Forget About Windows Vista Aero, Windows 7 UI Coming

With Windows Vista and the Office 2007 System, Microsoft has really indicated a strong evolution for the traditional graphical user interfaces that have shipped, in the past, with previous iterations of the Windows and Office products. As far as the Windows client is concerned, the Aero GUI has not been the hit Microsoft hoped for. While still being an immense step forward from what Windows XP brought to the table, the issues of hardware resource consumption is in fact what really hurt Aero, prompting critics to downplay the user interface overhauling in Vista. At the same time, while
Office 2007 introduced a more radical redesign with the Ribbon/Fluent interface, the shift from Office 2003 was welcomed, unlike the mode from the XP UI to Aero.

And of course that the company is, by no means, stopping here. In fact, with Vista, and soon Windows Server 2008 and Vista SP1, out of the way, focus will fall on Windows 7. At this point in time, Microsoft has only revealed that Windows 7 is planned for availability in 2010, and it will be 2010 as Steven Sinofsky, Senior Vice President, Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, the man in charge of the Windows project, has a reputation for meeting deadlines. Of course that one of the major aspects of Windows 7 will be its new graphical user interface. And the efforts that the company has done with Vista will be repeated with Windows 7. In this context, Manuel Clement,
Experience Design & Research Lead, Microsoft offered a preview of where the company is heading with the development of next generation of graphical user interfaces in the coming five years, in an interview with Microsoft Expression.

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