Seriously people…

This just annoys me. Apparently people are all pissed off that the Windows 7 RC resets your default browser to IE, and doesn’t come with Firefox or an other browser. Give me a break. Win 7 is a Microsoft product. It comes with a Microsoft web browser. DUH. And lets face it, its not exactly rocket science to change your default browser or have to re-download a different one. /rant.

Speaking of Windows 7, I installed it on my laptop yesterday. (My ancient, slow, clunky laptop. The real test of a new OS! See how well it works on obsolete technology!) The install was very easy, and I had absolutely no problems setting things up. Its working well so far, and is very swanky looking, so I’ll probably have to post more about it once I’ve had more of a chance to play around with things.

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4 Responses to “Seriously people…”

  1. Matt Says:
    May 7th, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    Well, it would be nice if it didn’t reset your default browser. That just seems a little petty to me. The whole not coming with Firefox thing, though? Duh! What, should it come with iTunes instead of WMP, too?

  2. Rosanne Lester Says:
    May 7th, 2009 at 8:20 pm

    I suppose, but its not like its THAT much of a deal to change. I mean, I had to re-download everything anyways. Cuz I had FF on my comp before, but its sure gone now. Along with everything else that was on my comp. So really, if everything gets wiped, it makes sense that it switches the default to the one that comes with the program.

    And yeah, I’m pretty sure the mac OS doesn’t come with IE. lol and I’m also pretty sure that no one would ever make a big fuss over that one! So it seems like a bit of a double standard for MS.

  3. Matt Says:
    May 7th, 2009 at 10:10 pm

    Well, in all fairness, Macs are superior to PCs in every way ;)

    So this everything getting wiped–was it because you were running XP, or am I going to be in trouble with my Vista desktop?

  4. Rosanne Lester Says:
    May 8th, 2009 at 7:34 am

    um… not sure about vista. I can’t say I read the instructions all that carefully. But for XP you had to do either a clean install or partition your drive. And my drive isn’t very big (and needed to be formatted anyways) so I just did a clean install right on the C drive.

    ugh. Macs. lol don’t get me started ;)

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