Dear Microsoft, Please shut up about Windows 7. That's so far into the future that any discussion of its features and capabilities is entirely meaningless. A

Dear Microsoft, Please shut up about Windows 7. That's so far into the future that any discussion of its features and capabilities is entirely meaningless. As for Windows 7, please go implement things that are interesting and elegant and useful and desirable, and -- when your set of features is mostly baked and mostly ready to ship -- then and only then tell me about it. Finger-smudge-covered displays and tablets are useful, but far from cool or original. Sure, do copy the cool stuff from other platforms. We know you want to. But you better have some fresh new tools and toys; the new features and tools that make me or any other customer want to drool over and buy and use your platform. And for those few moments while you're not busy working on Windows 7 coolness and getting set to rock my world, how about fixing the mess that is the Vista ecosystem? Using a Windows PC is somewhere between unpleasant and frustrating. This due to the mess that is modern PC design, adware, malware, bloatware, buggy software, proprietary formats and the rest of the stack. Make some room for your partners, too. Oh, and this little Vista mishap will arrive fully fixed and solid and ready for production in Windows 7, too, right? Thanks.