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Originally Posted by David M
What would make most sense for the public is for Microsoft to go back to refining XP. From a profit motive, it makes perfect sense for Microsoft to come out with a new OS about every three to five years....even if there are only minor differences between them. It reminds me of when Detroit used to have a new model car every single year.
Its obvious what Microsoft is doing and I think the public has become aware of it and has decided they are not going to play the "new and improved" game any longer. Because although it may have a new label on the box, its clearly not all that improved, if at all.
Will System 7 be better than XP?...not significantly. People already know this and are not going to play Microsoft's game when they do release release System 7.
Its the classic case of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. "Look how great our new OS is!" ...its not great at all. Its your rehashed old system plus new bugs and incompatibilities...that's all. ..and its going to take two service packs to make it almost as good as your last OS was after two service packs.
My prediction is that this time around, people are once again not going to be standing outside the doors of Best Buy at midnight. People WILL be waiting until XP no longer runs the software that then need to run on their computers, and then they will hesitantly buy System 7 out of necessity.
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Well said, David.
I've been running MS operating systems since the early 1980's
with DOS and each time a new OS came out I was happy to
make upgrade and adjust to the new way of doing things.
However, this all changed with Vista. Vista was the first OS
that MS released that did not offer great enhancements over
the previous OS. In my opinion the GUI got worse.
What is happening to MS Windows is also happenig with many
other applications, where programs are so well developed that
they don't need much improvement, but the SW companies
won't accept that fact and wind up overdeveloping the SW
to the point where it becomes bloated with features that
most people don't even need.
The simple fact might be that the gravy train is over for
many well developed software applications. Sure there's
always room for some imporvement, so they may get away
with minor version upgrades at dramatically reduced costs,
but the age may be ending where we need whole new
versions of our favorite OS or applications every few years.
Compound those issues with a failing economy and we can
predict what is coming in the future for many SW companies.
I expect to see a downsizing of many SW companies over
the next decade. It's already beginning to happen with MS.
---pete---