What's next?
Of course, Microsoft still can't please all the people, all of the time, and there was a fair bit of grumbling from some veteran journalists, along the lines of how difficult it was to upgrade to Win 7 from an XP system. Yet, as a Microsoft executive pointed out, many XP machines are almost 10 years old and people don't often complain about how difficult it is to put a new engine in an old car!
There were, however, also mutters about the fact one could not upgrade seamlessly from Vista Premium to Windows 7 Home edition, or other such 'downgrades'.
Microsoft also brushed off questions about Windows 8, with Highfield joking "Let us try and sell a copy or two of Windows 7 before we start thinking about Windows 8!"
On the whole, however, the Microsoft executives at the London launch conveyed their feelings that everything had gone infinitely better than Vista's ill fated birth, even adding that OEMs had been happier working with the firm this time around. Dell, reportedly, even told Microsoft that the time the two firms had spent working together on Windows 7 had been the "best working relationship" the two had ever enjoyed together.
