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Originally Posted by Adam Krebs
Well, it wasn't *all* horrible. A lot of the advances that we can enjoy (like a re-written desktop window manager) mean that we get live thumbnail previews of running applications, and UAC has resulted in a much safer OS. I think a lot of the good stuff was lost in the reviews and subsequent Vista bashing. That said, there wasn't a whole lot of readily apparent feature reasons to jump to Vista in the first place. A lot of it was under the hood stuff.
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Agreed. My thought was that it was wise to seperate Vista from 7. Let Vista take the lumps during the transition and make a triumphant return with 7.
I'm not saying Microsoft planned to fail, but as a software developer, I understand that making a radical architectural change will have its pain points during the transition. No matter how well you plan. Vista became the sacrificial lamb and 7 was the resurrected savior.
They got to seperate
restructuring and the
value add from a customer perception perspective.