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Ballmer: Testers didn't ring Vista warning bells; Could the same
happen with Windows 7?
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| Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has done his best over
| the past year-plus to try to dampen expectations
| around Windows 7. Heâs doing it again this week
| during his pre-launch European tour, telling press,
| analysts and others there that he doesnât expect
| Windows 7 to provide a sudden and miraculous boost to
| the PC market.
|
| But Iâm more intrigued by a related comment Ballmer
| made, as Iâve thought about this very scenario
| myself in recent months. Ballmer pointed to Vista as
| an example that tester feedback may not always be the
| best measure of the success of a new operating system
| release. From an October 7 Bloomberg story:
|
| ââThe test feedback (on Windows 7) has been good,
| but the test feedback on Vista was good,â
| Ballmer, 53, said in an interview last week. âI
| am optimistic, but the proof will be in the
| pudding.ââ
|
| It feels like a long time ago when testers were
| assessing the many Longhorn/Vista builds that
| Microsoft issued both before and after the âresetâ in
| 2004. Before the reset, Microsoft officials heard
| from testers that there were some deep-seated
| problems with its next planned version of Windows. As
| a result, the Windows team went back to the drawing
| board and rejiggered it. Then there were lots more
| builds. And finally, in the fall of 2006, Microsoft
| released Vista to manufacturing.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=4180
Breaking the dependency on proprietary software: A call to nonprofits to
refuse Microsoft Windows 7
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| The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today launched the
| next stage of its "Windows 7 Sins" campaign at
| http://windows7sins.org, making the case against
| Microsoft and proprietary software by writing to 500
| leaders of the most influential nongovernmental
| organizations (NGOs) worldwide, asking them to make the
| switch to freedom-respecting free software, and to help
| foster awareness of the ethical importance of computer
| user freedom.
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http://www.fsf.org/news/windows-7-sins-ngo
Vapourware already!!
Microsoft Developing a 128-bit Windows
http://blog.linuxtoday.com/blog/2009/10/microsoft-is-fi.html
Recent:
Study: Windows 7 doesn't boot faster
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| Although Windows 7 has been praised for loading and
| shutting down faster than prior versions of Windows,
| one software company says that, in many cases, the
| new operating system can take longer to get started
| than Windows Vista.
|
| Iolo Technologies, which sells PC tune-up software,
| said its lab unit found that a brand-new machine
| running Windows 7 takes a minute and 34 seconds to
| become usable, as compared to a minute and six
| seconds for Windows Vista. Iolo notes that it
| measured not the time it takes for the desktop to
| appear â which can be as little as 40 seconds on a
| fresh installation of Windows 7 â but rather the time
| it takes to become fully usable "with CPU cycles no
| longer significantly high and a true idle state
| achieved".
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http://www.builderau.com.au/news/soa/Study-Windows-7-doesn-t-boot-faster/0,339028227,339298949,00.htm?feed=rss
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