you’ve never seen before. Just because it is own by some friend or family and they know about you as familiar and experienced with stuff?

So was I! Yesterday I was called by a guy (not teeling about the person) telling me that his system would refuse to boot. Coming up with a message about "no bootloader found" …. Doesn’t that tell everthing? Already

Especially when it is your 2nd system and you have used other computers before?

What have you done to force this problem? … Nussing!! …. Nothing I asked? …. Yeah honestly and absolutely nothing!
(Gald he didn’t say I swear though)

Loosing the usual hour on the phone by guiding him through several BIOS screens and boot menu options without being able to see them myself we figured it out. Directly!! After I made him changing several different settings and discussing the result of the following tests to boot with him. Yeah! I’ve figured it out, that the boot device order had changed … "suddenly" … "by itself" … "like a mystery"?! From SATA drive 0 to 3 …., removeable devices like floppy were generally disabled and .. how clever! the DVD ROM came closely behind the harddisk!

Come on boy! Am I stupid? Do I still believe in the tooth fairy?!

Ok, this time it was family and I did not mind (telling myself again). But at the end it turned out that it MUST have changed automatically when he RESTORED an image backup shortly before …… oh my ….  

By coincidence I did run into a discussion making me aware about how difficult it is to loose some given status someone claims for him or herself.

I guess everyone of us working with computers is familiar with the old dispute between Mac and PC users about who has the better system …. 

Sure I was also jokng from time to time and one time I even lighted a wild discussion about when I very mindless wrote a cheeky comment at an internet list.

Since a while I’m used to work with both and I have to confess that i have likes and dislikes at both sides. It is not that I would really prefer on, but there is also no one I would define or decide as better or superior. At the end both world are the result of there history and special in some way.

But back to the topic. My recent posting about the Mojave Experiment I did send also to this internet list with no idea, but to share it. At the end I was amaze people there starting again to talk about PC versus Mac.

Now knowing myself that OSX since a while is running on non Apple hardware I try to prevent people there again running into a wild discussion but was amazed myself about some responses like:

"I kind of miss the days when you could walk into the Apple Store and there were only the true believers"

Wow! It must be really hard to recognise that your MAC is just another computer at the end.  

ps: You don’t take my todays posting too serious please … 

I know that I scratch a difficult topic today and that the front between the different parties are very strict enforced - Just  … who cares?!

Whenever a discussion between Mac and PC users comparing there system starts, it ends up in a big discussion comparing all the benefits - depending on which side they are - they believe to have!

I personal never saw it really that polarized.

For sure I’m a major Windows User working with PC’s since the very first IBM XT I touched. But I also have a long and old history working with other Operating Systems  like VMS and Open VMS, Ultrix , TrueUnix 64 nearly all other available UNIX Distributions someone thought about to implement once.

So I guess it just didn’t happend to me, being seriously forced to work with some Macintosh Computer before.

Nevertheless by staying in contact with quiet a lot of folks being confirmed Mac Users by own word, I know a lot about Mac’s and OSX. And I really would lie in case I would try to hide that since a while I’m sneaking around those systems again and again recognising more and more things I like about them.

For example one of those things I really like about Mac OSX is the Dock application it comes with! Some really cool and neat application launcher always just one click away to start some needed application.

Now recently a friend made me aware about some “Dock” clone for Windows which I downloaded and installed.

It is called RocketDock and can be downloaded for free. Try it, and I’m sure you will immediately like it as much as I do!!