Windows 7 finally in stores…
Number 7 used to be my lucky number or at least a number that I feel optimistic about until Microsoft decided to call its latest Windows release: Windows 7. I got this strange feeling about Windows 7 already when I was announced back in 2007.
I thought they might add some fancy icons and give it more glance and fresh look but underneath it will be the same old crap. Some people might say, well Windows XP was a stable operating system, probably the most stable operating system Microsoft ever made. How good is the performance of an operating system when it crashes hundreds of time everyday, eats up all the processor capacity and the memory available?
Many of you have probably heard the joke about having a “virus” on the computer called “Vista” !
The engineers at Intel scratch their heads everyday to improve their processors and the manufactures dumps more and more memory into the PCs, for Microsoft to run their latest Windows.
Windows 7 is now available in stores and as usual, the Microsoft marketing machine goes at full rate. It’s not surprising after all, marketing is what Microsoft does best. This is the only reason to explain how a series of bad operating systems still manage to dominate the computer world all these years.
According to Forrester, 79% of the enterprise installed base is with Windows XP, check the chart on the left for more information about the distribution of operating systems.
Obviously Microsoft makes most of its money from enterprise users, and from volume license deals, and these are not the target of today’s launch but rather the consumer market where Microsoft is pushing people to the 7th heaven with their “7 days of Windows 7 offers“.
The irony in the story is that people will jump into whatever latest windows version that Microsoft releases just to get rid of the version that currently have. Sooner or later, they realize that it is still the same old crap covered with fancy features.
It’s really amazing to read the features of Windows 7 and look at the comparison chats with other versions, but would Microsoft be able to convince the big volume customers that it is worth the pain of upgrading?