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Why Windows 7 won't save Microsoft
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- IT TOPICS:Operating Systems, Software, Windows & Microsoft
Microsoft is most likely banking on being saved by Windows 7, after its stumble with Vista. But there are early indications that Windows 7 won't be the savior that Microsoft has been hoping for.
Plenty of consumers and enterprises have stayed away from Vista, and there's a possibility that many are planning to skip Vista, and instead jump to Windows 7. But it's not at all clear that Windows 7 will be the significant improvement that they're hoping for.
Let's start with the interface. Although it's still early in the development cycle, all screenshots that I've seen, including those I've shown about in my blog, look nearly identical to Vista. So people who simply don't like Vista's look and feel most likely won't be pleased.
Next up, what some people perceive as system bloat. There's no doubt that installed on the same hardware, Vista is slower than XP. In a recent speech at a Microsoft MVP event, Steve Ballmer admitted:
Vista is bigger than XP. It's going to stay bigger than XP. We have to make sure it doesn't get bigger still.
That goes for Windows 7 as well. People looking for a minimal kernel, with services plugged in on an as-needed basis, will most likely be disappointed.
Given that Microsoft has said that it will never again let five years go between operating system releases, it's going to move quickly on Windows 7, and most likely release it at the end of 2009, or early in 2010. So don't expect any major changes to the plumbing, or overall architecture.
In fact, there's a reasonable chance that Windows 7 will be something akin to XP's SP1, which was a fairly significant upgrade, but not an overhaul of the operating system.
The upshot? We may have to wait for Windows 8 to see a real overhaul of Windows.
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