Microsoft’s Windows 7: One Year On

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1. Microsoft made a gamble that Windows 7 would help revive the company's revenue and erase memories of Vista. One year later, sales suggest it won. Microsoft was in a bad state last summer, just as its teams were putting the finishing touches on Windows 7. The global recession had battered the company’s revenues. Windows Vista, the company’s previous operating system, seemed stigmatised in the wake of bad reviews and user complaints. If Windows 7 died in the marketplace, chatter would start that Microsoft’s best days were far behind. “The truth is that the operating system is irrelevant now,” Salesforce.com Marc Benioff said in a statement released before the Windows 7 launch. “It’s about the cloud-cloud applications for consumers and businesses, and cloud platforms like Force.com, Amazon Web Services, and Google App Engine.” (Read Full Article)

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