The point of the comment was that AT THE TIME there were no arguments for or against the article, but the article was still tagged as astroturf. If people had actually read the article and thought it to be a non-review, they'd surely point that out. Instead they just tag it with their preconception, i.e. positive Win7 review is astroturfing, Macs have Apple tax, DRM is defective by design, etc.
And TFA is not void of negative points:
- "Do note that some users have claimed to have limited success running the Windows 7 beta with less than 1GB of RAM, but that's not recommended."
- "One annoying change is that Bluetooth driver support no longer comes baked into the operating system. If you need a Bluetooth driver, you'll either need the installation disc on hand or you'll have to go and download it."
- "The search field, however, is available by default only in the Start menu and in Windows Explorer and cannot be easily added to the taskbar."
- "The hardware sometimes misread some of the multitouch gestures, occasionally confusing rotating an image, for example, with zooming in or out of the image."
- "[XP mode] is not easy to set up once you've downloaded the XP Mode installer. You'll need to double-check that you have the right hardware, and can get the right software. Hardware Virtualization Technology, also known as AMD-V, Vanderpool or VT-d, must be supported for it to work. Motherboards older than two years probably won't work, and even if you do have a newer one you might have to go into your BIOS and activate Hardware Virtualization."
- "Microsoft has tweaked the [UAC] so that it's less intrusive, but it's not clear whether that means you're actually more or less secure than you were in Vista."
- "Windows 7 feels faster than Windows XP and Vista, but it turns out that's not always the case -- sometimes, it's the slowest of the three operating systems."
- "It was slower than XP and Vista, however, for both booting up cold by a little more than 1 second, and slower than either of its predecessors in its Microsoft Office performance."