Microsoft promises better experience with Win 7

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited October 2008 in Science & 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.

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  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    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.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    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
  • GooDGooD Quebec (CAN) Member
    edited October 2008
    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.
  • kryystkryyst Ontario, Canada
    edited October 2008
    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.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    That's my hope as well, but I don't think it's meant to be.

    /me sighs.
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    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.
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    modular OS - that could be fun! Is it too much to hope for?
  • jaredjared College Station, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2008
    I long for the option to NOT install MSN Explorer and Windows Movie Maker without having to always make custom isos via nLite :D
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