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OPERATING SYSTEMS
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,...