Microsoft promises better experience with Win 7

Robert Hallock 17 Oct, 2008 at 12:30pm ET Article published in Tech

While Microsoft has spent the months subsequent to January 2006 taking an aggressive stance on Vista’s prosperity, cracks in the dam are appearing as obstinance yields for the need to market. Larry Osterman, the third longest-standing Microsoft employee and a down-in-the-trenches developer for the upcoming Windows 7 promises that it will be Vista, but better.

Instead of forcing features into the OS that may not be complete, Microsoft has promised that it will simply cut them to deliver a solid experience. Outlining a new way of coding for Microsoft, Osterman says that the development team is being left to decide what should be tossed out and has full managerial support to do so.

Those of us on the receiving end of Windows 7 sincerely hope that the scrutiny of actual coders will improve the product beyond a marketer’s ability to screw it up.

Comments

17 Oct 2008 ~ 6:54pm Leonardo What, the writer-developers having trump authority over the marketing drones? No way!

That is quite innovative for Microsoft, isn't it? Windows 7 just became more attractive in my mind. This bears watching.
19 Oct 2008 ~ 7:55am GnomeWizardd I am so watching this close, It would be great if it had all the features of vista but they have to be enabled by the user or even if it was just plain and simple like 98 was. I am intrigued
19 Oct 2008 ~ 8:39pm GooD Can't wait to see more information about what windows 7 will be.

Like others, the idea of having a "clean" install at first with barely nothing activated would be a nice feature.

What windows should be imo is a windows that simply ask you "what kind of user are you" and then set a basic profile that can be customize later with a SIMPLE interface to activate or desactivate some of the windows feature.

It would be nice if in almost 1 click we could say "Hey, im a gamer, i want windows to take less ressources even if it hurts the looks of it, i just use it to run gamews anyway...'

or 'i want windows to be as beautifull as it can be". Some kind of things.

So you could chose a profile, then customize it and be gone in 30 seconds with THE windows YOU need.
20 Oct 2008 ~ 8:34am kryyst It would be nice if windows 7 installed like windows 2008. If you don't know what that means you essentially start with a basic bare bones install. Then select from a list of features you want to add in. So you can make as bare bones or feature rich installation as you want. The good news is that if you try to access something, for which you haven't installed that feature it plainly says 'you must install X' It's extremely simple to work with.
20 Oct 2008 ~ 8:35am Thrax That's my hope as well, but I don't think it's meant to be.

/me sighs.
20 Oct 2008 ~ 8:34pm QCH I also like the idea of hand selecting what items to install. Even if they grouped them by broad categories (gamer, corporate, home, designer, custom). Of course, install scripts to make the install unattended and molded for the environment.
20 Oct 2008 ~ 9:10pm Leonardo modular OS - that could be fun! Is it too much to hope for?
20 Oct 2008 ~ 10:59pm jared I long for the option to NOT install MSN Explorer and Windows Movie Maker without having to always make custom isos via nLite