Re: Prediction: Microsoft will leapfrog Vista, release Windows 7 early, and change its OS business
Re: Prediction: Microsoft will leapfrog Vista, release Windows 7 early, and change its OS business
vista has a history of hype and huge promises
I am glad to see this article saying the same things I have been saying for
years now...
I guess fanboys like frank will shrug it off, and call the article just
another e-rag, or actually start understanding
that I was right all along
"Gary Mount" <gary_mount@telus.net> wrote in message
news:eZVJqFFpIHA.4280@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> Did Vista get this much Hype as Windows 7 now is getting so long before
its
> release date? I can't remember.
>
> "vishhiita prime" <vee@shhhita.ch> wrote in message
> news:480d9a12$1@newsgate.x-privat.org...
> > 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
> >
> >