Windows 7 – Just keeps getting dumber
Well, I played around with the Windows 7 beta a while back, but not too much.
Recently the Windows 7 Release Candidate 1 came out, so I decided to pop it in and see what is new, and what I’ve found is painfully disappointing in most cases.
Microsoft is continuing in their tradition of dumbing-down their operating systems to the lowest common denominator, making power users such as myself feeling… well… feeling like Micorsoft is calling us dumb.
Case and point; first thing I do to any machine I own running Vista (or Win 7 now) is to disable Windows Defender, and Windows Firewall. These are 2 services I have never ever once found useful, and ALWAYS end up being a pain in the ass at some point, and they generally slow down your computer. So, I went ahead and axed both of these services as usual by first disabling them in the control panel, then disabling their actual service from starting up.
So, a while after I did that I was getting stuff set up, and went to enable Remote Desktop, and what do I see when I try and enable it…