Windows 7, Vista

InfoWorld: If [Microsoft] Windows is a dead end, what’s next?

[Windows 7 is] essentially the same kernel and the same OS, with a couple new technologies thrown in, such as the Surface-based multitouch capabilities and the ability for developers to ribbon-bar-enable their own apps for better consistency with Microsoft’s new UI approach (one that people either seem to love or hate). “It’s not anything radical,” says Neil MacDonald, a Gartner analyst who follows Microsoft. “It’s a polished version of Vista.”

If Windows 7 is more of the same, then maybe it’s time to conclude that Windows is a technology dead end. Last spring, Gartner warned that Microsoft had to radically change Windows or watch it fade into irrelevancy. Windows 7 is not that radical change.

 

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