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From the page: "Despite its enhanced security, improved CPU scheduler and excellent stability, itâ€s still the flawed gem in many critics†eyes"

I actually used Vista and it's NOT like that at all: Slow as hell, insecure as fuck, and crashed just as readily as Windows ME.

I've also learned that not a single version of Windows can compare to Linux. Windows 7 is going to be a whole load of nothing new. Trust me. It'll still be a bloated, locked-in, proprietary, drive-letter based operating system that will still be at the bottom of the operating system heap.

Meanwhile Linux and Mac OS X are actually doing new and interesting things. Windows, since it's first rlease as the DOS-based 1.0 in 1984, is constantly playing catch up: Mainstream features take about 5 years to actually appear on Windows, and only a matter of weeks, if not days for Linux.

20. What is Microsoft offering us with Windows 7? Nothing Linux and Mac OS X don't already have. As you said "think Linux" in modularity, except in this case you're not really getting any choices from Microsoft. Just an option of including some feature or not. In Linux it is ALL about alternatives. From what I read, it just won't be that way with Windows 7.

19. Apple did this already. When Mac OS X came out, it had a VM system for running Mac Classic software. This feature doesn't exist in Mac OS X anymore since people can actually move on with their software.

18. This is a good idea, but it just won't work if what people were doing with sudo--I mean UAC in Vista is any indication. Microsoft badly copied sudo in User Account Control. And the only way they can succeed in getting people to use Limited accounts is to teach their DEVELOPERS not to have their software depend on administrative permissions. Good luck with that.

17. Yeah right. What games really need is an operating system that actually tries to take as little resources as possible for itself. Windows does NOT fall into that category. Linux would actually be a great gaming OS if developers would actually stop using DirectX so much. SDL with OpenGL is actually comparable to the latest DirectX, and developers can actually port their software about.

16. This is something Microsoft definitely won't deliver, since Windows all the way up to Vista, was basically about forcing the user into one standard customization and not giving them any options. Reading Windows stumbles indicates to me that Windows is all about actually taking options away from the user: Even basic options I can find readily in Linux are gone in Windows.

15. Again, good luck with that: The existing GUI (Explorer) just plain isn't customizable. In order to get ANY third-party themes you actually have to use a patch, and no matter how hard you try, Windows Explorer always looks like Windows Explorer. To change this, Microsoft would have to rewrite half the operating system to accept a new GUI. Considering how Microsoft is now rushing this craptastic OS out the door, I doubt we'll see this happening.

14. Look at the trends at Microsoft. Instead of simplification, which is what an operating system needs, it's more and more complex. I anticipate that we might see several editions of Windows 7... but that we could create these editions by purchasing more modules for Windows... from Microsoft.

13. I'm not holding my breath for a greater file system. Microsoft has struck out with both FAT and NTFS. I dout WinFS, if it's ever seen, will actually be anywhere comparable to a Linux file system like ext3 or reiserfs or even jfs. Has Microsoft even made any attempts to resolve the fragmentation problem?

12. Nope. Microsoft is all about extremely restrictive licensing. It's part of how they get so much money since honest customers actually will waste $300 a pop for a subpar operating system like Windows. Fortunately, we're seeing a lot stronger Linux adoption thanks to Windows Vista. Windows 7 isn't going to recover them.

11. This is, sadly, not within Microsoft's control. And another of categories where Linux is actually beating the snot out of Windows purely by the fact that typical installations actually download and install all the drivers you need at install time. Windows XP has failed consistently to do that for me. That and Linux runs on WAAAAAY more architectures than Windows, which means that it supports about 5000% more devices readily.

10. Internet Explorer does this and Microsoft loses its monopoly, just like most your suggestions for Windows 7 above. Microsoft's priority is not making people happy or making a great OS: it's preserving their monopoly by any means necessary, even illegal ones. Nope, we'll see Internet Explorer botch standards-compliant we pages and have its own "special extensions" in the hopes of controlign the web, just so Internet Explorer will be the "only" web browser.

9. Um... shill: Windows DOES waste WAY more than a couple hundred MiB of RAM for itself. Why do you think the RAM requirements for its lackluster visual effects are so outrageous?

8. REALLY don't count on it. Windows doesn't even succesfully get hardware identifiers from USB devices, unlike Linux. Here's a hint, plug a device into Windows and watch as, instead f it being identified as a scanner or tablet, it's classified as a n unknown device. Do the same thing in Linux, it actually WILL identify it as a scanner or tablet. Try typing lspci in your terminal and it'll tell you everything the hardware has to say for itself and then some.

7. Meh. In Linux I can name a much better approach Windows will never have until it abandons that stupid drive letter system: Seperate /home partition. No need to waste GiBs of hard disk space with imaging wherein all I'll need to do is reinstall my Linux and it'll retain my documents and settings, not changing them one whit. Windows Vista doesn't offer it, Windows 7 won't, and not a single future release of Windows will do it.

6. Nope. Definitely won't happen. Microsoft likes offering unwieldly swiss army knives. Their kernel will not improve, it'll only get bigger. You're hopin gMicrosoft will actually STOP acting like Microsoft for the interests of Windows 7. It really won't. Especially with the likes of Steve Ballmer at the helm.

5. That's a bad idea at this point sinc emost software developers haven't gone 64-bit yet, since, again, Windows was late to the 64-bit game. We Linux users can enjoy a nice 64-bit experience, but Windows users got royally screwed.

4. Windows definitely could use this: But since Microsoft is not driven to actually improve their OS, it won't happen. They could have done this over a decade ago. They're just plain not doing it. Likely because Windows won't recognize half your hardware out of the box, if that.

3. Microsoft can't write diagnostic tools. Vista's and XP's were made of so much fail. Microsoft wouldn't be able to tell you what's wrong with it if half its files were missing.

2. Most critics aren't so stupid to be easily impresse by boot/shutdown times. Critics are going after the operating system itself. And unfortunately for Microsoft, Windows is a piece of garbage.

1. HAHAHAHAHA!!! That's like telling every Windows software company to stop doing stupid things. Nope. This won't happen either, since Microsoft has no control over what the software companies do. Most startup items you'll find in Windows are adware or spyware anyway.