This week was the 6^th annual All Things Digital, Microsoft’s Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer was there to take questions on various things, such as, why Microsoft failed to acquire Yahoo, and Windows Vista. But that wasn’t only thing that they were doing, Microsoft also was introducing the next version of Windows called Seven. They did not show much about Seven only the new features they added. They also demoed this; you can view the video at http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080528-windows-7-demo-all-multitouch-and-no-meat.html

Windows Vistas had a huge amount of public build-up as with Seven, Microsoft has kept Seven pretty quite for the most part. There has been non-stop talk about Vista since 2003 till 2006, as well all know it now, Vista didn’t deliver all the Promised features during its extended development. Because of this with the widespread of negative perception, hurt both Microsoft and Windows brands. Microsoft is keeping Windows Seven quite due to this problem. Microsoft wants to deliver all the features promised in Windows 7 and Promise that it will ship everything in late 2009/early 2010.

The demonstration of Windows Seven wasn’t what people hoped for at D6 (All Things Digital). The main feature that was being shown was the “Multitouch” screen that apparently Seven will have. It’s same technology as Microsoft Surface table and Apple’s iPhone. Microsoft demonstrated the Photo Scaling, Finger Painting, Splashing about in the water, and a Google earth style mapping program. The demo however did appear that the Taskbar in Windows Seven has changed but people asked the demonstrator questions about the new Taskbar and he replied “It’s something we’re working on for Windows 7 that I’m not suppose to talk about right now.”

Microsoft is known for the Tablet/Touch screens computing operation systems, but do we need another one? Said consumers, for small form factors this will be a plus but for desktop or laptop PC, there is no benefits. We would have to buy a lot of screen cleaners just to clean the finger prints off. We would also need a special screen that would work with Windows 7. Consumers said Microsoft better pull of something really killer that will blow peoples minds to justify the cost. Microsoft is however saying that this new release of Windows is going to have a much better view on hardware and will be able to work with some older hardware and not have to worry about drivers for it. It will be much more compatible than Vista, but only time will tell. Windows Seven is supposed to be a very efficient operating system.

My response:

Well I think this cool and not cool. Do we really need another touch screen operating system? No we have enough of them and there not always the best seller. What is Microsoft thinking? I do look cool that you can finger paint and play in the water with out using a tablet but why would you want to. For mobile devices it would be ideal but for Desktop PCs it doesn’t make any sense to this. I think Microsoft should make a separate release that has this new technology called ‘Multitouch” into like a Windows 7: Tablet Edition” or something like that. I’m hoping that the features we all wanted in Vista will be in the next release of Windows. If anyone was wondering why they are calling the next version of Windows ‘Seven” its because Windows Vista was the Version 6 of the Windows NT Platform. So Windows Seven is the version 7 of the Windows NT Platform.

YAY! For the last current event! J