The lighter, and darker, sides to Windows 7

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May 29, 20081 min

While Microsoft is finally giving IT a welcome glimpse of what will Windows 7 will look like, it’s hard not to be cautions about one feature in particular: Windows Advisor.

The tool, currently in beta, will tell users the source of their OS problems.

“Excuse my cynicism, but given the seemingly endless user complaints about Vista, you’ve got to think that Microsoft would like to deflect some of that blame,” Bill Snyder writes in this installment of Tech’s bottom line.