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About LinkBacksRead more.Earlier this week, a web user claimed an early look at Windows 7 and provided a mini review. Now, a supposed Microsoft insider responds with some thoughts of his own.
Read more.Earlier this week, a web user claimed an early look at Windows 7 and provided a mini review. Now, a supposed Microsoft insider responds with some thoughts of his own.
Surely the deeper integration of Windows with Windows Live will be fine provided the hooks are made available to competitors (Yahoo, as defined in the article).
That said... this still looks and smells like a fish to me.
Maybe, but there's actually quite a lot of sensible sounding stuff there. If it's a hoax, what would be the point?
Wasn't the last microsoft viral marketing attempt a total flop? I can't think of any other than the origami platform.
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Oooooh it's exciting...
From a viral marketing point of view, there seems to be little point in starting this early? Only the real geeks will hear of this...
Hey I found this vid of supposedly longhorn and loads of the features matched up with the 'review':
YouTube - Longhorn concept
If you go through, it's got all the nice features he's describing, how the sidebar is integrated into the desktop now, etc.
It's just a youtube vid though, but a lightbulb went up on my head.
It's possible microsoft dropped loads of the features for vista to save them for windows 7, it's equally possible the reviewer just looked at these kind of videos and made a review up based on them.
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the problem with second guessing the microsoft developement is that they have hudge amounts of money in research, many projects see the light of day, but never get into the cut.
many of the things in that youtube video, whilst cool, would require EVEN more CPU and GPU time, Memory, GPU memory, even perhaps more demand on HDD bandwidth.
In short, you have to drop elements of the cool bling.
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Think of all the videos that were out when we were in this stage with Longhorn. What was shown is unreconisable to modern day Vista and for good reason. Teams play with what they can do on the new OS technology. Brainstorm ideas and turn it into code for demonstraition. Little bit's might make it into the final release but only if it's deemed worthy by management and inline with the OS milestone goals.
Same think will happen with Windows 7. We'll see a lot of stuff that isn't a good representation of the final product. It won't make the cut so to speak.
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