Windows 7 Launch Success in Doubt

by daily news online on 08:27 in computer and laptop

On Thursday launch event for Microsoft Windows, 7 had finished in New York. It was very launched simple launch, unlike XP and Vista launch. This shows that the companies are not spending too much launch and may be spending the same to money to do other marketing activities or making a stronger distribution network. In this launch, Microsoft is more concentrated on providing useful and unique features to media/customers by showing videos, photos. Microsoft had not talked on security, stability, compatibility of this OS.

Microsoft had not talked on security, stability, compatibility of this OS.

Windows 7 launch was not an exciting, but still, Microsoft has many hopes on their new OS. Forrester Research shows that 66% of people want to upgrade their existing OS to Windows 7. In that report, nearly 50% of people said they did not have definite plans as to when that upgrade would happen and rest will upgrade till mid-2010.

Chris Liddell, Microsoft's CFO on Friday optimistically said "We are staying reasonably cautious about the [business PC] upgrade cycle; certainly we expect it to begin next year, but we talk about it spreading maybe over a couple of years so I would like to think that we would start to see much better business PC numbers year-over-year next calendar year,"

Though the company officials are very enthusiastic about the success of Windows 7 market has some different views on that. According to an article written by Brisbane Times; people are not worried about the operating system they were used, they are more bothered about the applications and software on which they want to perform a particular function. Moreover, some people will not upgrade to Windows 7 as pirated software will run on that. On the other side of coin PC World and CNET reviewing positively on Windows 7 and also recommending their readers.