Linux founder Linus Torvalds talks about Windows 7

Linux founder Linus Torvalds spoke to Computerworld Australia on open source development in a Q&A. While the topics were hardly Microsoft-centric, I found his insights pertaining to Microsoft's new Windows 7 operating system interesting. 

According to Torvalds, Microsoft has come to the realization that the Vista development cycle is way too long; explaining the radically different strategy used with Windows 7 to date. Moving forward though, he suggests that Microsoft should disconnect the development of the core operating system from the applications in order to come out with new releases in a shorter amount of time. Then again, this is Microsoft

However, he does acknowledge that Microsoft has a huge public relations advantage because of the improved performance of the beta of Windows 7 from Windows Vista. Inadvertently, users will relate this with the improvements that Windows 95 brought over Windows 3.1 of yesteryear.

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