Microsoft said Tuesday that its latest version of Windows, Windows 7, would be faster and better than any previous version. Regular PC users will be able to test a beta version somewhere next year, Microsoft said.
It will, the Associated Press reported today, ‘let users choose to see fewer alerts and warnings from their computers. Rampant notifications and pop-up windows alerting people to potential security risks has irked many users of Windows Vista.‘
Steven Sinofsky, a senior vice president in Microsoft’s Windows group was quoted by the AP as saying: “We had all the best intentions of helping to secure the PC platform even more, particularly for novice PC users who needed to be protected. Despite the difficult change we introduced, we did move forward the ecosystem, making it more secure for end users.”
Changes, as compared to Vista, can be read here. It seems that the new system will be quite different, faster, cleaner, and easier in use.
Having said that, the above is not exactly difficult to accomplish considering the mostly horrendous job Microsoft did with Vista. The computer I use used Vista, but it was replaced with XP (and Linux) later, because Vista was too slow and gave all kinds of problems.
Glad to see that Vista is about to be replaced by a different system, lets just hope that Windows 7 will be practical – it cannot possibly be worse than Vista.
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