Okay, I have seen some of the different ideas as to why this next release of the Microsoft Desktop Operating System should and should not be called Windows 7. The real question to me is what happened at Microsoft between XP and Vista? If you look at the release timeline of past releases, you’ll see roughly 2 years pass from version to version. A bit too long if you ask me but that is not the point here. From XP’s release to Vista’s release there was a 5 year gap. Now it is true that the then “Longhorn” came and disappeared in the development process, but that doesn’t explain to me where all that development time went. Maybe Microsoft’s internal management and bureaucracy is so bloated and stagnant that all they had to show for those years of coding was Vista. ugh!
My guess here is that an internal political struggle ended up wasting vast amounts of time and money on the behalf of Microsoft and also put it in a position of playing catchup to Apple’s comeback in consumer electronics and to Google’s Internet explosion. I think this political mess has possibly ended up putting the “lucky 7″ behind the Windows name in order to help consumers forget about the negatives of the past year but hopefully it has been able to redirect its focus on development. Windows 7 sounds like it is getting some good attention to its development process, but Microsoft is still not focusing enough on its core in my opinion, but then again nobody asked me.
