Microsoft has outlined its plans to make the experience of setting up a PC running Windows 7 for the first time much quicker and easier. The company has said that it wants to create a better balance between the 'out-of-the-box experience' and the configuration options that a customer has when using Windows 7, the operating system Microsoft plans to launch in 2010.
Writing in the Windows 7 blog, Steven Sinofsky, senior vice president of Windows and Windows Live Engineering Group, said that giving customers numerous configuration options during the setting-up process of Windows 7 was the wrong approach.
"Our context for the out-of-box experience would be that we don't want to introduce complexity there, where customers are least interested in dealing with it as they want...
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