10 Reasons Why the Windows 7 Upgrade Is Unlike Any Other

10 Reasons Why the Windows 7 Upgrade Is Unlike Any Other

The Whole (Microsoft Windows) Enchilada

This is the first time the server side applications and the client side applications are all being updated at the same time.

Storm Clouds?

This is the first time a really new computing model—cloud computing—is demanding that Microsoft can show it can play well with others.

Google in the Rear View Mirror

This the first time that a big new competitor—Google—is creating a new operating system to be available within twelve months of the new Windows.

Wheres Bill?

This will be the first Windows client operating system introduced following Bill Gates retirement.

A Clean, Well Lighted Place

This is the first Windows client that will tout simplicity instead of complexity based on a NASA level programming effort.

Secure by Design

This is the first client where security will take prominence over touting backward compatibility.

All Together Now

This is the first time that an economic recovery, an aging IT infrastructure and a vendor community anxious to spur sales and a range of new processor chips will all play to the Microsoft upgrade theme song.

Zero Price Competition

This is the first time that there are really good, mature free operating system competitors to Microsoft.

A Healthy Apple

This is the first time that a healthy Apple is setting the consumer agenda in lots of areas where Microsoft would like to play.

Vista? Never Heard of It

This will be the first time that Microsoft’s major competitor is not the previous Microsoft operating system but an operating system—XP—introduced in October 2001.