Posted 10/15/2008 at 06:59:52pm

The name of the o.s. is not all that important. They can call the next windows, Windows Junk and nobody would really care. If it works better than the previous versions and word is spread, people will buy it. It's the experience of the first thousand or so users that will propel a good product and not the name. WINDOW 7 is a good name though. It's more on the safe side and if it performs well, people will forgive and forget the vista blunder. Don't forget that consumers want value for their money. Make it affordable, stable and useful and prove that the apple mac ads are false. Then maybe, I will switch to Windows 7 and say bye bye to XP.

Posted 09/14/2008 at 03:19:23pm

I like Bill Gates, he seems a hundred times "friendlier" than some other guy I watch delivering keynotes. I also like watching the new vista ads, well, more of the second one. I have been using windows since 3.1 and I continue to work on a windows xp environment but I think I will skip vista. The company I'm working for was among the early adapters of vista and allocated 8 desktops for initial tests and all had problems we could not diagnose and fix. Sure there is now the SP1 and better drivers but we simply cannot justify the cost of upgrading existing hardware when the xp systems we have works extremely well. Sure vista is more secure but xp is secure just as well, and if there are vulnerable areas in xp, there are safety measures in place to augment security.

 If the ads are geared towards improving micorsoft's customer relations, then I have to say that it is working for a lot of my co-workers and myself. But if it aims to sell vista, I don't think it would do much in the retail market. Perhaps vista will dominate the oem machines because it's pre-installed by manufacturers but for the business and corporate environment, vista is not a neccesary upgrade.

 Sorry Bill, I like you but I'll skip vista and wait and see what windows 7 is all about.