Linked by David Adams on Wed 12th Nov 2008 17:14 UTC, submitted by estherschindler
Industry analysts differ on the importance of shipping Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system before the 2009 holidays, but agree that the release of the OS needs to be swift and smooth to avoid the sins of Vista's past.
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2006-07-25
As ive said before Vista is now ok with SP1 + patches. It does some things well, but mostly it runs the same as Windows XP.
However one thing that will never change is the reputation. SP2 could bring the memory usage of Vista to 50MB and make your computer run 1000x quicker however it's reputation will always let it down. I will agree that RTM vista wasn't much of a release.
So your in Microsoft's shoes. You now have a pretty solid OS however it's got a bad rep. You have Mac's gaining market share and mind share, with rave reviews and another release soon. You also have Linux which is evolving incredibly well, it's completely free of charge and is getting more and more public attention with every minute. What you do is to distance yourself from the naming scheme so that your next product doesn't get associated (i.e. appear to start from scratch in a manner of speaking) so you call it windows 7.
You clean up the UI, listen to your client base (the E7 blog has done really well to open up a channel between MS engineers and the general public) and think carefully about what your clients want and not what you want.
However you still have a problem, Vista is still out there with not much chance of ever getting away from it's rep, so you don't get over ambitious and release your next product as soon as possible, without of course releasing a buggy or beta product as RTM.
I think with Steve Sinofsky at the helm Microsoft have a really good chance of doing the above.
( Slighty Off topic)
The one other thing i would change is the Advertising, ive seen a lot of those im a PC adverts and i think they are pretty stupid as to me a PC is something that can run Windows, Linux, Solaris, Haku etc.. Plus the tagline of bringing down the walls is pretty stupid, if you have no walls then you don't need windows. In your adverts sell your product, don't take cheap shots at competitors just say whats great about your product)