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Prediction: Microsoft will leapfrog Vista, release Windows 7 early, and change its OS business
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
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