Do you work for Apple or are you just an Idiot?

Number one on my wish list is an OS that works with my existing software and hardware. Windows 7 does not. Maybe after Service Pack 2 I will give it another try.

Microsoft and other big players need to listen and understand their customer's needs. Users at all levels need to have a clear productivity reason (i.e. improvement) to encourage (not force) an upgrade to a newer O/S or hardware... after all there can be a significant cost to this upgrade (i.e. possible new hardware, training, etc). Sadly a number of products released these days are done for technology sake (i.e. whiz bang look) as opposed to productivity sake...
Cheers,
Sam

Microsoft owes it to Vista owners to allow a free or very low cost upgrade path. Vista was a major failure for most applications and now consumers are having to pay the price of upgrading (to 7) to get the performance and features that were promised in Vista.

One thing the author didn't mention was the "every-other-one" phenomenon. Basically, software producers, including OS providers, will put out a "features release" and then a "solid release" that fixes the bugs of the previous one, while introducing a small, but carefully selected suite of new features that is just large enough to justify a healthy version number bump and upgrade campaign. XP stabilized the previous version of Windows. Windows 7 stabilizes Vista, and so forth. If you want new, whiz-bang features AND stability, too, you will need to wait for SP2 of Windows EIGHT at the earliest -- perhaps SP1 of windows NINE. What you have now is the "good" version of Vista. Microsoft isn't doing anything that it and hundreds of other manufacturers and software houses haven't already been doing for a couple of decades. They're just following the natural developmental progression. To complain because we are in the "solid system" phase of that cycle is to have unforgiving and even unrealistic expectations, I think. And believe me, I am no defender of Microsoft. This is just how software -- especially SYSTEM software -- is done. Apple, in particular, has followed this pattern for years. The open source products tend to evolve when they have critical mass, but even some of the larger and more popular of them have settled into a pattern of "features release" followed by "stability release."

By all means, though, let's talk about features we would like to see in the next "exciting" release of Windows.

Support for ARM would be nice if they want to play a full role in the evolution of netbooks.

Microsoft has never been an innovator - they have always been a grabber of others technology and marketing it as if they developed the idea. Good Marketing. Vista was and still is horrible. Paying for a BAD product - is REASON to complain. I expect to get what I pay for regardless of JamesAndersonMerritt statements of every other one - I really do not give a hoot how hard it is to do something or what path of progression or how you need to do it; if you ask me to purchase something you have manufactured - I expect to get what I payed for and anything less than that is TRASH and a waste of MY time and MY money, and I have a RIGHT to complain about it and to demand what I payed for!! The real winners in Business are those who aren't telling me about the difficulties of their business problems but those who are providing the products and services that they have promised whether through advertising or other means!! I am sick of BAD service and BAD products, take your excuses elsewhere. If you advertise a car that is reliable and fun to drive - IT BETTER BE, and if it is NOT - I do not want to hear the engineering was difficult, the cash flow for R and D was not there or any other comment about your problems to deliver what you said you were going to deliver!! I don't care if the CHEF put the sugar in the salt container because you have no system in place to make sure that does not happen. Is that Clear Enough.