Microsoft Windows 7

Windows 7 is claimed to be everything that Vista wasn’t. A fast booting, sleek operating system which is as reliable as XP came to be. ] Windows 7 is supposed to have a somewhat modular installation routine so having Home and Pro is plenty. If you look at the reality we have now with Vista, there’s only Home Premium and Business sold in any meaningful numbers. Windows 7 is built on Vista Kernel and would have almost the same requirements of Vista. Windows 7 is Sinofsky’s next big test and perhaps his legacy at Microsoft, Windows 7 is the next OS to come out from Microsoft. It is supposed to replace Vista in a couple of years, according to the rumors anyway.

Vista now needs at least 2GB to run properly. If Windows 7 needed more than 3GB , it wouldn’t make sense to offer a 32-bit version. Microsoft itself has given mixed messages about the follow-up to Vista. Many observers have interpreted the fact that Microsoft has been adamant about application and device-driver compatibility between Vista and Windows 7 as proof that the latter will be a minor upgrade. Microsoft announced that it will distribute a “pre-beta build” of Windows 7 at its Professional Developers Conference October 27. Rumors suggest that the company could release the shipping version of Windows 7 in 2009. Microsoft has also confirmed that the working name of the next release is “Windows 7″ (no real surprise there, as Vista is Windows 6, XP Windows 5.1, etc.). Notably, there is no interim release planned between now and then.

Windows segmentation is the most biggest pile of doggy do in the world. Windows Vista isn’t making much of a dent in the enterprise (which mostly seems to be saying “Windows XP is fine, leave us alone”). I think it’s time to really start looking at what the industry is signaling it wants. Windows 7 will offer us Touch Technology. My hopes was that Microsoft would be able to kick 7 in the butt and offer superior performance over Vista. But if Touch Technology is added on top of Vista, than there is a good possibility performance may be the same.

Microsoft has been working on under the hood changes to the OS, not tweaks to the user interface. So while 7 will reportedly have a few noticable changes, most will be pretty subtle. Microsoft needs to simplify the OS consideribly. Stop giving us useless features and just make something that works and works well. the hardware that Vista should have been running on when it was released. This means that people can’t complain that their system runs it too slowly because almost every system will be able to handle it by then.