Can Windows 7 Regain Lost Windows Users?

Can Windows 7 Regain Lost Windows Users?

Author JoeDigital

 

While it is not vastly different than Vista, (it is built out of Vista code, after all), Windows 7 presents itself as a streamlined operating system, with the power and simplicity to run on computers ranging from high-end performance PCs to low-end netbooks and UMPCs.

By now, most people have heard about the feature rich taskbar, which greatly simplifies keeping track of running applications in an easy to manage way, and the notification area (what everyone calls the system tray) has been tidied to encourage its use in the intended manner.

Micrsoft, seeing the emerging need for less greedy operating systems, especially in notebooks. The goal is to win back users who were lost in the transfer from XP to Vista, and to that end, Windows 7 even reports that ther are no major architectural changes from Vista, and tht most or all Vista applications should work fine under Windows 7.  Less than a third of windows users today are using Vista, with most continuing to use XP, perhaps wary of Vista’s history of compatibility and usability issues.

“Our goal was to make the UI in Windows 7 much easier to navigate. We’ll let the beta speak for itself but we have a high degree of optimism in it,” a Microsoft SPokesperson said. “Windows 7 has been optimized and engineered to work with anything: from
the smallest netbook to the most loaded laptop or desktop.” 

 

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