Windows 7 Pre-Beta “Leak”
// October 27th, 2008 // Emerging Trends
Every couple of years our friends at Microsoft launch a new operating system (or as the folks on the floor at Momentum call it “OS”). Three years ago it was Vista, during the bubble boom it was XP (my personal favourite) before that we had ME (Millenium Edition), 98, 95… but I digress. In fact contrary to the publicly heralded rumour that I’m an Apple fanatic, I’m more at home some days behind the warm fuzzy glow of a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD - Floor term).
Mary Jo Foley of ZdNet published a post early yester-morning regarding the feature set from the upcoming Windows 7 OS. Most of the updates seem to be reminiscent of the “updates” that Vista brought to the table such as UI enhancements, “Device Centers” and of course a better version of “Support Center” now dubbed “Action Center”. If it doesn’t play highlights from last night and/or nothing blows up, you’re going to leave Michael Bay and John Madden quite disappointed.
All kidding aside I’m hoping that Windows 7 will lend a hand to overall greater User Experience than Vista. We don’t need more gadgets, just make it run as fast as it can without putting a bunch of warnings in my way or requiring me to buy a new machine altogether.
Check out the Mary Jo’s full post here: http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=1667
