The Microsoft snowball going downhill?

This may just be one man’s view into the future, but I’m not looking foward to the future of Windows.

Why?

Well, it’s not to say Windows will be bad. Vista is actually pretty good compared to XP. But I’m more worried of Windows 7.

With predicted release dates for Windows 7 as early as late 2009, are we looking at another rushed product? The same rush we saw for Vista? Cut the features and get it out earlier just to stop the whiny babies.

I think Microsoft has to really do a few things with Windows 7, and future version of Windows to stop themselves from shooting their feet too many times.

1. Take your time. A late product is bad. A rushed product ill-received and buggy is worse.
2. Be frank with these people. Don’t be afraid to tell the business world to cool their jets. They’ve already sunk in too much time and money to just switch overnight to another OS.
3. Tell the people that if they want a better product they have to give proper feedback. Send out random surveys, or advertise some surveys on your site, anything to get the average Joe talking.
4. Don’t focus only on big name resellers like Best Buy, or Dell. Many of their customers are the kind that buy a machine, and every time something bad happens, they blame Windows. I know because I’ve converted many away from those companies AND that notion. Listen to your small and medium resellers/OEMs.

The Windows Mojave experiment was a great idea. Now learn from it. Teasers are great for creating hype. Image if they did the promotion for Vista like they did for Mojave, just on a larger scale. If people knew how good Vista is, you’d be seeing people lined up outside every computer store. Manage your photos better and share files easier between networked PCs? I get those questions more often than you think!