By Elizabeth Montalbano; Eric Lai November 3, 2008
Microsoft Corp. last week publicly demonstrated Windows 7 for the first time, and company executives said that the planned operating system upgrade will reflect lessons learned from the rollout of Windows Vista. In a speech at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles, Windows development chief Steven Sinofsky said that some of the criticism targeted at the vendor over Vista was deserved. Sinofsky acknowledged that Microsoft hadn't fully prepared its business partners for Vista's release, which resulted in incompatible applications and a lack of hardware drivers. It won't repeat that mistake with Windows 7, he said. Microsoft also plans to modify its User Account Control security feature in Windows 7 so the tool is less disruptive than it is in Vista. Sinofsky said the company "went a little too far with UAC" in Vista, which can hit even authorized users with frequent pop-up windows containing security prompts and notices.
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