Date   : Fri, 18 Sep 2009 23:25:20 +0200
From   : rick@... (Rick Murray)
Subject: Beeb, this was your grandma!

Steve O'Leary wrote:

> And of course that featured our own Rex Malik of

That wasn't the bloke in "The Secret Life Of ..." series, was it?


 > an excellent computer jornalist who could not be influenced by hype.

A truly rare breed. I happened upon an interesting forum a while back 
where a respected American magazine was going to wait for a proper 
release of Windows 7 so they can bring a balanced review, but they 
hinted that they'd give it a 5 stars rating. One of the features they 
expressly liked was that, on the same hardware it was faster than Vista. 
It was pointed out that so is cold treacle, and Win7 couldn't match XP 
doing the same stuff on the same hardware. Hehe, so one must wonder if a 
beta version of a system which has already shown to be lesser than its 
predecessor gets five stars, how influenced are they already? And let's 
not even go into the realm of Apple's hypefest product releases... :-)



Best wishes,

Rick.

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