Microsoft doesn’t want to let any part of its market uncovered so after focusing on consumers it changed its consideration to enterprises. Most businesses use Windows XP and many of them downgraded to XP from Vista, but Microsoft plans to redeem its reputation with the new operating system: Windows 7. 

 

Microsoft’s Windows department has urged enterprises to test Windows 7 and send feedback on how to make the operating system better and more suitable to their needs. Windows Vista taught Microsoft a very valuable lesson: customers want to be involved in the development of the OS. 

 

Microsoft took six months to go through what Gavriella Schuster, senior director for Windows Product Management, called a “vision phase.” During that phase, Microsoft was very focused on real-world business scenarios and this change of strategy led to the integration of features such as BitLocker, AppLocker and Direct Access in the Windows 7 Enterprise SKU. 

 

"With Windows 7, we changed the way we developed the Windows OS in order to be more responsive to that feedback," Schuster wrote in a post on The Windows Blog. 

 

Schuster said Microsoft received more than 500,000 Send Feedback reports for the Windows 7 Beta and its development team has been working on hundreds of fixes as “a testament” on how Microsoft is taking its customers’ feedback and inputting it into the new OS. 

 

The Microsoft executive said that the development of Windows 7 is on track in the company will launch it, as promised, within three years of Windows Vista’s release.