Company has uphill battle in raising performance bar, particularly with Windows 7, says one analyst

(IDG News Service) Fixing performance issues in Microsoft's Windows desktop operating system and Internet Explorer browser are key development goals for the next versions of those products, according to Microsoft company blogs.

Serious performance problems with IE7 and Windows Vista early on alienated users and damaged the reputations of the products. Some IE users switched to Mozilla Firefox because of IE 7's frequent crashes and performance glitches, while Vista's bugs, incompatibility problems and other issues have been well documented.

Microsoft is paying close attention to performance in Windows 7 and IE 8 as it develops both products, the company revealed in dedicated blogs about each product, "Engineering Windows 7" and "IEBlog."

"We've re-dedicated ourselves to work in this area (performance) in Windows 7 (and IE 8)," says the Windows 7 post. "This is a major initiative across each of our feature teams. ..."

The company has an uphill battle to improving performance, particularly with Windows 7, said one analyst...........


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