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Lemme see if I can rewrite. Take 2: Thanks for all the feedback that we have been getting. That much of it is positive is certainly appreciated. Everyone has done a great job sharing their views on specifics, wishes, and requests. Short aside: A Senior VP is reading your blog comments - that is awesome. I love getting these mails and reading the comments. It is fantastic. I have a day job, and heck, it is wearing me down. What we are going to do is look to the emails and comments as a way of suggesting posts we should write.

Lemme tell you what the Win7 team thinks about when planning a release. Leave some comments to let us know what you think. Sometimes we do big releases, sometime we do smaller ones. When we plan Win7, we argue a lot and then decide how many people will work on it, and for how long — and then, pretty much, you as an end user, developer, or partner decide if the release is major or minor. End-users are generally the most straight-forward when deciding if a release is major or minor.

For an end-user a release is a big deal if they want to go out and buy an upgrade or buy a new PC. DOS 6. DriveSpace was the feature, I think. Well, actually, Windows 95 looked like it had a bunch of cool new things too. And it could connect to the internet better than Windows 3.

That was a feature I spent money on. And every Windows since then has been able to connect to the internet. So that's not really a feature we can sell again. We keep trying to figure out reasons for people to upgrade to a new OS, but really, an OS these days is pretty much just something that you get with a computer. It is the shiznit. Developers look at a release through a different lens. Obviously for developers a release is a major one if there are new APIs and capabilities to take advantage of in their software—again straight-forward enough.

Actually, developers haven't cared about the APIs in new releases of Windows in ages - pretty much no software is 'Windows Vista or better' - no new API is so wonderous that you are going to limit the market for your application to 'just Vista users'.

Pretty much all software today requires XP SP Kind of like how developers are not getting comfortable with the idea of dropping Windows as a minimum requirement, which means that can start relying on the new APIs Partners are the cheap bastards who create PCs and other hardware, and are a major part of the make-it-as-cheaply-as-possible ecosystem that Windows is part of.

Partners like to think that we can put some nifty feaure in Windows that will make everybody run out and buy a new computer. Like Sideshow that didn't work out too well - does anybody have one of those?

Or tablets that worked out a little bit better. Browsing the web on the couch with a tablet is the shiznit. But sadly the sales numbers don't reflect that. Partners hate having to update their drivers - they don't want to spend the money.

That is why they love 'class drivers' - generic drivers for bits of hardware that are actually just commodity things at this point. Like cheap sound cards Ever since AC97 came along. But generic hardware doesn't make much money. Occasionally, partners want to 'differentiate' make more money on a bit of hardware by trying to convince you that it is somehow better and thus worth more money - so they create a piece of hardware usually called SuperVoodoo Extreme BlingBling XXXPress that you have to have, and to really differentiate it, they add shitloads of SuperVoodoo Extreme BlingBling XXXPress control panels and startup applications and system tray applications to your system.

IT professionals are overworked and underpaid - so conservative by nature and thus take a conservative view of change.

Hate it, in fact. Because the beancounters in this shit economy make them, they carefully evaluate if any new piece of software is going to be a good return on investment. So for an IT professional a major release would be one that delivers significant business value. This business value could be defined as a major investment in deployment and management of the software for example. So the fact that Windows Vista has group policy settings where Windows XP has only - well, that makes them pretty happy - They can configure the twelve thousand Vista computers in their company exactly the way they want them, from one place.

I totally made up those numbers, by the way - I can't be bothered to look them up. But I think they are close to the real ones. Folks usually think that re-architecting leads to better performance, breaking with the past leads to using less memory, etc - I like to call it 'The Cargo Cult of Clean Slate' The grass is always greener on the other side - we have long term plans for Windows, and harsh, radical changes can sink you.

Ask Adobe what they think about Apple's harsh changes. As Dick Cheney or was it Rumsfeld once said Something about known unknowns. We have known unknowns now, and we prefer them to unknown unknowns. Or something. But we still do a lot of spring cleaning in Windows. Spend a lot of time on it. The key is always a balance. We can have big changes for all customers if we prepare all the necessary folks partners and application developers to work through the change.

We can have small changes have a big impact if they are the right changes at the right time, and those will get recorded over time as a major release. We dedicated our full engineering team and a significant schedule to building the Windows 7 Client OS. That makes it a major undertaking by any definition. We intend for Windows 7 to be an awesome release. No, seriously, we think it will be pretty cool. Things are going much much better than they were at this point of Windows Vista.

Posted by Soma at PM 52 comments:. Turns out I forgot to publish this last week According to Australian computer expert Vito Cassisi My opinion: Think Linux here - in Linux everything is modular and replaceable. For example, you can replace the whole GUI component without affecting anything else. Windows Vista is modular and theoretically any part is replaceable. With the abundance of third party applications written for Windows, this would spur a whole new variety of customisation and open-source implementation.

I don't think this is what the average customer wants us to be working on. Back in the day, you could make Windows load something other than explorer.

I don't know if that still works. A solution may be to include an XP virtual machine which ensures compatibility with said software. Apple did a similar thing when they re-wrote their OS a few years back. That's a lot of work, and a lot of project risk. It is not a good idea.

Windows Vista does a good job of 'shimming' old apps to work with Vista. That's the best approach. It protected people from themselves, but it was too intrusive. An alternate idea is to teach the user the importance of limited accounts and how they prevent the accessibility of nasties such as viruses.

But the constant demand for computing power by the latest titles read: Crysis can leave the majority in the dark. This would minimise overhead and increase performance. What would you turn off in this 'gaming mode'? The average user does not want to deal with 'mode switches'; Windows is supposed to be lean-and-mean enough to get out of the way when the user plays a game.

Before you start: Windows Search is supposed to back off when you are using your computer. These pieces of software allow you to remove unwanted components from the OS before you install it. This increases available HDD space, and also improves performance depending on the services cut out. The vast majority of users get their copy of Windows pre-installed with their computer.

They don't install it themselves. How much does the disk space cost that Vista takes up? It is literally not worth your time to go delete chunks of it. I find it funny that there are so many tweaking utilities for slimming down a Vista install - they are using the componentization system we built; as far as I can tell, it is not like they are inventing anything new. Perhaps even let the user modify the GUI to their liking, i.

We do this already - we do a lot of usability studies, to see what we should change. But yes, we should make system dialogs like file open, etc easy and fast. This would lessen the current Windows ambiguity. I can't not disagree more. Windows 7 would really benefit from an improved file system, and such an improvement is bound to attract businesses that shunned Vista for its lack of innovation and improvement.

Businesses want a version of Windows that never crashes, never needs updating, and that they can manage from the other side of the world. And we talk to businesses a lot. What do you think businesses want from 'an improved file system'? The relational database structure should enhance overall system performance. This statement is somewhat similar to: Taking a shower will make me more attractive to Angelina Jolie. The more immediately pressing concern is that she doesn't know that I fucking exist.

You want to upgrade to Windows 7, but have to pay three times for three separate licences. In a world where P2P and torrents are commonly used, how many users would slip into the world of cracks and keygens? The solution to an extent would be to offer a home licence. A small fee to be able to use the OS up to, for example, five times in the one household would surely benefit both Microsoft and the average home user. Driver Availability Arguably the Achilles heel of Vista was the slow uptake of drivers by device manufacturers.

Although this is hard for Microsoft to dictate, it would be in their best interest to promote driver production during the OS development stage. Even if the drivers are beta, it sure beats being left with no hardware functionality. We're working on this. We're not changing a huge number of driver subsystems ever again; Vista taught us that lesson. Internet Explorer 8 would win the hearts of many web developers if it was created to web standards.

Look it up. Yes, it isn't perfect, but it is x better. The main problem with this approach is that it confuses users into thinking Vista is using several hundred MB of RAM just for itself. This is solving a problem in exactly the wrong way.