Microsoft: We have never worked like Windows 7...

In the past year, Mike Nash, the global vice president of Microsoft's global Windows platform strategy, has to go to China twice a quarter, most of the time with Microsoft. Communicate with partners. As a Windows expert, Mike Nash has experienced several Windows product releases over the past 18 years. For Windows 7 development, Mike Nash said, “We have never been so hard.”

November 5, in the new edition Two weeks after the release of the operating system Windows 7, Mike Nash finally heard the news from the user feedback. Microsoft announced that 12 large Chinese companies have successfully deployed Windows 7.

The Loss of Vista

Every time a new version of Windows is released, Microsoft is competing with itself, this time especially difficult.

As a completely updated version of Windows XP, Vista is the most expensive product of Microsoft's Windows operating system, but due to poor compatibility, most users simply give up trying. So that this operating system with 50 million lines of code is called the biggest failure in the history of Microsoft software development.

The 39-year-old software engineer Ding Yong still remembers his friend complaining about his inability to control the "frustration" that Warcraft has brought to him on Vista.

In reflection, the next generation of operating system - Windows 7 began planning. In countries around the world, Microsoft collects a large amount of information about the behavior of businesses and individual users using Windows in order to optimize the operating system during the development of Windows 7.

Adam Anger, general manager of Windows Commercial Products at Greater China, said that after working with independent market analysts, they visited the decision makers of 400 companies to optimize the functionality of Windows 7 through their feedback. . The goal is to "emphasize current and future needs in the new operating system, rather than doing it based on past needs."

In the past, from the Windows 95 to the Windows XP era, Microsoft only needed to find dozens of mainstream products on the market for testing to solve the compatibility problem.

Customer Leadership

To erase the shadow left by Vista. From the first day of development, Microsoft engineers were asked to clearly plan the prototype. The design concept of Windows7 consists of five parts, designed for service, designed for entertainment, designed for personalization, and easy to manage. Designed and designed for notebooks.

Intel's internal IT department has been testing Windows 7, and another chip maker, AMD, has been working with Microsoft during the development and testing phase of Windows 7. At the beginning of this year, HP set up a global project team to train and support Windows 7 related products.

A year ago, Microsoft headquarters decided that more than 1,300 software compatibility tests and error debugging work in Windows 7 in 22 languages ​​other than English were handed over to Microsoft China R&D Group. In the past this work was done by the Microsoft Global Team.

After learning the Vista test, Ding Yong found that from the time of Vista to Windows7, it increased to more than 80 people. It was originally possible to "walk through the field" compatibility test and evaluation to be enforced in Windows 7 test. . If you find the problem, the person who debugs it will be there and you can solve it at any time. This is the first time in the history of Microsoft's operating system development.

Compatible with the first

Currently, 91% of applications, 92% of hardware devices and 95% of websites in the Chinese market are compatible with Windows 7. In this regard, Chen Chong, chairman of the Softening Industry Association, believes that "Windows 7 is a product that Microsoft began to listen carefully to users' voices. This is a huge change for the huge industrial chain composed of Microsoft and Microsoft."

Compared with the Vista era, Win7 partners have increased from more than a dozen to more than twenty. Wei Qing, general manager of the marketing department of Microsoft China Consumer and Online Business Unit, and his colleagues worked with Chinese OEMs and partners for most of the year to ensure that their partners' products are compatible before Windows 7 is released.

Lenovo and Microsoft's global collaboration based on Windows 7 product technology began in the first half of 2008.

ASUS Computer EeePC Global Product Manager, ASUS Eee Family Product Manager Huang Guoyang believes that "Compared with Vista, the applicability of Windows7 can be seen in Microsoft's emphasis on the market." Windows7 performance in the Asus Eee family almost All products are reflected.