Roger Kay, President at Endpoint Technologies is optimistic about Windows 7. I'm not!
A little less than 2-years after the launch of the much hated Windows Vista, Microsoft is getting ready to launch its successor.
Windows 7 is expected to be pre-installed in consumers PCs as early as the end of summer, just in time for the back-to-school season.
Under the hood, Windows 7 is essentially Vista, according to Endpoint Technologies analyst Roger Kay.
But for Kay, Windows 7 is better than Vista in important ways:
- Smaller footprint — The new OS takes up less disk space and runs with less main memory; part of the release surprise is the actual hardware specifications, which are similar to those for Windows XP, Vista’s less-resource-hungry predecessor.
- Faster — Everything is faster: boot time, application loading, overall performance.
- Quiescent — A lot of the old “chattiness” of Vista, particularly of user account control, is gone; the user interface stays out of your face and does what you tell it to do.
- More elegant — There are many fun and intuitive features that work well, stay in the background otherwise, and look good; the interface can be personalized more easily and to a greater degree.
Sounds like a MacOS me-too, right?
I’ll be testing the final release of Windows 7 soon on a Mac virtualized environment – just to fasten the comparison! – and will report back!
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