As we all know some people like Windows Vista, some don’t. Vista at its launch had many major problems, such as targeting higher system requirements that some people couldn’t afford, lack of compatibility with several key pre-vista software and permission restriction that hardly did its job at all. All these reasons and more contributed to Vista’s temporary “downfall”. Later Service Pack 1 was released (February 4th) which solved much bug but still left some areas of Vista undesirable.
This is why some of us still hangs with XP. It is more enjoyable and workable than Vista and have less issues. It is also faster due to low system requirements and an architecture that everyone is familiar with. BUT the end of XP was due soon, and here it is. As of today June 30 Windows XP will not be pre-loaded on sold machines and will not be sold in retail stores. Windows XP Professional thought will be given with the purchase of Vista Business or Vista Ultimate as part of the “Downgrade Rights”. XP will continue to be updated until April 2014. Lets hope that Microsoft will see to it that Vista gets as stable as XP.
The next installment of the popular OS will be Windows 7. Microsoft announced that it will be “modular”. Let me explain: you buy the core of the OS, then you buy other pieces that adds functions to your computer. If I want to make audio edition, I will buy the core AND the audio suite of Windows. Due to this we expect the prices to be lower because you won’t have to buy modules that are not useful for you. Bill Gates said that Windows 7 will also focus on performance improvement
“We’re hard at work, I would say, on the next version, which we call Windows 7. I’m very excited about the work being done there. The ability to be lower power, take less memory, be more efficient, and have lots more connections up to the mobile phone, so those scenarios connect up well to make it a great platform for the best gaming that can be done, to connect up to the thing being done out on the Internet, so that, for example, if you have two personal computers, that your files automatically are synchronized between them, and so you don’t have a lot of work to move that data back and forth.”
That said, we can expect promises from Microsoft right away. “Windows 7 will be in all points more productive than Vista” – “The change from Vista to 7 will not be drastic” – ” No bugs will be present”. And so on. Only Jesus can make those kind of promises and he’s not working for Microsoft at the moment.
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