Did Vista get this much Hype as Windows 7 now is getting so long before its
release date? I can't remember.
"vishhiita prime" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/hiner/?p=664
>
> I guess either these guys come in the vista newsgroups and steal SOME of
> my
> predictions.. or just have the common sense the vista fanboys lack!
>
> Article: (its long so I include only a portion of it here, to read the
> rest
> click on the above link)
>
> Prediction: Microsoft will leapfrog Vista, release Windows 7 early, and
> change its OS business
>
> Microsoft is nothing if not responsive to its customers. In fact, it's
> hyper-responsive. That's why we've ended up with feature-bloat in both
> Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office as the company has tried to please
> everyone by including everything-but-the-kitchen-sink in its software.
> And that's why Microsoft will ultimately try to quell the embarrassing
> Windows Vista debacle by making a bold move with Windows 7 to win back
> customer loyalty and generate positive spin for its most important
> product.
> What will happen next?
> My prognosis is that Microsoft will use smoke and mirrors to conjure up an
> early release of Windows 7, the next edition of the world's most
> widely-used
> operating system. Then they will quietly and unofficially allow IT
> departments to migrate straight from Windows XP to Windows 7.
> Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates has already alluded to this and IT
> departments
> have certainly welcomed that idea, since most of them have found very few
> reasons to migrate to Vista - although my colleague John Sheesley recently
> argued the devil's advocate position for IT departments to adopt Vista.
> To be clear, I am not predicting that Microsoft will do a
> quick-and-massive
> overhaul of Windows Vista in the next 12 months. Instead, I think we'll
> see
> Microsoft do the following:
>
> Strip out or minimize some of Windows Vista's clunkiest features -
> especially User Account Control
>
> Simplify the interface back to something closer to Windows XP
>
> Reduce backward compatibility in order to streamline the code base
>
> Work much harder with vendors to ensure driver and software compatibility
> with new hardware and applications
>
> Reduce the cost of Windows in retail boxes in order to generate goodwill
> and
> undercut Mac OS X (meanwhile, this will have little effect on the price of
> enterprise licensing, which is already much cheaper than retail)
>
> Learn from the long delay of Windows Vista and move to an incremental
> release model with a subscription and at least one major update per year.
> Financially,
> most IT departments are already on a subscription plan. Now look for
> Microsoft to move consumers in this direction.
>
> Release Windows 7 by the end of 2009 and market it as the simplest and
> easiest Windows ever
>
>
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