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It has become the general consensus of technology analists and consumers alike that Windows Visa was an utter flop. Microsoft realized that and decided to ship a new operating system that is significantly better than Vista. It is called Windows 7 and it is a major improvement over Vista!

First of all, it does not demand nearly as high system requirements, unlike and because of that, the operating system is much more snappy! That is very likely the most important improvement because Vista was so slow and did not work on netbooks because they have very low system specs. This also allows the netbooks that people carry everywhere with them to have the newest operating system which makes compadibility much easier.  Secondly, the User Accout cotrols have eliminated the “Cancel or Allow” prompt which made changing system preferences extremly annoying! The final major improvement is the taskbar because, Microsoft has adopted a lot of the ideas behind the Apple dock which lets users find their programs much easier.

I do still have a few issues with Windows 7, the first is the versions there are still six versions of Windows 7, which is an improvement over the numerous versions of Vista but, would much prefer having only two versions, like in Windows XP, a Professional edition for business users and a home edition obviously for Home users. One step better is Apple’s model where they ship only one edition of  the operating system and have all the features availible to all users for the same price. But, Microsoft would probably much rather make money off of  people paying for upgrades. The final issue I have is the upgrade price, they are charging at least $100 to upgrade to  Windows 7. I say Microsoft owes all those people who have been stuck with Vista for the past few years and they are forcing them to pay another $100 to improve. I know Microsoft won’t give a free  upgrade but a $30 upgrade to Vista users would be a nice appology to Vista users and would make people more likley to do the upgrade. They should also, take another hint from their friends in Cupertino and have family packs so that users can buy licences for all the computers in their house and get a small discount.

All-in-all,  Windows 7 is much, much better than Vista and I reccomend trying out the beta version, it is a very stable snappy beta and I believe that it is very close to being a finished product. Although Microsoft has yet to confirm a release date speculation is that it will be released in Augest or September. Vista users should definity invest in the upgrade and XP users should definitly consider it at the very least.

When the most recent release of Windows, Vista, came out in January 2007 the majority of users were underwhelmed to say the least. Usually in operating systems, new release work better than their predacessor, and have more features. However, Vista caused some users who upgraded greif and sometimes was even less useful than their old operating system was.

Vista’s graphical user interface is a definite upgrade from XP, many believe it was copied off of Mac OS I think it is some what similar to Mac OS, but, I think that it has more if it’s own Windows style as well. Vista also requires more computing power in order to support their new features and a lot of machines that were shipped with Vista were not built to optimal specifications to support Vista well. So even with all this, Vista is still slower than XP. Other problems are security and the problems of functionality.

I believe that Vista was a 5 year project that should never be released and is the next Windows ME, as in an operating system that was a total flop. I reccomend any one getting a new to go with the much more relibable and stable Windows XP. I think however, Windows 7 will be a much better OS and could be a good replacement for XP.