Linked by David Adams on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 17:23 UTC
Hot on the heels of our previous story outlining the fiasco that Vista's release has been, TechRepublic's Jason Hiner predicts that Microsoft is aware of its blunder and will respond by making a release of Windows 7 ahead of schedule (primarily by overhauling Vista and calling it Windows 7, it seems) in order to encourage its enterprise clients to upgrade directly from XP to Windows 7.
Permalink for comment 311032
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
To read all comments associated with this story, please click here.
Recent Original Stories
Recent Comments
Headlines
Random Comments
Random Stories
Random OS Link
Member since:
2006-03-18
Been running Vista for a year on two machines, one of them an upgrade from XP (a supposed no-no). The upgraded machine suffered for good drivers for awhile, and had an annoying sound issue until an update a few months back, but has been otherwise very usable. The desktop that came with Vista has been rock solid and nothing but utterly reliable. I've even made UAC more strict, by setting it to require a password.
On the corporate desktop I can see the case for waiting for a more mature product, and for software developers to catch up in their next release cycle. This is the same position they took with XP. Heck I work with companies still running 2000 on the desktop.
The two biggest issues for the corporate user are software and drivers. Most drivers are basically there already, but corporate users want to use their their copy of Accounting package X they bought in 1999. Well guess what? They are going to have to upgrade. They'd have to do the same thing for Windows 7.
The reason most software fails to work on Vista is the fact that MS actually did the RIGHT thing for once and removed some of the cruft. It constantly amazes me that the same people who call for a from scratch rewrite of Windows are the same folks who complain about all of the incompatibilities in Vista. You can't have it both ways.
There is not going to be anything magical about Windows 7 that suddenly allows your 10 year old accounting package to print to your 12 year old printer. It will most likely have the same level of compatibility found in Vista - with whatever improvements are made in Vista between now and then.