With the launch of Windows Vista Microsoft is spreading around the news of yet another launch of Windows 7 by 2009, the news is picking up so much pace that recently a Hoax version of Windows 7 was found over all major torrent sites and those who downloaded found out later that it was just a cute joke.

So far the Windows 7 launch might turn out to be a good strategy, Microsoft Windows Vista didnt do much good to the version, its supper heavy interface too many of Security Alerts and still a bit unstable image didnt go well with the Windows Vista. Though one thing is quite clear and seems quite clean that the Microsoft Windows 7 will be a version of Microsoft Vista with the same functionality, same enhancements just wrapped around a better packing and new marketing campaign.

In Mid of 2007 i switch to Windows Vista as it came pre installed with my laptop, initially windows Vista didn’t perform at any standards, yes the initial looks were good, with shinny bar’s, desktop widgets, wallpapers themes, icons but the problems was that it was very slow in performance, it used to get hang the compute with IE7 and when i started using it i happend to find ouw how bad it sucks in performance.

But with a little support of a technical friend  i ripped off all the junk pre installed softwares, installed Firefox, OpenOffice, and switched the setting to high performance removing all the shinney bar and my problems got solved.

Now whats next we got to see is what will be Windows 7 and IE 8 going to be like on which i will add in my next post.

With the web evolving at a very high speed do we really need an operating system or do we only need a web browser? If i look at the my web activity and my desktop activity what is the one thing that i use more then anything else i would say a web browser.

Years back we used to use our desktop to process documents (using Microsoft Office) we used to check our e-mails(using Microsoft Outlook) we used to chat with friends (using MSN messenger, ICQ, AOL), we used to manage our photo galleries into folders, listened the music on winamp. But things have changed now everything we used to do offline is online, we have broadband internet to access our online applications, we use google docs to process our documents, we use gmail to check all our e-mails, we use meebo to get in touch with our friends(on gtalk, msn, aol, yahoo messenger), we use flickr to manage our pictures, we use YouTube to watch our videos, we use wikipedia to access our encyclopedia & we use last.fm to listen to our music. Do we Really need a Microsoft Windows ?

If i talk in terms of web developers and engineers yes at some level we do need linux or Windows, but if i talk in terms of general people, who use the computer in there daily activity they don’t need a full fledged OS with 1000’s of pre installed applications, spend ridiculous amount of money on softwares, firewalls, anti virus and worry all the time about the computer crashing and loosing there data.

Keeping this in view on 7th January 2008 goS (Green Operating System) lacunches.

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