Whenever Microsoft and Windows is written about it never fails that some really stupid things are assumed or said and with Windows 7 starting to garner press even at the M1 stage we are already starting to see the attention getting fluff showing up in mainstream blogs. The newest fluff piece by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes on ZDNet’s Gear for Geeks blog is the one that caught MG Siegler’s attention on his ParisLemon blog.
In his post today MG quite rightly ripped into this piece of fluff and brought some common sense into the picture as he ended his post with
Yes, I’ve been known to use outlandish titles from time to time, but come on, this one is backed up by almost less than nothing. Windows 7 will be the best ever if Microsoft listens to customer feedback and fixes everything that is wrong with Vista. Sure, maybe, but not only is that a tall order, it’s utterly ridiculous to speculate about that at this point. Why not just say: “Windows 7 will be the best Windows ever if Microsoft makes the best version of Windows ever for version 7″? You would have saved yourself a lot of typing.
Much of this recent hyperbole is a result of a couple of anonymous comments made on Neowin and followed by one on Long Zheng’s blog which are being pointed to as confirmation of working M1 (Milestone 1) copies of Windows 7 in the wild; with additional comments on the whole thing on the LiveSide blog. Note that I said anonymous as there is absolutely no proof that any of this is true.
That said though I have a feeling from my reading of tea leaves and in between the lines of a variety of MS oriented blogs that Windows 7 could indeed be the game changer for Microsoft’s consumer OS version. The biggest change if it is indeed true that Windows 7 will see the transition from a basically a single monstrous install of everything including the kitchen sink to one of a modular building blocks style of installation. This would be very similar to to what we are seeing with Windows Server 2008.
To speculate at anything else about Windows 7 at this point might be fun and give us fluff posts to poke fun at but it does nothing more than that. While what I think is in the future for Windows would be fun to write about I don’t think that speculation of any kind at this point does Windows any favors.
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that I made a blog comment post about on one of my sites. That post was still recieving comments as recently as this week., yet 12 months later a quick google didn't turn up much else regarding this break thru, and the top hit was the engadget stroy.
It doesn't take too many worthless posts to devalue a blog site completely.
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