And I just bought Vista... Crap!

Article wrote:That new version of Windows is due at the end of this year. It's called Windows 7

Article wrote:Instead of a triumphant successor to Windows XP, Vista has proved one of the company's biggest and costliest mis-steps.

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Microsoft has clearly learned from its mistakes. It retired the executives behind Vista and assigned Windows 7 to Steven Sinofsky, who had previously been in charge of Microsoft's Office suite - a product that under Sinofsky's laser focus had always arrived on time and remained perennially successful.

Article wrote:In fact, what's most surprising is that Windows 7 seems almost identical to Vista at first and even second glance. There's been no major change to the familiar and still appealingly slick user interface.

Windows 7 has the same overall look and feel as Vista and runs the same software and hardware. Microsoft wisely sees this as the time for evolution rather than revolution.

Article wrote:A more practical change to Windows 7 is the enhanced taskbar running along the foot of the screen. Nicknamed the Superbar, this is no longer just a place for switching between programs that are already running. By pinning an icon onto the enhanced taskbar, it can now be used to start your favourite and most-used programs.

Article wrote:Instead of a My Documents folder, there's now a Personal Documents library, for example, and that library keeps track of every document on your computer. It's a tweak to the virtual folder approach of Vista but is faster and smoother to use. Each personal library has an equivalent public library for sharing documents, photos, music and so forth over a network.

Article wrote:while the Windows Media Player now plays videos in the popular DivX and Xvid formats and comes with a cut-down mini version just for playing music.

Article wrote:The good news - perhaps the best news - is that Windows 7 is faster than Vista.