Five Vista perception problems Windows 7 must overcome
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversWide Angle Zoom You can just feel Apple getting ready with a new slate of "I'm a Mac" ads featuring Windows 7. They'll have to roll off Microsoft like Teflon.
Poor Windows 7. Months before its official launch, it's already fighting to live down the reputation of its older siblings. It's bad enough it has to fight perceptions of insecurity (I'm looking at you, XP) and bloated incompatibility (Vista, anyone?). But like the poor kid entering a high school after his older brothers have spent years being serially suspended for misbehaviour and general hooliganism, Windows 7 has an uphill battle ahead of it. Whether the perceptions are earned or not is irrelevant. Undoing them is a monumental process either way, and it all rests on the shoulders of a kid whose only mistake seems to lie in carrying the family name.
Carmi Levy: Wide Angle Zoom (200 px)But undo these perceptions it must. Windows 7 promises to be Microsoft's most crucial launch ever because the company's very future has never been in as much question as it is now. Its two cash cow franchises, Windows and Office, are mooing a little less deeply these days thanks to a seismic shift away from the traditional PC model. While Vista's problems are more perception than anything else, there's no escaping the cruel reality that the age of Windows-everywhere-by-default is over. As conventional desktop and laptop PCs give way to all sorts of new form factors running all sorts of new operating systems and connecting to the outside world in all sorts of unconventional ways, Microsoft can't afford another lukewarm Windows launch.
So far, at least, Windows 7 looks like Microsoft's best bet yet to lay to rest long-held perceptions that its OS offerings are bloated malware magnets that needlessly clutter end-users' lives. Before Microsoft declares ultimate victory, however, it needs Windows 7 to overcome five key perception challenges:
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Comments(8)
windows 7 still has that horrible windows vista explorer,the non user specified prefetch
caching of apps, vista look n feel, horrid classic ui interface.
how in the world is the explorer "horribly"? it's intuitive and easy to use. it far
exceeds both linux and mac in terms of usability and functionality.
windows 7
looks a feels great. its smooth and not as clunky as vista or xp. it feels somewhat
"natural" to use
agreed! only an apple fantard would call windows explorer horrible - it earns a lot of
praise from most rational users. prefetch is much better handled now, and soon speeds up
program launches. and the look and feel of windows 7 has won massive acclaim.
smart guy and ppp333 good to know that you guys can read an understand.at present am
using 7 and imagine i sacrificed running my games on xp just to use 7.it boots quicker its
runs so light..pictures look more crisp,more themes.changing backgrounds,i can firmly say
they did improve on it.and it doesn't use much ram and cpu usage to run all of that...and
i am using it on an old dual core..i can't wait to build that amd phenom 2 940 rig and
run it on that.
i agree, i hated vista explorer, would always change it to the old version of explorer.
the new windows7 explorer grows on you, and it's far more customizable.
on the
otherhand i hate how windows wants to own your network, given it's good for my dad, but i
want windows to relenquish control when i want it.
we should call him mactard, since we are wintards!!
but i must agree explorer is way
easier to use, since i tried mac and its complicated!
the desktop explorer is well crafted for low end users.
for high-end users, like the
ones using server 2008, the explorer is just shit because its the same as the low-end
users one and it s*cks hard.
lunix has the same problem, all the desktops now offer
playschool file managers and guys who are not admins but high-end users just flame the
lack of responsiveness, flexibilty and fonctionnality.
on mac i've saw a bit of it
and it is also a ****ing playschool file manager in standard.
are you guys talking about the autohide feature of the windows bar?
vista's
explorer is smarter then xp and lightyears ahead in it's usablility. the built in search
functions and the way the directories are setup make it much easier to use then xp. it
seems like 7 just went ahead and kept 90% of all the changes to vista's xplorer and ran
with it.
as for you idiot mac users, show me a good file structure in the mac
'system' folder....trying to find things in their 'library' and 'app' folders is a
joke. everything is throw about in random folders making it nearly impossible to gut
things out when you are having a constant crashing app. (osx anyone?!?! rainbow circle of
death?) osx is for idiots who can't logically use a system.
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By Spaccie on 29.05.2009 - 00:05