When Microsoft announced Windows Vista everyone had high expectations for that Microsoft operating system and it’s pretty safe to say that Windows Vista could not live up to those expectations in many areas. Expectations for Windows 7 are therefor directly related to those that Windows Vista was not able to deliver.

Windows Vista was not a failure but it had the problem that Microsoft was creating expectations that Windows Vista could not match. A lot of Vista users are perfectly happy with their system but there is probably an equally large number of users who do not like it and stick with Windows XP instead.

There are several key areas where Windows 7 has to make an improvement over Windows Vista. It’s not only a performance issue although that one is definitely pressing. Windows Vista has hardware requirements - and I’m not talking about the suggested hardware but hardware where it runs solid on - that caused disappointment in many users who updated from Windows XP to Windows Vista with their old computers.

Users who bought a new PC with Windows Vista did not encounter that many performance issues because their PCs were usually equipped with better hardware.

Windows 7 Expectations:

• Resource Friendly / Performance: Windows 7 should not continue the trend of Windows Vista and put computer hardware of the last year to the limit. Performance issues are the biggest complaint of Windows Vista users.
• Edition Chaos: Vista Basic, Vista Home Premium, Vista Business, Vista Enterprise, Vista OEM.. I’m not sure why Microsoft decided to fork out that many Vista editions for the market but I can definitely say that this leads to confusion by the consumer. Four Editions are definitely enough: Windows 7 OEM, Windows 7 Home, Windows 7 Business and Windows 7 Enterprise
• Listen to the customers: Many users have the feeling that Microsoft is not listening to them.
• Modularity: Windows “forces” several features and functions on the user even if he does not want or need them. Modularity would be helpful where the user could turn those features on and off without interfering with system stability and performance.
• Layout: Giving the user more choice in how he places the elements on his screen. For the Taskbar it could mean: Resizable Taskbar, moving the Start button from left to right or top to bottom, removing and adding elements to the taskbar, configurable clock output

Do you have expectations ? If so let me know about them so that we can collect a nice list.

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