Windows 7 Will Ship
There's been a lot of speculation surrounding
Windows 7, the latest operating system to be released by Microsoft. Will it be better than Vista? Will it be as user-friendly as promised? And will we see its launch in 2009? Of the latter, we are confident of a resounding
no.
For one thing, when a trial version was
leaked onto the Internet last month,
reviews were mixed, with people saying it too closely resembles the much-maligned Vista. With Microsoft already not expected to release Windows 7 until late this year or early 2010, these recent reviews could send developers into a tizzy, leaving them nervously waiting for when Microsoft plans to release beta copies of Windows 7 at the
MSDN developers' conference later this month.
Another reason we don't anticipate seeing Windows 7 in 2009 is that even though Vista has its quirks,
users have found work-arounds, and Linux also is stepping up as a
cost-effective alternative to Windows, so there is no real compelling reason to rush the roll-out of Windows 7.
Check out Microsoft's
Windows 7 blog for updates.
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