Look at HP’s drivers, for example, their printer and scanner driver packages can be up to 500mb in size for the full download, or 45mb for the basic driver download.
I don’t care how many drivers it has, a driver and its accompanying programs if necessary should never grow to the monstrous proportions that some of those in Windows have become. If there’s a lot of these programs included with the Windows 7 drivers, that might explain the diskspace. Windows drivers also tend to be bloated with lots of manufacturer-provided add-on programs (HP, I’m looking at you) and I know Vista included some of those. Personally I’d sooner make the user do more things manually (within reason of course) so that they are actively thinking about things as they do it – consciously deciding to open up an application rather than the brain on autopilot and all hell breaking loose because of a loose trigger finger when it comes to left click on dialogue boxes. I personally don’t see the justification of automating something that was never complicated in the first place – namely double clicking on the device then going in and running the said application or simply loading the relevant application as you need it. Windows 7 has also changed the nature in which autoplay/autorun is done which should mitigate the spreading of it – although I personally believe that autorun/autoplay should be disabled by default. What ever patch went into Windows Vista is also in Windows 7 given that the patch would have gone in the head of the development tree, ported back and provided via download. Will those get security fixes or can we prepare for a 7RCconficker?Ĭonflicker was addressed last year with a security patch, IIRC October 28, 2008.
I see a lot of stupid people using the RC as their main OS.
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