User complaints of major performance problems in Windows Vista and IE7 hurt Microsoft's reputation, which the company hopes to repair with its next-gen releases

By Elizabeth Montalbano, IDG News Service

August 28, 2008

 Fixing performance issues that have plagued previous versions of its Windows client OS and Internet Explorer (IE) browser are key development goals for the next versions of those products, Microsoft has revealed in company blogs. IE 7 and Windows Vista have had serious performance problems early on that have 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.  [InfoWorld...]   [Comments...]