Microsoft has been eager to showcase over the past year or two the fundamental changes to the core of the Windows operating system in its next version of Windows. This is because Vista, arguably one of Microsoft's larger failures, was considered less of a core change to the Windows operating system when it was the successor to Windows XP.

Still today, in much of the IT community, and even within our own Arizona web design company Webflo Studios, the strengths and failures of Windows Vista are argued about. I won't go into the specifics about why Vista was considered by many to be a dud, only that the perception of a good majority of professionals and populace at large thought so. Microsoft conceded this point by the act of continued support for XP, releasing its third service pack for XP in April of 2008. In fact several of the features added to XP in that service pack were previously only available on Windows Vista.

This is why Microsoft is trying to champion its new simply named Windows 7 as a new, built from the ground up, core changes operating system. It has features and changes that on the surface look very similar to Windows Vista, but underneath the hood there are many changes to the core architecture of the operating system. A few of the new features include easier networking control for home networks, faster searching, and a more streamlined multimedia library system. Such features could improve the ease of use for everyone, from an Arizona web design company like us, to the casual computer user.

Currently Windows 7 is slated for release in the 2009 Christmas shopping season. Time will tell whether it is this time received positively or again with scorn.