A Week of Windows 7 – Microsoft’s Latests Operating System
Posted on 27. Oct, 2009 by Simon Banks in Feature, Microsoft
A Look Inside Windows 7
Yes, the buying went smoothly, however the upgraded installations for student versions from 32-bits to 64-bits were not as smooth. “A small number of customers who purchased the Windows 7 upgrade through the Student Offer have reported challenges in completing the download and/or installation of the product.” a Microsoft spokesperson told InternetNews.com in an email.
Not all is gloom and doom with this version of Windows. PCWorld.com writes in an article: Making a Case for Windows 7 Migration – that a major corporation in India is thrilled with the new operating system. Murali Krishna, VP and head CCD, Infosys Technologies is testing Windows 7 on 200 machines before upgrading their entire company. So far, the results are outstanding – “users aren’t complaining, especially, he says, with the brisk start up and shutdown times.” Krishna says.
Listening to the Customers
By all reports, it sounds like Microsoft has finally started listening to its customers complaints over the years. You know the ones – operating system is so overloaded with stuff that it is slow and cumbersome, too much flash and not enough meat, constant security issues while the fun media stuff plays and looks good. It is time that Microsoft started taking the heart of the operating system seriously and provided a clean, solid platform in which customers can perform and add things when they want to not because it is forced upon them. Getting back to the basics – letting the customer decide which features they want!
Isn’t that what made Google search engine so popular? When everyone was building out flash and pop search engines in the beginning – Google came out with a blank screen – and a search bar – that was it. And they have kept the same look for over 10 years.
A positive review by PCMag.com has put the new Windows 7 operating system in this light:
“Despite some pundits claiming that Windows 7 is no more than a Vista service pack, there’s a lot more to it than that. Microsoft has certainly addressed many of the complaints surrounding Vista, such as the lack of backward compatibility, the lengthy start-up and install times, the broad disk and memory footprint, and the inability to remove IE. But the company has also added a number of new interface helpers that will make the new OS more pleasurable and efficient to use. Figure in improved performance and networking, a smaller disk and memory footprint, and slick handling of devices, and it’s hard to call this anything other than a full-fledged new OS.” — PCMag.com Microsoft Windows 7
It seems that Microsoft has finally hit on a winner. The new operating system is more powerful and robust while using less resources – it is scalable and has better backwards capabilities; although we are warned to go slow with the backward XP capabilities as some bugs are still being worked out. Security features and cloud computing network capabilities are much more corporate user friendly.
Overall – it looks like Windows 7 will be a much better operating system than its predecessors. We will be looking forward to more reports as only time will truly tell.
