What will Windows 7 be like … magnificent ? The Goldilocks question.

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Life with Lunchhooks — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 13:21:37 GMT

One of the interesting bits of OS research coming out of Microsoft (stemming in part from their interest in managed languages) is Singularity.

re: What will Windows 7 be like … magnificent ? The Goldilocks question.

jeremyahagan@gmail.com — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:54:28 GMT

How about one more position? Why couldn't vista have been as awesome as WS08 is. Hopefully Windows 7 will be more like Server 08. I love it.

re: What will Windows 7 be like … magnificent ? The Goldilocks question.

jamesone — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 14:28:02 GMT

Jeremy, I know what you mean. I've got a Vista laptop on my lap and a Server 2008 laptop at my feet. They're not scientifically comparable, and both OSes use the same code base, but I do occasionally wonder which if Server 2008 is actually better optimized for workstation tasks than the workstation OS.

re: What will Windows 7 be like … magnificent ? The Goldilocks question.

Chuck — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 03:59:00 GMT

One thing is certain, Windows 7 will be proof positive to you that MS is full of geniuses who can't seem to be able to bow down far enough to help the foolish rabble (L)users.

Just re-read your own post to see your dripping disdain for the people you claim to be "helping".

I would welcome far less griping about the user base and a big ole heaping helping of humility from MS. MS screwed up Vista by not listening to their customer and by displaying their corporate-wide cult of arrogance.

We are not all a bunch of idiots.

re: What will Windows 7 be like … magnificent ? The Goldilocks question.

jamesone — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:44:55 GMT

Chuck, I've got no idea where you get that from. A dispiritingly large amount of my time is spent telling people in Redmond to come down from their ivory towers and talk to customers. Who do I claim to be helping in this post, and where's the disdain. I've reduced views of the OS to a few cardboard cutouts but that's hardly the same thing.

My experience of using vista for the last 2 1/2 years, makes me reject the idea that Vista is "screwed up". But some people do think that - and many of them have never used it. Sorry, to say it but the bald truth is that some of customers are very ill-informed about some of our products.

"Not listening to customers" simply doesn't match the facts. What we spend finding out what really works with real people is the same as the turnover of a good size software company.

Arrogance? I wish we still had some: it was lack of it which meant we wouldn't put a gun to the heads of hardware developers to get drivers written. I'm not aware of a single application which broke where the developer could point to something which was recommended in a past OS and didn't work on Vista.

As for "all a bunch of idiots". Microsoft customers are representative of humanity as a whole, with the same number of idiots, smart people, and the broadly normal.