[PDelaney]

Windows 7 is due out in 2010 and I thought when I first tried Vista that it was an incomplete operating system just as Windows Millennium was a hybrid stopgap between Windows 98 and XP. Vista is not a replacement for XP, it's not an upgrade either, there is nothing it does better or more efficiently, in fact the opposite is true in many cases. Why change from a system that works to one that doesn't and requires almost twice the resources in order to fail? Releasing it showed a great deal of arrogance on Microsoft's part who, totally out of touch with their customer's requirements, believed it would sell just because it was the latest version of Windows.

Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president for the Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, said recently that Microsoft realized it shouldn't forge ahead on Windows 7 and deliver an operating system unsupported by partners' hardware or software.

So will Windows 7 be the new XP?

I doubt it