Is Microsoft Rushing Windows 7 To Market?

“Microsoft took Vista and took out the programs which were slowing it down. ”

What “programs” did they remove that slowed it down?

I’m running Windows 7 now and I do agree it’s faster than Vista, but I see more features, not less (save for Windows Mail which I never used anyway).

I hope MS lives up to their publicly stated promise of not releasing Win7 till it’s “ready”.

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Does MS truly know what “ready” is?

Of course they’re rushing W7 to market. Vista was an unqualified disaster. Rather than look at the issues intelligently, they follow Marketing’s advice and RUSH the next release. It’s Business in 2009 as usual.

I can’t remember the actual figure but when they first announced the new release date of W7, I was astounded because it was so far ahead of the previously announced release date.

We know what happens when MS *doesn’t* rush an OS to market. No good can come of it when they DO rush.

As for my employer, any new version of Windows is going to require significant retraining of the staff. I figure that if they’re going to require retraining, why not retrain them on something with a proven track record, like linux? You know that it will be stable, which isn’t exactly a guarantee with Windows. It also looks just like Windows, which is more than I can say for Vista.

I’m not speaking hypothetically either. Office 2007 was so different from previous versions that very few would have been able to operate it (and this does not take into consideration the increased bloat and required horsepower to operate). As a result we dumped Office 2007 after its trial and are running a mix of 2000, 2003, and Open Office.

Software mfgrs need to watch out. They might wind up `innovating’ themselves out of large amounts of sales.

Hello,

I have noticed that some software companies tend to use beta test programs to look for actual bugs (coding errors, logic errors, typos in UI and online help, et cetera) only, taking any feedback they receive and incorporating it into the next point release or version of the program.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky

Thanks for all of the comments. Time will tell just how well Windows 7 will be accepted by the masses. I am sure that the current state of the economy will also affect the reception that the new OS will receive in 2009 /2010 no matter how good W7 is.

All The Best, Ron