Windows 7
Microsoft is planning to release Windows 7 RC1 to its Technet and MSDN subscribers sometime next week. If there are no major glitchs, this Release Candidate could very easily “Go Gold” and be released to OEMs as early as July.
Windows 7 has been received well among early testers in general. It has addressed several of Vista’s shortcomings with a cleaner look and better hardware compatibility. It also has more touchscreen capability, though it’s still unclear whether a practical touchscreen interface will emerge for desktop computers.
Microsoft is still in love with market segmentation, at the cost of consumer confusion as well as patching and troubleshooting complications. Windows 7 comes in 6 flavors, very similar to the Vista model. One notable change, Windows 7 Starter Edition has been hamstrung, in that it can only run 3 applications at once, does not support 64-bit computing, and offers no support for the Aero interface. Starter Edition is aimed at netbooks and low end PCs. Hopefully, the Starter Edition will die a quick death, and whoever came up with the idea will be fired, rehired, and then fired again. One upside of the Windows 7 Starter Edition: at least we should get an amusing Apple commercial out of the deal.
Still, it’s good to see Microsoft taking steps to fix things and Windows 7 seems to be a move in the right direction.
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