Spotted in Engadget:

Now that Windows 7 has launched into pre-Beta, Microsoft has joined the world in Vista-bashing as they look to differentiate their newest OS from the incumbent. Speaking to its hardware partners at WinHEC, Microsoft is promising faster shutdown and startup times and less power consumption than its beleaguered predecessor despite the two sharing the same code base.

Microsoft is basically saying "wait" to everyone who has XP in production - that Windows 7 will be "Vista, only better". I wonder whether they've learned a lesson about allowing the competition (Apple) to define how the public thinks about a product.

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