“After months of speculation, Windows 7 was finally unveiled last month at Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC),” Randall C. Kennedy reports for Reseller News.
“Microsoft’s pitch was quite compelling, and the PDC crowd was practically salivating at the chance to play with Microsoft’s latest and greatest,” Kennedy reports. “But after the stage props came down, and after the projectors finally went cold, attendees were left with a pre-beta copy of something that looked less like a new OS than the repackaging of an old one.”
“The more I dug into Windows 7, the more I saw an OS that looked and felt like a slightly tweaked version of Windows Vista,” Kennedy reports.
“Windows 7 appeared to suck memory like Vista, to consume CPU like Vista, and to have the same consumer focus. How would this product be received by enterprise customers, the vast majority of whom had soundly rejected its predecessor? After all, if Vista wasn’t good enough for big business, then surely a Vista-derived encore would meet with a similarly chilly reception,” Kennedy reports.
“We can now say with some certainty that Windows 7 is in fact just a repackaging of Windows Vista — an “R2″ release, to use Microsoft’s nomenclature on the Windows Server side of the house. Key processes look and work much like they do under Vista, and preliminary benchmark testing shows that Windows 7 performs right on a par with its predecessor. Frankly, Windows 7 is Vista, at least under the hood; if nothing else, this should translate into excellent backward compatibility with Vista-certified applications and drivers,” Kennedy reports.
“Except that it might not. The M3 build of Windows 7 breaks all sorts of things that, frankly, it shouldn’t be breaking. Worse still, the suspected source of a major compatibility bump — the neutered UAC prompts — is in fact architectural in nature, one of the few truly new features of Windows 7’s secure computing stack,” Kennedy reports.
“Windows 7 looks and behaves almost exactly like Windows Vista. It performs almost exactly like Vista. And it breaks all sorts of things that used to work just fine under Vista. In other words, Microsoft’s follow-up to its most unpopular OS release since Windows Me threatens to deliver zero measurable performance benefits while introducing new and potentially crippling compatibility issues,” Kennedy reports.
The full article, which is subtitled “The larger question is what all those Vista refuseniks will do when their hopes for Windows 7 are crushed,” and which we highly recommend, is here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “James W.” for the heads up.]
Microsoft seems to be so enamored with its “Mojave” ruse that it’s about to try it for real on its remaining sheep.
I don’t use windows so I don’t care!
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Same with osx leopard and snow leopard… Osx blows..
Microsoft would have been better off starting with the XP code base and throwing away Vista (which is based on Windows Server 2003) as a dead end. Windows users apparently want XP, so give them a “chrome-plated” new service pack of XP.
yes, a lot of us have used Vista, and have very likely been around Windows in general a helluva lot longer than you, whipper snapper. My company, after a year of Vista related pain and suffering, is finally scrapping Windows altogether. Come January, our company will be running using our favorite Unix based OS on our favorite machines (no, not Ubuntu). I’ve been pushing for this for years-Vista was the straw that broke the camel’s back. Windows 7 isn’t even on the radar. Good times, folks, good times.
MSN says sheep to describe Windows users, but aren’t Mac users just as much sheep for using and following the Mac, and Apple?
Maybe. But very intelligent sheep.
While I think they did start with Windows 2003 as the base to restart the Vista build, I think it is not very related to Windows 2003. Windows XP 64-bit has the same base as Windows 2003 64-bit. They even share the same SP2. And Windows XP 64-bit is pretty solid (for a Microsoft OS). Actually, Windows 2003 ain’t too bad either. I don’t know why they bolted so much crap into Vista.
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@ JAYGEE
No… because most Mac users have used Windows (and many use Window at work). Mac users have therefore made a conscience choice to use Mac OS X instead of Windows. Most Windows users have never used a Mac. They just keep using Windows without considering alternatives. That sort of describes “sheep.”
But, but . . . this is suppose to be new.
I saw Bill Gates wiggle his but!
I saw it, I did.
Buy Citrix shares. When Windows PCs in frustrated businesses are finally replaced by thin clients they are going to gain a huge sales boost.
Ummm… not trying to be a fanboy or anything, but isn’t this still in the development stages and not set to come out for 2 years anyways. Also does a mac news site really have an impartial view of this topic enough to be able to write about it? I’m just saying, I wouldn’t expect microsoft or linux to write to favorably about a mac so why is this site writing about windows?
Of the thousands of comments I have read concerning Vista, and now Windows 7, none of them cuts to the bone. In my opinion, an OS is more like beer than an automobile. If your favorite beer suddenly tastes different and is harder to get open, you are frustrated and want your old beer back. Now, the vendor could bring back your old beer in the old can and probably charge you even more and you would pay it. A coup! Or the vendor could spend millions advertising against itself to convince you to buy the new and improved beer that you do not want and restrict or completely block your access to the old beer you really want.
If the XP license was transferred to me, I would be a multi-billionaire in a couple of years.
Just my opinion.
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