As Vista continues to be taken off the shelves, Windows 7 is helping Microsoft regain some of its respect back. The company have recently announced that is has sold 150 million copies of Windows 7 within its first eight months of sale.
Although it’s looking likely that Windows 7 will soon overtake Vista in sales, Windows XP still dominates the share of the OS market with 58%. Users seem to have continued with XP since its release in 2001 because of it’s stability and reliability, and we should expect it to stay around for the next few years.
What makes Windows 7 different from Vista?
It looks the same, it feels the same, so what makes it different? It’s good.
One of Vista’s most annoying features? User access control.
Do you want to open this? Yes
Are you sure you want to open this? Yes
Are you really sure you want to open this? YES!!
I may be exaggerating slightly and Microsoft did try to improve this, but it’s the lack of annoying “features” like this which have made users want to switch to the Windows 7 OS.
A source of complaint about Vista was the amount of system resources it used. From the gadget filled sidebar to the TaskBar, these have all been replaced with less memory hoarding graphics. Also, after folder locations caused a lot of frustration within Vista, Microsoft have tried to go for a more simpler ‘XP style’ which seems to be a lot more user friendly.
Some features…
The general consent between most Windows users was that Vista was trying too hard to please everyone. They put in every possible feature they could think of, but with this came a large memory usage and a very cluttered OS. With Windows 7, they have gone back to basics and what we are left with is the upgrade Windows XP deserved.
