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Microsoft says Windows Vista critics who claim its recent Mojave Experiment is a thinly veiled Vista marketing/damage control effort are wrong, and that it has the video to prove it. Last month, Microsoft gathered a focus group of XP users and told them they were getting a sneak peek at the next version of Windows, code-named Mojave. Users were asked to give their impressions of several Mojave demos, which were largely positive. Later, users were informed that the OS they’d just seen was actually Windows Vista.
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Businesses may have been slow to adopt Microsoft Windows Vista, but expect that to change by late 2008 to 2009, according to a Forrester Research report led by Benjamin Gray, published last week.The new report, “Corporate Desktop Operating System Trends, Q4 2007 Through Q2 2008,” takes a slightly more favorable view of Microsoft’s flagship operating system than a previous Forrester report on the subject by Thomas Mendel. Forrester’s earlier report said that Vista had been “rejected” by the enterprise crowd.
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Twenty-one months after its initial release, what do we know about Windows Vista? That home users hate it, businesses are uninstalling it and — according to Gartner Inc. — it’s proof that the 23-year-old Windows line is “collapsing” under its own weight.
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Microsoft Corp.’s head of engineering for the Windows 7 operating system said there are 25 “feature teams” of about 100 employees each working on the upcoming replacement to Windows Vista. Windows 7 teams work on anything from external features, such as user interfaces, to under-the-hood areas such as networking, according to Steven Sinofsky, Microsoft senior vice president for Windows and Windows Live engineering, in a Monday posting at the new “Engineering Windows 7″ blog.
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