I wanted to write a few words regarding windows 7, as I feel that vista though impressive is a sort of stop gap. This isn’t to take away from the huge time it’s taken to design code and implement it.I know that there is a forum for the new WinFS it would be nice for a windows 7 option.
I’m not currently bothered either way about WinFS, I expect this will mean that FAT32/NTFS will be defunct and we will all have to make another decision about migrating to the new system, in fact i doubt we will have the choice especially if the new OS comes with it.
Vista utilises modern technology, what I mean by this is - we could not run vista with older technology, smaller chipsets and ram etc (I know people do) but efficient is it?
This is a fundamental point, if it’s a security issue and Microsoft tell us it is, I’m confident that newly written code could easily do the job using few system resources, there are plenty of examples out there.
If its aesthetics like aero then that’s another issue, to make thing pretty you need power or better management.
Vista is huge based heavily on XP its main problem resource wise. Microsoft are not stupid but they sometimes make it difficult for themselves they battle with MAC for looks the two system are similar in many ways. I love Microsoft but I don’t like how they implement things. A simple example is they make or purchase an antivirus product which is never comparable to leading market products, instead of mimicking a top product they nearly always fall short, why?
One saving grace is the superb office 2007. This is a master piece of work, easy to navigate it feels natural, I expect to see this GUI process in the next windows 7.
Windows need to start from the beginning modularly encapsulating each software programme so that it does not affect other programmes. This will ensure a fast system not bogged down with numerous programmes running. Do I need my camera software, spyware, burning applications running in the background if I’m using a paint programme?
The system should have a core (I know the kernel has been rewritten) that is protected it may even hold your precious winFS files. Everything else could function in virtually.
An example - it is often quicker to search for something over the internet than on your pc, so speed of applications over a server is not an issue, you could run word online similar to servers so virtual applications independently run on your pc would be fast secure and easily recoverable. Im hitting two area here a zone for applications and core fundamentals
I was just wondering what you would like to see in MS win 7? I hope that you will not need a 8GB of Ram, Pentium 1000 duo with a nvidia 12000GT. If the next OS could run on a 18 month old XP spec I would be happy.
Food for thought