Microsoft: Windows 7 will make up for Vista's error

  

At the Microsoft Professional Developers Conference, Microsoft unveiled its next-generation operating system product, Windows 7, for the first time and announced the roadmap for Windows 7 release.

Since then, Microsoft has repeatedly stated that Windows 7 will certainly draw lessons from Windows Vista, which is widely criticized by users. Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president of Microsoft's Windows and Windows Live division, said the first public beta of Windows 7 will be released early next year, and the subsequent beta and release will be based on user feedback.

Microsoft still plans to release Windows 7 Vista three years after the launch of Vista, Sinofsky added. This means that if Windows 7 is still on schedule, its commercial release time will be at the end of 2009, and users will be able to get it at the end of January 2010.

Sinofsky said that Microsoft is learning the lessons of Vista. Vista has been criticized and criticized by users and the media since its release, and Microsoft's competitor Apple has also used Vista to create a "successful creation" of the most famous humorous TV commercials. It can be said that Vista has made Microsoft's face lose.

Sinofsky acknowledges that users' criticism of Vista is understandable, especially around the lack of hardware, software and peripheral partners when Microsoft releases Vista.

Early Vista users were experiencing application incompatibility issues and found that devices and peripherals were not working properly on Vista because the related drivers were not released.

Microsoft will not repeat the mistakes of Vista, Sinofsky said. Since the operating system kernel used by Windows 7 -- or its underlying code base -- is the same as Vista and Windows Server 2008, all the devices and applications that can run on them can also run on Windows 7.

<;All device and compatibility issues will not appear on Windows 7," Sinofsky said.

Microsoft will also adjust the UAC feature of Windows 7 (User Account Control). UAC first appeared in Vista, causing great inconvenience to users. By adjusting, UAC of Windows 7 will greatly improve the user's work efficiency, Sinofsky said.

UAC prevents unauthorized users from making unauthorized changes to their computers. In Vista, for some design reasons, it even prevents authorized users from accessing applications and features that should be available over the network.

UAC repeatedly prompts users with information through pop-up windows, which brings great inconvenience to users, because Vista users report that these pop-up messages frequently appear, even after they have been authorized to perform a task. The same is true.

Sinofsky acknowledges that Microsoft's original meaning is to use UAC to make the user's operating system more secure, but the actual situation is "some discrepancies". In Windows 7, Microsoft will focus on the security aspects of UAC, but will ensure that it is no longer called a user-infringing feature, Sinofsky said.

A more useful new feature of Windows 7 is the ability to browse a streamlined view of all files and folders -- not only all the files and folders on the user's computer, but also the network that the user can access. Files and folders on other computers.

This is the so-called Libraries feature. Microsoft claims that this feature of Windows 7 allows users to search the entire computer folder more comprehensively, greatly improving the efficiency of desktop search.

Windows 7 has also changed another new feature of Vista -- Gadgets. Gadgets is a small application that enables users to quickly search for information such as stock prices or weather. In Windows 7, users can freely drag the Gadgets icon on the desktop, while in Vista, the icon is fixed in the taskbar.

Perhaps, the new feature of Windows 7 "sexy" is the touch interface, which allows users to control the application with their fingertips and small gestures, completely omitting the mouse. If a user opens a photo folder in a Windows Folder, it can flip through the photos with their fingers, or drag the photos to the Windows Paint application window and even modify them directly on the photo.

Microsoft has high hopes for Windows 7, but whether it can restore the face of the Windows operating system, we will wait and see.

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