The Week in ‘7’ – Oct. 7 – 10. 2008.
Here is a recap of the week in Windows 7 news and views:
Will Windows 7 Get a Final Moniker? Ed Bott ask
Windows 7 is having persons asking questions about its real name or identity. Ed Bott brings up the topic of whether Microsoft will keep 7 as the final name, which I personally don’t have a problem with, but as Ed notes, this will bring about compatibility issues for applications, unless developers utilize the Windows 7 testing cycle resolve any issues if it is incremented to NT 7.0 by PDC 2008.
Will current SKU strategy continue for Windows 7?
Ed Bott brought up the topic of Windows 7’s moniker, now fellow ZDNET colleague Adrian Kingsley-Hughes brings up the important issue of Microsoft’s marketing of the product. Will Windows 7 continue to carry the same amount of SKU’s as Windows Vista? The strategy has received a lot of backlash, persons note that it confuses users from making the right choice. Then again, the purpose of so many editions of Vista was to make buying the right version Windows for your needs easier. Looks like a lot of us never got that message.
Windows 7 M3 Build 6801 – Winfuture.de
German Windows Enthusiast website WinFuture.de seems to have some close friends at Microsoft. They have posted what appears to be 3 galleries of new Windows 7 M3 Build 6801 screenshots. It is not known if this new update could possibly be the build distributed at Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference later this month. Just last month, THINKNEXT posted the first update in months of Windows 7 show casing new technologies the OS is incubating.
UAC under Windows 7 – Expect Improvements
Caught this over at Mary Jo Foleys All About Microsoft Blog. It seems that Microsoft has gotten a mouthful on the security feature UAC in Vista (which actually had a lot of good intentions). So the folks on the Windows Team are working to make it a more palatable experience in the next release, Windows 7. The focus is to make it more informative and less repetitive. I think these are good points, because a lot of prompts don’t give a clear understanding why a location requires permission before proceeding. The concept of UAC is that when an Application triggers it, that means it wants access to critical part of the system that needs to be written to.
Maximized windows in Windows 7
Taking a further peek at the leaked screenshots of Windows 7 M3 Build 6801 over at WinFuture, I noticed something that was confirmed at Windows 7 Engineering Blog. Window frames when fully maximized will retain their Aero Color, so if you select Red or Green as your window color, when a window is maximized, you will continue to see the color in the Title bar. I have my views on this change, first of all, I think its good that colors will retain appearance (fidelity), but for persons like me who prefer to keep the Aero Glass transparent, its going to be a bit distracting.
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