Windows 7 has a number of new features not found in prior versions, including Wireless Setup, HomeGroup, Multi-touch, Internet TV and PlayTo. Multi-touch has already been deployed in a number of systems, most notable being HP that has added touch screen capabilities to a recent line of desktop PCs.
The timing is coincidental but fortunate that both Intel and AMD are migrating more CPUs to 64-bit architectures around the same time as Microsoft is introducing Windows 7.
All new consumer PCs are pre-installed with Windows 7. Enterprises that were slow to convert to Windows Vista will migrate faster to Windows 7, he says.
Windows 7 has improvements in memory management to allow users to have a better experience than with Vista on PCs with similar or even slightly lower specifications, says Michael Silver, vice-president and analyst at Gartner.
“It adds other features of interest to organisations, as well as to consumers. It is important for Microsoft to get off to a good start with Windows 7 to build momentum and put the problems of Vista behind it.”
“The Windows 7 release will generate renewed interest in hardware upgrades in consumers and small businesses following its release, but corporate demand is not expected to gain momentum until the end of 2010,” says Charles Smulders, managing vice-president at Gartner.
“An overdue PC hardware upgrade cycle, and the economic environment will be as equally important as Windows 7 in determining final demand in 2010.”
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