Wired Online - 7 reasons to avoid Windows 7

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/08/7-reasons-to-avoid-windows-7/

Yesterday, Wired Online published a piece of '10 Reasons to Upgrade to Windows 7,' which was a decent overview of the upgrades from XP or Vista. By no means was it a glorious profession of 'this is the greatest OS ever!' but it did make a good argument that people should seriously consider the upgrade. And why not? Vista, for as much as people hate it, was a significant upgrade to XP, and if used properly, was all-around better: faster, more secure, a bit flashier.

I have one problem with today's reasons to avoid Windows 7. All of the points made were very logical, from price to some of the installations. However, this stuck out:

"Snow Leopard Is Almost Here
Apple’s next-generation Snow Leopard is arriving September — a month before Windows 7. Apple is promising its OS will deliver on many of the improvements Microsoft highlights in Windows 7 — 64-bit addressing, improved efficiency with task management on multiple processors, and others. It’s undetermined which OS is better, but from my own perspective as a long-time Mac user, I will say I already prefer the current Mac OS X Leopard to Windows 7. If you’re looking (or willing) to switch to a radically different OS, then OS X Snow Leopard is an option to consider before committing to Windows 7."

Seriously? Wired, you should be ashamed. Brian X. Chen, "From my own experience as a long-time Mac user?" Why did you get a long-time, Mac user to write an article about the bad things in Windows? I understand that the person to best see the downside to Windows is a Mac person, but if this is the case, you need to find people who are BIOS (BI-OS, it's a pun, get it?) or tri-OS (throw Linux in there, AND DON'T TELL ME THAT MAC OS IS THE SAME AS LINUX!), and have them write an article. I use Mac and PC (though I am PC dominant, and use Linux second), but I could tell you what's wrong with Windows 7... and tell you what's good about it. I could tell you what's good about OS 10.5, and what's bad about it.

It might be time to start taking this blogging and freelance thing seriously...