While the world waits for Windows 7.

[H-kon]

...it reminds me quite a lot of the situation when Windows 2000 was released back in the old days.

I am quite impressed with Windows 7 to be honest, it's fast, it looks pretty good, but as with Windows 2000, it is a business OS camouflaged as an OS for the home user.

This is also why i am still here after all these years, hoping that Haiku can change things,  just like Be did change my view on how an OS for the home user could be.

It has become one of my concerns, that the internet and that computing has changed dramatically for business/work use while the home user is trapped on Facebook and is being spoon-fed the latest EA title. Computing has to be something more than that.  Perhaps it's because i grew up on Amiga's, and C=64's that were made for the home user.

Linux hasn't improved much either in all these years, perhaps that is why LOTD is the same running joke as Duke.

I am glad to be home

[altp]

I am quite impressed with Windows 7 to be honest, it's fast, it looks pretty good, but as with Windows 2000, it is a business OS camouflaged as an OS for the home user.

i disagree completely. in a large corporate environment, the administration side of windows has taken a GIANT leap backwards.

Copying large amounts of data between file servers is SLOW.
Doesn't have the drop down for domains at the login prompt anymore
Security settings are buried deep. As are most configuration things that I have to get into, remotely over VNC, on a regular basis.

i could go on and on. From a users standpoint its a huge jump forward. from a sysadmin standpoint i'd like to kick it to the curb. its a nightmare.