Windows Vista Quietly Fading Away

Windows Vista Quietly Fading Away: "

No one is talking about Windows Vista anymore and I find myself posting more about Windows 7 than Windows Vista. In the office I was surprised last friday when my colleague burned 12 copies of Windows 7 and gave everyone on my team an installer. Ok, we all have MSDN accounts and we are legally downloading the installation of Windows 7 from MSDN and every team member who have received the installation disk needs to request our own individual license for our own accounts.

Anyways, as most of these colleagues are still running Windows XP and have never installed Windows Vista and all of a sudden there is an urge to install Windows 7. Microsoft itself is no longer defending, spending advertising money or talking about Windows Vista. The focus right now is the pending release to consumers of Windows 7 on October 22.

Microsoft Windows Vista looks to be fading away quietly and people don’t seem to notice of it’s demise. The software giant is riding high on the very good publicity that Windows 7 is getting especially after they have released the public betas months back.

Windows XP has more focus right now than Vista and companies, users are evaluating whether they are going to replace the operating system with Microsoft’s latest. If you can recall more than a year back, reports were circulating that Microsoft has warned of waiting for the successor of Vista saying that an upgrade from Windows XP to Windows (after Vista) is going to be more problematic than making the success from XP to Vista to the next operating system (Windows 7 now).

I think Microsoft Vista’s timing was all wrong because for one it was released way too late, more than five years after XP’s release. The consumer market was used to seeing a new operating system every two years or so and the long wait turned very loyal users to XP. The release of Vista was plagued with lots of problems combined with the slumping economy, Microsoft had the recipe for failure.

Microsoft has corrected these things in Windows 7, they have speed up the process where the operating system has the speed of Windows XP and the power of Windows Vista. The timing is just right being released just 3 years after the release of Windows Vista, and the economy while still in slump has no choice since XP which is installed in majority is reaching it’s 10 year and users have the urge to move on.

As time goes on and after the release of Windows 7, we might no longer see inquiries, questions, reports or mentions of Windows Vista. And I myself would be rethinking whether to focus purely on Windows 7 instead which is most likely going to happen.

How about you? Are you moving fast to Windows 7?