In the World

After the hilarious marketing failure that was Windows Vista, Microsoft seems to have once again realized that customers really do matter.

Enter Windows 7.

Windows XP (eXPerience) was wildly successful for Microsoft, correcting much of the bad will it inflicted upon its user base through Windows ME (MillEnium), Microsoft’s less-than-inspiring followup to the excellent Windows 95/98 product chain.

And here and here are the interesting bits of Win7 news I stumbled across today while attempting to recover from a week of vacation.

Built-in virtualization? Who does Microsoft think they are? Apple? I will admit, though, that Classic was a brilliant idea on Apple’s part, and they managed to execute it pretty well (not flawlessly, mind you, but well).

I guess it’s time to fire up another VirtualBox instance and try out the latest Windows 7 beta.