Windows 7

While Microsoft has only just begun fighting the perception problems surrounding Windows Vista, the company is already thinking and planning way beyond its latest operating system. We all know that Windows 7 will build on top of the foundations laid by Vista, and that it will include a fancy multitouch framework (and a mysterious new taskbar). According to Microsoft, Windows 7 is still on track for January 2010, and in a memo to his employees, CEO Steve Ballmer outlined some interesting new approaches the company might try with Windows 7 - including being just a little more like Apple. Continue reading »

The Windows 7 craze is barely over, and yet the internet is already buzzing with the next big thing from Microsoft: a project called Midori. The SD Times claims to have seen internal Microsoft documents detailing what Midori actually is, and they say it’s the clean-break from Windows many of us have been waiting for. The SD Times article is heavy on the details, and quite technical, but luckily Ars Technica provides a more accessible summary of what Microsoft has in store for Midori. Continue reading »

The latest topic of discussion among Microsoft lovers (and haters) is an Australian site’s article proposing 20 new features to be introduced when Windows 7 replaces Vista.While the value of these ideas is pretty much down to personal taste, the real question is whether they’ll actually be adopted by Microsoft. Here’s my take on the gadgetzone list: Continue reading »

German computer magazine Chip reviewed Build 5619 of Windows 7. The article which is available online contains an extensive set of screenshots of the new operating system and a short German article detailing some of the changes of the new Microsoft operating system.

Their first impression was that the interface and design looked pretty much like Windows Vista and that most new functions were not visible at first glance. The Bootscreen of Windows 7 has changed compared to Windows Vista, it’s a full screen boot screen with a lightning animation. Continue reading »

As far as Microsoft is concerned, Windows 7 is just the beginning. Not a new beginning for Windows, mind you, but the debut of a revolution in human - computer interaction. At Tech Ed 2008, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates indicated that he is betting big on natural user interfaces. “Now one of the big changes coming that I think is most underestimated is the change in interaction,” he stated. Not by coincidence, the Redmond company’s first public demonstration of Windows 7 involved almost exclusively the new touch computing technology built into the operating system. Continue reading »

Undoubtedly, the recent events focused on the next iteration of the Windows platform qualify these past days as the week of Windows 7. Make no mistake about it, even though the Redmond company started communicating Windows 7, it failed to diverge in any way from its official policy of keeping the world in the dark when it comes down to the successor of Windows Vista. Arguments that the communication strategy imposed by Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group is building frustration among both consumers and partners, have fallen on deaf ears. The Redmond giant did the exact opposite with Windows Vista, and the resulting experience did not justify the transparent tactics of Jim Allchin, (Former) Co-President, Platforms & Services Division. “Former” since his no. 1 software pet, Vista, hit the shelves on January 30, 2008. Continue reading »

Statistics for the operating system market come in different flavors and from a variety of sources but they all have one thing in common: indicating that Windows is losing ground to Mac OS X and Linux. As far as Microsoft is concerned, it reached the apex of the operating system market with the launch of Service Pack 2 for Windows XP back in 2004. Since then, it has been all down hill for the Redmond giant. Sure, the slope is by no means steep enough for a hard Windows fall, just sufficiently inclined through the erosion produced by Mac OS X and Linux that the ground is slipping from under Microsoft’s proprietary platform, slowly but surely… Continue reading »

You may be still using a version Windows or you swap to another OS because of hating something on Windows. Or there are reasons why you use it, love it. For example i hate the “Search System” of Windows. It takes half of my life to find something on my PC. But i am still using Windows because it is easy to use.

Let us know what you love or hate on Windows.