Subject: RE: [CGUYS] Windows 7 > 7 by all reports is no depature at all from Vista. > This was MS's plan for some time, to start releasing > OS's in smaller increments instead of these five > year jumps.
I am out here in sunny LA with 25,000 other sheeplike MS developers at the MS PDC (Professional Developers Conference). You're basically on the money. Win7 looks very much like Vista. There are a lot of changes, but most of them are under the hood. MS has focused on performance and on reducing hardware requirements (Win7 runs satisfactorily on much smaller machines than Vista). From the outside it does not looks much different. That is not to say that there are no enhancements (e.g., UAC is much less intrusive and the task bar bar has been majorly improved with some really neat features.) There is also a lot of emphasis on new stuff that will help developers (e.g., .Net4.0) but that is of only indirect interest to users. So, it looks pretty much like Vista, but it's not Vista ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
