Microsoft is learning from the past
The public perception of Windows Vista is not really positive which is not only Microsoft’s fault but also the fault of hardware and software developers. Microsoft recently changed their Hardware Logo Program Requirements requiring that every hardware developer requesting a Windows Vista logo certification to submit test logs for Windows 7 as well starting with the first Windows 7 beta. If the hardware passes the Vista logo certification it will receive the Logo even if the Windows 7 test will fail.
Microsoft is basically trying to collect as many information as possible at the earliest stage in development to improve the development of Windows 7 and will most likely result in a far better driver compatibility of Windows 7 which would not only benefit the end users but also hardware developers who would see reduced support requests.
The new policy will become active as of June, 1st 2008 but it is highly unlikely that Microsoft will be releasing the first beta version of Windows 7 at that time.
via Long Zheng
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Comment by maskman on 2 June 2008:
No. Its all M$ fault.
They are vain enough to think that people should buy new hardware because of the OS. They should concentrate on service packs that eliminate their poor security designs.
Comment by PPC on 5 June 2008:
Too little too late? The abject failure of Vista must surely leave Microsoft with only one more shot. Lets see where this goes, but it is fairly obvious that they’re learning from their mistakes and trying to make Windows 7 the bomb.
Comment by Kyle Sylvester on 8 June 2008:
i agree with both maskman and PPC M$ seem to think everyone has as much money as them which they were shocked to find out …err no guess they don’t. now rumors are that W7 is going to be a breakdown and reconstruct of windows xp… lets pray to god it is. cause as far as vista went it jumped back to 200o when we had ME i couldn’t even get infected with viruses with that. the only way W7 will hit the market and take off like a rocket is if W7 decides to make 1 frigging version of it no home, home basic, home premiun, buisness blah blah blah. make one make it reasonably priced unlike ultimate and make it useable on the computer i have thats sitting getting dust from 2004 with 512 mb ram 128mb gc pentium 4 proccesor and i mean run SMOOTH no friggin laggy crap
Comment by bill gates on 15 June 2008:
[qoute]i agree with both maskman and PPC M$ seem to think everyone has as much money as them which they were shocked to find out …err no guess they don’t. now rumors are that W7 is going to be a breakdown and reconstruct of windows xp… lets pray to god it is. cause as far as vista went it jumped back to 200o when we had ME i couldn’t even get infected with viruses with that. the only way W7 will hit the market and take off like a rocket is if W7 decides to make 1 frigging version of it no home, home basic, home premiun, buisness blah blah blah. make one make it reasonably priced unlike ultimate and make it useable on the computer i have thats sitting getting dust from 2004 with 512 mb ram 128mb gc pentium 4 proccesor and i mean run SMOOTH no friggin laggy crap[/qoute]
You dont have to run vista, do you?
Comment by Pete on 29 June 2008:
Business Week estimates it took 10,000 employees about five years to ship Vista… Maybe 10 billions dollarsDo you really think Windows 7 is going to be any better.
Comment by SneakyWho_am_i on 15 July 2008:
Ten thousand employees…..
I’m very impressed, such a fine operating system considering the puny and insignificant development team.
How many people have worked on GNU/Linux?? I imagine more than ten thousand. Not some tiny team of developers tucked away writing secret code (security by obscurity) in some dark basement, but a culture of continuous international development where flaws are visible to everyone and (in theory) rapidly fixed)…
I don’t mean to tout Linux here (yeah I’m a user of it, must be a fanboy), I could be referring to any of a number of Operating systems. No, I don’t even mean to put down Microsoft. Sure, Vista was a hopeless disappointment, IE is a crash-prone, bug ridden piece of junk, so on and so forth…
But given that so few people ever see or work on the code, the result that they produce (with which they compete with products from far larger teams of developers) is truly astonishing.
I’m confident that after all the application developers give up the hopeless fight to develop for Microsoft (more and more applications move onto the internet where platform is irrelevant), Microsoft will somehow reinvent itself as… I don’t know… Fast food, or dog grooming or something.
I mean some of the products (notably Internet Explorer) fail to meet our expectations, but I’m sure that they’re developed by experts