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
vishhiita prime;690615 Wrote:
> Strip out or minimize some of Windows Vista's clunkiest features -
> especially User Account Control
To what end? So the bashers can start complaining about how much more
secure Vista is over Windows 7?
vishhiita prime;690615 Wrote:
> Simplify the interface back to something closer to Windows XP
This falls in line with the first quote. By rolling the UI back to
something closer to XP, all that will happen is that people will
complain too much about how dumb it is and how much better the Vista UI
is.
vishhiita prime;690615 Wrote:
> Reduce backward compatibility in order to streamline the code base
So people can complain even more about how nothing works? If anything,
backward compatibility will be improved, not reduced.
vishhiita prime;690615 Wrote:
> Work much harder with vendors to ensure driver and software
> compatibility with new hardware and applications
The only reason why Vista initially had driver related problems is
because Microsoft moved to a new user-mode model for drivers to make the
system more secure, and many hardware manufacturers had issues with the
resulting learning curve. Windows 7 will use the same user-mode driver
model as Vista, so manufacturers will not have as hard a time
transitioning from Vista to Windows 7 as they did from XP to Vista.
vishhiita prime;690615 Wrote:
> 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)
A cost reduction will always be welcome. But remember the largest
factor here - the easier it is to crack/patch/pirate Windows, the more
expensive it will be for end users who ultimately end up paying.
vishhiita prime;690615 Wrote:
> 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.
There is nothing to learn from the long delay of Vista, except that the
additional time spent can be seen in the stability, reliability and
performance of the final release. Personally, I'd prefer to see another
4-5 year relase time-frame for Windows 7, which will give the coders at
Microsoft more time to streamline the product as well as Vista was.
vishhiita prime;690615 Wrote:
> Financially, most IT departments are already on a subscription plan. Now
> look for Microsoft to move consumers in this direction.
Microsoft will maintain the status quo here, as the largest part of the
market is not yet ready to adopt a subscription based model. This
particular trend is still open for debate, though...
vishhiita prime;690615 Wrote:
> Release Windows 7 by the end of 2009 and market it as the simplest and
> easiest Windows ever
Isn't that what was said about XP? And about Windows 2000 before it? an
about Windows ME/98/95 before that?
Each successive release of Windows (or any other OS) is always "the
simplest and easiest ever"!
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