Digital BW, The Print

Tom Baker wrote:

> Given the many negative things many have had to say about Vista, I'm 
> wondering why one would want to rush out and get Windows 7 before the 
> first service pak.  I've got Vista 64, Vista 32, and XP PRO now.  They 
> all work fine so I'm staying with them until SP1 version of Windows 7 is 
> released.

Vista SP2, at least in my case, has been very good.  It hasn't
solved all of the issues I trip over, such as terrible file copy
performance, but at least my printers work correctly now (for
example).

Windows 7 is very much an effort to salvage the image of Windows,
and, despite marketing attempts to portray it as a new OS, it's not.
Windows 7 is largely based on the same code as Vista - there's no way
that MS could really produce another major release of Windows in such
a relatively short time.

My speculation is that Microsoft realized that Vista was a poisoned
brand, but that the OS was fundamentally sound, it just needed a bit of
work.  So, instead of pushing to "fix Vista", they've scheduled the fixes
to Vista to be released as a new OS, a new brand.

In other words, Windows 7 is probably a lot like Vista SP3 :-)

Dana