Long Zheng Link Love

I pointed out a couple days ago that much of the available Windows 7 information is broken by a small, group of people including Long Zheng, Paul Thurrott, Ed Bott and Mary Jo Foley.

Here on Shipping Seven we like to give credit where it’s due and to actually source our articles unlike some other websites we could mention. This kind of manual scraping is no better then simply having a bot do it. Re-wording it as if it’s an original piece just makes it worse.

But anyway, enough of that.

Long Zheng just posted up another of his interesting finds with Windows 7 beta testing to be compulsory part of Windows Logo program, effective June 1 2008.

“Vista capable” was a mistake from the start and after the recent law-suits and leaked emails it’s not a mistake Microsoft wishes to make again.

Considering the damage, wether justified or not, done by Vista on the public’s perception of Microsoft multiplied by the smug “I’m a Mac, I’m a PC” campaign it’s a priority that a level of trust be restored to Microsoft’s image.

Customers have a need to ensure compatibility with the new releases of the OS and that hardware (systems and devices) are fully functional after an upgrade. This will enable Microsoft and partners to evaluate the results and correct issues in the new OS and the associated hardware as part of the release plan.

Considering the fact that one of the Windows 7 pillars is already to significantly improve performance and that there will be no major device or driver changes we can expect few compatibility or performance problems with Windows 7. In fact PC’s capable of running Windows Vista today should run faster with an upgrade to Windows 7 in 2009 or 10. No promises of course.