Steve Ballmer is right. Windows 7 is Windows Vista, just better. And this is a acceptable thing.
Yeah, I know. It's heresy. Everyone hates Vista, and who would anytime wish the next adaptation to be little added than a sequel—and, potentially, a bad one at that. When I railed adjoin Microsoft for not accomplishing a complete overhaul, I brewed up a complete affinity about how Windows is like the Star Trek movies. It went something like this:
Think of all the versions of Windows like the Star Trek movies, about good, but with casual missteps like Star Trek III or, in the case of windows, Windows Me. For the a lot of allotment we attending advanced to anniversary new cine or OS update, but over time, even the acceptable movies (and releases) aren't that good. Assuredly the alternation needs a reboot: a new cast, a beginning director, and a new adventure line. And that's what Windows needs, a reboot. Not addition refresh, or The Even Nuttier Professor 4?, but a abounding restart.
Sounds wonderful, but it's aswell ridiculous. Microsoft can no added reboot Windows than you can change the engine on a affective car. Windows is, in all its assorted flavors, in billions of PCs about the world. Even the "failed" Vista is on 180 actor desktops. A reboot, a abounding auctioning of the cipher (dare I say kernel), and complete check of the interface could aftereffect in chaos.
Obviously, no one would run out and buy the Windows Reboot, but as with all antecedent and accepted versions of Windows, it would artlessly access on new PCs. Look, adulation or abhorrence Vista, it maintains a lot of of the accretion metaphors we've developed to adulation from Windows 95 to present. I can't brainstorm a individual user who would balmy to a user acquaintance that debris aggregate they apperceive and adulation or abhorrence about Windows. Plus, ripping out the absolute subsystem could beggarly the affinity issues that existed with Vista on barrage would be abstract 100 fold.
But Microsoft is not traveling to do that. It abandoned the admonition of a dozens of pundits and is now arena out a Software that, in the end, could accomplish the aggregation attending like a bandage of geniuses.
It started with the business campaign: Even Microsoft admiral accept The Mojave Experiment fabricated a lot of humans in the blogosphere absolutely angry. Affair is, Microsoft doesn't affliction about the blogosphere. It cares about its customer. Mojave respondents were added like archetypal Windows barter than some tech beatnik blogger. Microsoft advisers are aswell admiring with the 'I'm a PC' campaign—many of the presenters at the Windows 7 Reviewer's branch alien themselves by saying, "I'm a PC."
Recently, I've apparent blog posts and letters from some Windows Vista barter who like the OS and admiration what all the fuss is about. Obviously, they accept Vista SP1. Some association at Microsoft anticipate that the absolution of SP2 will complete Vista's awakening and that it will become an operating arrangement humans like and want. It happened with Windows 98 and XP and it could appear with Vista.
If that's the case, again Windows 7 acutely can't be awfully altered from Vista. Absolutely not if, by the time Windows 7 arrives, Vista is the angel of millions of users.
This is not to say that Windows 7 is a carbon archetype of Vista. With its simplified taskbar and gesture-based interface, it's acutely not. Microsoft acutely spent a lot of time award the specific affliction credibility not just in Vista but in XP, as well. This has led to acute solutions like the Device Stage, which assuredly addresses the absolute abstract of beat on a printer figure alone to end up in a account of book jobs instead of the printer backdrop page. Deeper changes like abbreviation the bulk of anamnesis anniversary Window uses could actual able-bodied accept been implemented in Windows XP.
Perhaps the aberration amid Windows 7 and antecedent updates is Microsoft is assuredly getting cellophane about its plans. Instead of able "Wow" (big mistake), Microsoft and Ballmer are advancing appropriate out and adage that this OS will be a lot like the endure one, but in the best and a lot of important ways. Windows 7 will plan with aggregate Windows Vista did—and now that Vista works able-bodied with a lot of absolute accouterments and software, this is abnormally acceptable news. It's not some abortion that Microsoft didn't accord into the blog answer alcove and accomplish added abolitionist changes: It's a architecture win for Microsoft and its customers.
I'm sure, by the way, that that answer alcove is appropriate now gearing up to bang a aperture appropriate through my mid-section.
If I had to call a lot of of the changes Microsoft fabricated to Windows in adaptation 7, I'd say they were thoughtful. They're smart, intuitive, sometimes obvious, and a lot of are absolutely welcome. Microsoft no best needs to reinvent the wheel. Maybe Windows Vista is the operating system, in its still somewhat asperous form, we charge it to be. If that's the case, Microsoft goes from getting the miner, announcement out bedrock to accompany alternating anniversary alternating new operating system, to the sculptor chiseling, polishing, and even sometimes mortaring to accomplish Windows just work.
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