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Fuzzy Logic Will Windows 7 be heaven, or Vista’s twisted sister? Answer in 2010
Fuzzy Logic Will Windows 7 be heaven, or Vista’s twisted sister? Answer in 2010 | Will Windows 7 be heaven, or Vista’s twisted sister? Answer in 2010 |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 17 March 2008 | |
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Page 2 of 2 For all the talk of Windows 7, the vast majority of Windows Vista users are still yet to receive official notification that Vista SP1 is ready to download to their computers. SP1 was delayed because of driver issues that a series of updates was supposed to rectify – Vista users are about to find out if Microsoft were successful in squashing those SP1 bugs. Even Windows XP SP3 still hasn't arrived, although it too is supposedly nearly complete, with the current RC2 of XP3 said to be 'the one' which will soon be changed to RTM status. Windows 7 is supposed to be sporting a new ‘MinWin’ core, or a very small kernel, that will see Windows 7 actually being re-architected somewhat, rather than being a simple update of what has already gone before. Given Vista’s poor performance, a new architecture could help to make Windows perform much faster on whatever hardware will be standard in 2010, although advances Microsoft has made with Windows Server 2008 has already seen some users converting it into a ‘workstation’ OS that some claim runs much faster than Vista. So, we’ve still a long wait until Windows 7, by which time we will have likely seen Mac OS X 10.6 and maybe even 10.7 come and go, a couple of new versions of the ever-improving Ubuntu, many new iPhone firmware updates (we might even be up to iPhone 3.0 by then) and plenty of XP users still happily beavering away on XP SP3. Windows 7 – you had better be heaven, and on time, because for many, Windows Vista was - and for some, still is - hell. Our only advice for Microsoft (beyond getting it right this time) is to speed up your development cycle, and get Windows 7 out by no later than Q3, 2009, to take advantage of the year's biggest computer sales season, rather than wasting time with inaccurate stickers and trying to get people excited about new computers in January or February. But whatever you do, don't make us all wait until Q3, or even Q4 2010, which could then perhaps see you slip into 2011 - and back to your old delay-prone ways! Given the way Apple regularly udpates their operating system usually every 18 months with genuine improvements each time, even 3 years (in an era when online technologies are updated constantly) seems almost a bit too long.
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