Microsoft published a press release today in which they took a look at the reactions from developers and professionals that attended the Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles last month. Although the majority of the press release addressed Windows Azure some passages referred to Windows 7.
About the reception of Windows 7..
Windows 7 received a similar reception – plenty of enthusiasm, and some caveats. Uniformly, developers like the new features round in Windows 7, as well as its speed. “Things like mounting virtual hard drives – we were just drooling over that,” says [attendee] Huckaby. Adds [attendee] Rigsby: “I installed the pre-beta (the third build, handed out at PDC) and was surprised at how stable it is. And it seems very, very fast. And I like a lot of the UI stuff, the multi-monitor support, and the DirectX improvements.”
Huckaby, for his part, was disappointed to see that some of the features on the Windows 7 beta did not match what had been demo’d during the second morning session. And there are concerns as to whether the final product will be all that has been promised. “When we saw Vista, no one wondered whether it would be a functional OS with great features,” says Hynds. “But what we found is that it wasn’t fast or stable enough. If Windows 7 is stable, then we should be in good shape.”
The second part does contain criticism which mainly centers around Microsoft’s decision to showcase a more advanced version than the one that was handed out to the attendees of the conference.
