Windows Vista, a highly expected OS, for its design, simplicity of user interface, support, security really buzzed off many techies, i must say... The expectations were really a short-lived one, not only to the techies, but even to those home users, who just use their system to play games, hear music and watch movies. The release had bugs wid Drivers and with many of the applications. Applications and Drivers which were designed for XP, failed to take a lump less drive over Vista. If to mention, the serious bug wid which Vista had with nVidia really pissed off many gamers. Too much of security alerts, which though useful, were felt a stupidity among common users. Bound to the walls of Microsoft, users had only used the options which Vista forced them to. Not that Vista was made for Users; Users were made for Vista. But to mention, this had been a claim of Windows right from the beginning. Vista as informed earlier, managed to get the users attention through a simple GUI. Aero, called it Microsoft. Glass schemes of windows and lighting effects made Vista look cool and always better, attracted ppl as such. Later the regression they made is well known.. But later, M$ managed to correct the bugs with the SP1 release of Vista. And now, many applications have support for Vista and driver bugs are corrected and remolded. These times, i don't think one (speaking about the end user) will have to struggle much with Vista, except for the exceptionally asked security questions, which often blows our hats off. But still there are complaints about Vista eating up really a tough space in the hard-disk and the user is unknown for what it happens. I was even stunned to know that after installing Vista and running my PC idle for a few hours, nearly 2 GB missing on my 40 GB hard-disk, whilst the installation took only 7 GB. Later i managed to tweak it up and fixed it, anyways.
The new endeavor:
After Vista, which sold at a rate, nearly two times half than that of XP, M$ is on its next project, which MS calls, Windows 7. MS claims this to be built mostly in accordance with Vista based technicalities, so the user need not to have face weird problems, as they did in Vista. Elegant, Supportive, Clean, Technically fit, Entertainment, Environmental are some keywords to Windows 7. I don think, MS will give much new as in a transition from XP to Vista. But, advancements in what Vista was supposed to have and what it failed to do, will be added up or rectified in Windows 7. But, who knows? MS is purely unpredictable. Official blog says, MS would release Windows 7 in 2010. But the release could be made even sooner, because they don ve to code from the kernel level. The OS can be an assurance for sure, to all its users with Vista of compatibility related issues. Drivers and applications which run successfully in Vista will run in ease even here.
Hope we hear something good from Microsoft corporation about the doors of Windows 7.
For more informations and follow-up's visit : http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/
