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Fuzzy Logic Windows 7: Vista-like hell or an OS heaven?
Fuzzy Logic Windows 7: Vista-like hell or an OS heaven? | Windows 7: Vista-like hell or an OS heaven? |
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| by Alex Zaharov-Reutt | |
| Monday, 18 August 2008 | |
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Badly stung by Vista’s woeful reception, Microsoft is trying to do a complete reversal on how it plans to get Windows 7 out the door, on time, with full software and hardware compatibility on day one, and has started the countdown to 7 by introducing the “Engineering Windows 7” blog, or E7 for short. Primarily run by Microsoft’s former Office supremo Steven Sinofsky, now one of the major Windows chiefs, and John DeVaan, with both listed as “senior engineering managers for the Windows 7 product”, both men will regularly post updates to the blog, aided by other members of the engineering team. Part of the achievement of delivering on the Windows 7 promise will be the fact that Windows 7 will effectively be a massively upgraded version of the current Windows Vista, benefitting from all the work done to improve Vista thus far, and the work to create the well regarded Windows Server 2008 which itself is built on Vista’s foundation. Server 2008 is so well regarded that plenty of developers and network admin types are running Window Server 2008 in “desktop mode” as kind of a super Vista system, instead of Vista itself. The first post at the E7 blog is designed to introduce the blog to the world, to make lots of promises, to explain that Windows 7 will be explored in greater technical detail at the Professional Developers Conference (PDF) on October 27, and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) the following week, both in the US. The blog will also disclose features to the public “over the next 2+ months with regular posts about the behind the scenes development of the release and continue through the release of the product.” Both DeVaan and Sinofsky acknowledge that there are “tons of questions about the specifics of the project and strong desire to know what’s in store for the next major release of Windows”, but can’t disclose them all just yet. That said, they advise: “Believe us, we are just as excited to start talking about the release” and assure Windows users that the Vista team has been “hard at work creating the next Windows product” over the past 18 months. So, what else does Microsoft have in store for Windows 7, what features do we already know about, and who is the blog dedicated to? Please read on to page 2! |
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