Microsoft's lower than expected second quarter results underline the software giant's failure to convince business users to upgrade to Windows Vista, according to analyst Gartner.
Only a few years ago, trying to get one operating system to run another was an excruciating task. The original process, called emulation, enabled Windows to run Linux, for example, but the overhead of emulating a whole operating system in software was prohibitive.
Microsoft chief executive officer Steve Ballmer unveiled the first widely available public beta of Windows 7, earlier today at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.