Windows 7 will be like Windows Vista, but more so, Microsoft Corp.CEO Steve Ballmer said today as he defended the first two years of Vista and claimed its successor will be a major release.
"[Windows 7], it's Windows Vista, a lot better," said Ballmer during a 45-minute question-and-answer session hosted by a pair of Gartner Inc. analysts at the research firm's annual Symposium ITxpo in Orlando, Fla. today. The interview was later posted as a webcast on the Gartner site.
Ballmer was responding to a question from Gartner's Neil MacDonald, who asked how Microsoft would walk the line between doing too much with Windows 7 -- thus, risking the kind of compatibility problems that plagued Vista early in its career -- and too little, which might give customers an excuse to pass on the upgrade.
You know the big problem with Windows (and probably all of microsoft products) is that they tend to build on top of the previous version. Its like your bedroom wall if it had bugs on it and holes in it, then trying to fix it by slathering it with some fresh paint, it doesnt change the fundamental problem.
I was hoping with the plague of issues raised in Vista that the next version would start by stripping it down to its core, throwing out the baggage and rebuilding it lean and mean. But i fear for this version if its just vista with 'new features' and a tweaked user interface.
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Sidekick: The Good News & the Bad News Either way you look at it Microsoft Data Center management did not follow standards or best practices in this failure. In which case it makes me wonder more about the outsourcing of corporate data much less personal data.
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You know the big problem with Windows (and probably all of microsoft products) is that they tend to build on top of the previous version. Its like your bedroom wall if it had bugs on it and holes in it, then trying to fix it by slathering it with some fresh paint, it doesnt change the fundamental problem.I was hoping with the plague of issues raised in Vista that the next version would start by stripping it down to its core, throwing out the baggage and rebuilding it lean and mean. But i fear for this version if its just vista with 'new features' and a tweaked user interface.