WINDOWS 7 Your next OS upgrade?
Sujit John & Shivani Mody | TNN Bangalore: Most of us still use Windows XP, the operating system (OS) that Microsoft first developed way back in 2001. Though the company released Windows Vista in early 2007, few upgraded to it. Vista came with substantially enhanced security features that also lent the system greater stability, helping to avoid the kind of ‘hanging’ and ‘crashing’ that one suffered with previous versions of the OS. But the enhanced features also made Vista so computing-resource hungry that it slowed down all applications. The only way you could make it run well was by substantially upgrading your hardware. That would have meant significant expenditure. And most Indians — consumers and enterprises — thought it just not worth the money. Vista’s failure pushed Microsoft to work quickly towards another version. It’s called Windows 7 and is expected to be commercially launched later this year, may be October 23, as some reports speculate. A beta version has been under