Black is white, up is down.

Paul Thurrott, on his bullshit laden “SuperSite for Windows” espouses:

“Microsoft today will announce its plans for the various Windows 7 product editions it will sell when that OS is released to the public sometime this year. And I am thrilled to reveal that it’s good news for a change. Here’s what’s happening.”

For those who haven’t heard, Microsoft is simplifying things by going from 6 versions of Vista, to 5 versions of Windows 7. This. Is. Progress? According to Thurrot, yes.

“Unlike with Vista, where Microsoft crowded the market with too many mainstream product editions, Windows 7 will ship in just a handful of common-sense product editions. And also unlike with Vista, these product editions are all true supersets of each other, so there are no overlapping feature sets (which is good) and upgrades will be much simpler (which is even better).”

I’ll give Microsoft credit for removing the overlapping feature sets, but come on. 5 editions of a product (not counting the inevitable Server edition, which brings us back up to 6) is not how you simplify things. You simplify things by going to one version.

Of course, Thurrott is a Microsoft shill, so his cheerleading on this unimpressive “change” is not surprising.

Category: Opinion