http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2008/05/29/windows-7-features-yeah-sure/ Geek News Central is the technical site for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a Family of Tech Shows and Content. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:38:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2008/05/29/windows-7-features-yeah-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-4008 lapidary Sat, 31 May 2008 05:05:58 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2008/05/29/windows-7-features-yeah-sure/#comment-4008 Microsoft should follow apple on this one: Don't promise anything! Speculation makes good press. Microsoft should follow apple on this one: Don’t promise anything! Speculation makes good press.

]]> http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2008/05/29/windows-7-features-yeah-sure/comment-page-1/#comment-4007 Joshua Jabin Thu, 29 May 2008 18:16:35 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2008/05/29/windows-7-features-yeah-sure/#comment-4007 Improving existing features may seem more important to people who understand the existing features and know how they can be improved, but the majority of people who will be purchasing the new operating system don't know anything about that, and if the only thing that is improved is things that the average user doesn't notice, the average user isn't going to see any reason to upgrade to the new OS. Making obvious changes to the interface are going to give average users a reason to upgrade, even if nothing else is different. Improving existing features may seem more important to people who understand the existing features and know how they can be improved, but the majority of people who will be purchasing the new operating system don’t know anything about that, and if the only thing that is improved is things that the average user doesn’t notice, the average user isn’t going to see any reason to upgrade to the new OS. Making obvious changes to the interface are going to give average users a reason to upgrade, even if nothing else is different.

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