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After the disappointment of Vista, Microsoft is going to
great pains to make sure that Windows 7 is going to be, as Steve
Ballmer candidly said on stage, the operating system that Vista should
have been.
A good start has been the generally positive
response to the beta release, which unlike Vista is able to run with
acceptable performance on low powered sub-notebooks like the Eee PC and
Acer Aspire One.
"As is evident from this sample of changes, we’ve been very busy
improving Windows 7 based upon what our customers are telling us in
many forums," says the blog author, Microsoft Engineer Chaitanya Sareen.
As far as user responses to the blog is concerned, mixed among the
generally positive comments were a few grumbles, though nothing too
serious.
One poster commented that the start menu of XP is better and easier to
use. Although this was quickly refuted by a later poster, it is a
comment that has been aired more than once and highlights an issue that
Microsoft has faced since the release of Vista.
After 8 years, there is still incredible user loyalty to Windows XP,
which is undoubtedly the most successful operating system Microsoft has
released.
Following the dismal failure of Vista, Microsoft is going to have to do
a hell of sell job to convince ordinary users that in Windows 7, it has
finally come up with something better to justify the higher price that
consumers and businesses will inevitably have to pay.
David Bass
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