Ron Schenone

Windows 7 – It’s Vista People, Plain And Simple

Posted by on Nov 14, 2008 | 12 Comments

For the love of Windows people. Windows 7 is Vista. Microsoft is not going to make major changes. They have already stated that Windows 7 will be Vista, only better. So enough with the pure 100% garbage that Windows 7 is going to be some super child of an operating system. It is not going to happen.

Will Windows 7 be better than Vista? It has to be. Microsoft’s future is riding on making Windows 7 the best it can be. I believe they are sick and tired of the Apple vs Vista commercials and need to make a change. But the change or changes will be modest to say the least.

Windows 7 is going to be fast right out of the box for several reasons. First Microsoft will tweak the process portion of the system to boot quicker. Second they are going to eliminate some stuff that will have to be downloaded by the user if they want the stuff. This will make the OS lighter and faster.

Some of what will be needed to be downloaded is:

• Windows Live Messenger beta: This instant messaging application has phone- and video-calling capabilities too.

• Windows Live Mail beta: In this e-mail program, you can merge multiple e-mail accounts. It also includes a calendar that syncs with a Windows Live Web-based calendar.

• Windows Live Photo Gallery beta: Similar to Google’s Picasa, this photo organizing and basic photo editing program has hooks to Microsoft’s Windows Live Photo Gallery as well as to third-party photo-sharing sites such as Flickr.

• Windows Live Movie Maker beta : This video editing software also automates the creation of movies from your own photos, videos, and music. The application can burn video to CD/DVD, or convert it for viewing on a cell phone or for posting online at Microsoft’s Soapbox video-sharing site.

• Windows Live Writer beta: An application for composing and publishing blog entries to Windows Live Spaces, it also works with other blogging platforms, including Blogger and WordPress.

• Windows Live Family Safety: Through this parental control software, parents can limit the type of content that their children can access online and monitor their surfing activity.

• Windows Live Toolbar: This updated Internet Explorer toolbar enables fast access to Windows Live Web services.

This makes sense since I know there are features such as parental control that I personally would not use. This approach makes sense in order to have a leaner meaner operating system experience from the start.

What do you think? Is Microsoft on the right track?

Comments welcome.

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  • http://lockergnome.com/tomlee/ Tom Lee

    The fact that they offer these Windows Live apps as downloads will keep people like the European Commission from fining them for being anti-competitive. I was also pleased to hear that Microsoft were including AAC, MPEG4 and H.264 support into Windows Media Player/Media Centre. Windows 7 is looking good. Also, it is defiantly shaping up to be what Vista should have been like.

    If Microsoft don’t get Windows 7 right they need to ask themselves serious questions.

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    Hi Tom Lee,
    Good point.

  • George

    I think, that if this operating system fails microsoft has to build a whole new os from the ground up.

    plain and simple.

    i hope microsoft pulls it off.

  • http://wp3.lockergnome.com/nexus/blade/ Ron Schenone

    I think they will.

  • Urban Underbrink

    I just want a computer to respond to my commands. Windows XP on the computer I built really snaps to action, but my Boss has a Dell which also runs Windows XP and takes forever to react when you click on something.

  • Jerry

    First off Bill needs to go back to hiring American workers that made the software doofuses who they are today instead of the India outsourced retards who cannot make software or speak with intelligence equal to a 3rd grader. If Windows 7 is just Vista, then they need to give all of us that got suckered or ORDERED to use this crap they call Vista a discount or give it to us for free. Microsoft needs to do that to make up for this disaster. Vista is, and always will be worse than ME and I never thought that was humanly possible, but it was. Vista was designed by blind and drunk monkeys who figured it was better to help aggravate the country in one fell swoop than it would be to work on making a good software package. This moron has enough money to buy any country and cannot make a decent software package. Pathetic. I hope this works, but that is asking alot…especially since we were all suckered with vista. Looks like we have no choice in 7 just like the morons did with Vista. Gates can rot in hell for all I care.

  • http://twitter.com/rdeycaza Ricardo DeYcaza

    I suppose I cant complain i use a prepaid plan on my iphone, its 15 dollars a month, it multiplies it by 4, so i get 60 dollars worht wich is around 2 cents a minute, and same thing for text (wich i rarely use) and i need to use 15 from those 60 for my unlimited data plan, so all in all i get tons of minutes text, tons of talk time and unlimited data for 15 dollars. I wished more people could enjoy that, i mean you do have to pay a lot for your devices but the savings in the long run are way worht it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_YDH67CJH62UR5AUSRH33TOBXEE Jo

    It’s not 4G fast, but I am happy with my Android smartphone with Virgin Mobile service (provided by Sprint). Pretty much a price leader at a flat $25/month (NO extra fees!) for 300 minutes, unlimited texting and data (Web), with no contract.

  • http://twitter.com/DDeshields Dominique DeShields

    I use Boost for my husband and I. We generally only use the phone for very short calls, texts, mostly to each other. All calls and texts are .10 a minute. My $25 refills run about every 2 1/2 mths. Much cheaper than any monthly plan.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TMUXQMHQW2SH7Z37H5DXSH2W44 mrk rqz

    Hi Ron! Straight Talk is great for Unlimited Everything but I think you’re not maximizing your $30, LoL. Have you heard of PagePlus Cellular? It’s a prepaid MVNO company that uses Verizon’s network. You bring your own cdma phone. For $30 a month you get 1200 talk minutes, 2000 texts, & 100MB data! Just trying to help ya out :-)

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000119946717 Erick Soto

    As much as I loved my Blackberry from Virgin Mobile, my area had real bad reception with Sprint. I would constantly get a “Searching for Network” at my own home. Being that Cricket is also no contract I went running back. But 35 a month on Virgin Mobile with 300 min and everything else unlimited ..WITH A BLACKBERRY is really a steal. If only the reception was better. =

  • Jordan Vasquez

    I’m using Android on a Prepaid Wireless Carrier. And I’m loving it! I use Virgin Mobile, which uses Sprint’s network, and I get coverage in most of my area. And it’s $25 a month for unlimited data/txt/web surfing and 300 minutes! Best deal ever!