WINDOWS SURFACES

摘要

The Siamese fighting fish that has graced the desktop of beta versions of Windows 7 has come to symbolize Microsoft's latest operating system for many developers. Like the betta fish itself, Windows 7 is hardly the biggest marauder in the sea. As prominent industry blogger and Redmond magazine columnist Mary Jo Foley notes: "Windows 7 is basically-in spite of Microsoft's claims-a minor update. It is Vista, fixed."rnFor developers and beta testers, the released to manufacturing (RTM) of Windows 7 in September marked an overdue watershed. It has taken three years and untold millions of dollars in lost sales and additional development, but Microsoft has finally launched the successor to Windows XP. The question now is, will developers flock to it?