Windows 7 seen as “Vista done right”
It’s fairly obvious that Vista has been a flop and users as well as industry professionals have made Microsoft well aware of this fact. There is almost no compelling reason for the average user or business to put money into upgrading to Vista. Some of these people are best advised to wait anyway because Windows 7 promises to be “Vista done right.”
According to Crunchgear the Windows 7 install was completed in an hour though other reports have it being completed in as little as 30 minutes on sufficiently fast hardware. Lockergnome reports that after the install was complete the computer was ready to use. It did lack a few drivers here and there, but overall the completeness of the install was far greater than it was with Vista.
It still lacks an integrated security suite though the basic firewall and Windows Defender are included they should not be relied on as a primary level of defense. You will still need a standalone security suite. This is no different than it has been for previous versions of Windows. It would be nice to see this change with Microsoft since the company is working on a free version of its security suite.
Windows 7 will be an improvement over Vista. Will it be enough or too little too late? This game is too early to call but it’s hard to not say that Windows 7 is what Vista should have been.
Hopefully Microsoft will be more compelled to get Windows 7 exactly right before rushing it out the door. No matter how big a company it may be even the executives there have seen the value of making a quality product instead of simply releasing something for the sake of releasing it.
Windows 7 had better be the biggest release since Windows XP or Microsoft may find more of its much coveted market share slipping away to Mac or Linux or both.
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December 18th, 2008
Windows 7 is Beta at best…with all due respect…how can anyone give a honest review on something that is not complete and not ready to be released in its entirety?
This smells of desperation and it seems to speak volumes of how much Vista is a dog.
December 18th, 2008
No chance of Microsoft including security software into Windows because of “Anti-Competitive” concerns.
Stupid, but what can they do?
December 19th, 2008
@ColinXavier,
Quote: ‘No chance of Microsoft including security software into [sic] Windows [...] what can they do?’
They could write a solid OS that doesn’t require security software. One wonders if that thought has ever crossed the mind of anyone at Redmond.
December 19th, 2008
@Hugh
No OS will ever “Not require” security software. OSX and Linux get by simply because they don’t have 90%+ market share.
December 19th, 2008
@ColinXavier
This is just not true. Privilege escalation in Linux / Unix just doesn’t occur in the same fashion as Windows. Unfortunately, Windows was never designed to be networked, or multi-user. When you add this functionality on later, it becomes difficult to secure. I’m amazed that Windows does as well as it does.
December 29th, 2008
@ColinXavier
You’re welcome to try getting through my OpenBSD firewall and running as root.
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