Windows 7 to be what Vista was supposed to be
By Jonathan Schlaffer
Microsoft is hoping that Windows 7 will allow it to put all the ills, heartaches and feelings of anger that Vista brought to its current customers. Windows 7 is set to replace Vista in the late 2009 to early 2010 timeframe. The question remains what will be in store for those that "upgrade" from Vista to Windows 7.
The word is either not much or something entirely different. The entirely different is because Windows 7 might be a more "modular" operating system which will likely lead to more confusion. I think this is more of a bad thing than good but if done right could be a good thing.
The not much part is that Microsoft is or should focus on making Windows 7 a "lighter" and less resource heavy version of Vista while refining its security features (UAC for one - it just doesn’t work right). Then toss in some features or refine existing ones to make it more attractive to business users.
Most businesses are perfectly happy to keep Windows XP for the time being and see no need for Vista. Microsoft will need to make Windows 7 an attractive option for them; to keep them as customers or else they might seek other options.
If Microsoft knows what’s good for it, Windows 7 will be based off Windows Server 2008 code and will have distinct business and consumer editions rather than trying to fit every edition and delineating feature on a single DVD (as is the case with Vista).
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April 12th, 2008
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April 13th, 2008
… And in the meantime quite a few of us will install A Linux distro on that second partition as a nice companion to XP… and some of us won’t come back to another MS product once we learn to live without it.
April 15th, 2008
If you want an OS based off 2008, it’s Vista.
Same code and architecture.