Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer have revealed a few bits and pieces of the successor to Windows Vista, for now called simply Windows 7. The demo (on May 27, 2008 at D6) was all about User Interface - “multi touch”, reworked task bar and visuals. Oh well… as much as I’d like to look at something aesthetically pleasing (not that the visuals in Windows 7 are thrilling, no: still the same dumbed-down UI attempting to please the aesthetically challenged public at all cost...) how about making the new kernel as close to 100% reliable as humanely possible first? How about making the work of application developers for Windows easier, eh? Making all Microsoft’s own software development tools compatible with Vista would be a good start: gee, when I’m loading Visual Studio, what does it exactly do for almost a minute of disk spinning and 100% CPU utilization before anything actually shows up on the screen???
More (much more...) on this topic to come.
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