Microsoft launches Windows 7 blog
Seeks dialogue based on mutual respect
THE VOLE'S marketing department has unveiled a rather bland-looking Windows 7 blog.
The new E7 blog is hosted by Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, the two senior engineering managers for the Windows 7 product.
In their first post, DeVaan and Sinofsky expressed interest in conducting a “two-way discussion” about designing Windows 7.
The blogging duo readily admitted that they had learned certain lessons about “disclosure” and getting ahead of themselves “in talking about features before understanding of them is solid”.
As such, the two pledged to “promise and deliver” by refraining from setting unrealistic expectations and prematurely announcing features that “that don’t make it”.
Naturally, the Volish blog moderators will delete or edit comments that contain “offensive or abusive language” to insure the dialog is conducted with “mutual respect”. µ
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I'm wondering how long it will be before we see "critical or dissenting" clauses added to those posts getting removed. I need an egg timer.Will it work with existing XP pc's unlike Vista?
Will it run games faster than XP, unlike Vista?Will it be easy to change wireless network settings like in XP, unlike Vista (in several different places, wizard and restriction PITA)?
Vista looks pretty, but it's a pain. It's like going from the easy to use and understand Win XP to some version of Linux that looks pretty but is a technical pain for non-techies.
Please can we have XP back? We are even willing to pay DELL an extra £50 per pc for it, please let us keep XP because Vista is fat and pushes up support and training costs.
Microsoft - do you have a "What does the customer want" survey where customers can tell you what we want? I didn't think so ;-)
PERFECT Windows 7
XP SP3 + aeroglass + ability to use more than 3GB RAM.That's what Vista SHOULD have been, that's what will make Windows 7 great.
And get rid of UAC which is the Jar Jar Binks of the OS world.
Just one thing :
Will they remove the deeply-embedded DRM, or will they still pretend that "users demand it" ?And if there are still "users" demanding it, can we have their names and addresses so that we can go and hang them, uh, have a chat with them (with a good length of rope) ?
Windows 7
Chazz Just so you know:Microsoft can't actually do anything withint heir coding for it to us more than 3-3.6GB of RAM thats down to how the binary code works with addressing the bits.The only way round it is for you to upgrade to XP or Vista 64 Bit which is readily availiable from Microsoft however you may have certain issues with drivers from certain computers.
A mix of Vista and Xp would be great for techies Vista is a very bad platform really everything has been prettiefied but when i want to get down to some diagnostics i have to go around things etc to do it, its not great.