Next Windows to get better start
Seattle PI | at | by Mike
Microsoft unveiled a series of improvements Wednesday to what it called the "fundamentals" in its next operating system, Windows 7, including better battery life for laptops and faster boot-up time, when compared with its previous operating system, Windows Vista.
The announcements came as Microsoft tries to avoid the missteps that plagued Vista's debut.
At the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference in Los Angeles, Jon DeVaan, senior vice president of the company's Windows Core Operating System Division, told hardware makers set to receive early versions of Windows 7 at the conference that Microsoft would make sure they were ready when the new operating system arrives on the market.