Windows 7 To Be Released Next Year? 561
KrispySausage writes "A recently-released roadmap for the next major Window release — Windows 7 — indicates that Microsoft is planning to release the new operating system in the second half of 2009, rather than the anticipated release date of some time in 2010. This quickly-approaching release date would seem to be at least partially verified by news of a milestone build available for review by an anonymous third party." We've previously discussed the upcoming new OS version, as well as its danger to Vista.
Marketing Slogan (Score:4, Funny)
If I were Microsoft (Score:5, Funny)
Re:windows7 (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe it's like Star Trek movies -- only the even numbered ones are good (in this case, odd numbers).
Low memory requirements from ms... (Score:5, Funny)
"The system is very responsive, using barely 480MB of memory after boot."
I've obviously been in *nix land for too long, I'm still of the impression that 256 Mb is pretty much all one needs for most tasks. Even EMACS!
Re:Marketing Slogan (Score:5, Funny)
Re:windows7 (Score:5, Funny)
so it's not like Star Trek at all then?
Windows versioning (Score:5, Funny)
They went from 3.11, to year-based (98), to cheesy acronyms (ME), to acronyms containing the Mighty Letter "X" (XP), to the vaguely multi-cultural (Vista). Now they're going back to whole numbers. All the joy of 3.11, half the perfomance.
They haven't really cribbed Apple's Roman Numeral approach, so let's work with that.
Vista...VII-STA...VII: Something To Avoid.
Re:Marketing Slogan (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Vista's missing features (Score:5, Funny)
they always do. that's why they repeat them so well.
Re:Vista a flop? (Score:5, Funny)
Every MS system had its Fun Pack with great games such as Tetris or Pong and fabulous screensavers like, uh, stuff in colours.
Vista needs a Fun Pack to be awesome.
Re:windows7 (Score:1, Funny)
The movie version is much better (Score:5, Funny)
We'll have
glutinous Bloatware
Sloth
greedy pricing
DRM lustfully controlling all media.
Proud non-interoperability
and mac -envy
oh and you get the wrath, like in the movie ending where you find can't take back what is in "the box" because you opened the EULA.
Balmer will play the Kevin Spacey role.
personally I had to leave the theater.
Re:Low memory requirements from ms... (Score:2, Funny)
"The system is very responsive, using barely 480MB of memory after boot."
This still leaves 640-480=160 MB for Your applications. And when You use memmaker it might even be more, not even mentioning loading windows into Your UMB!
They are just rounding up to "Version 7" (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I figured this would happen (Score:3, Funny)
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Re:Such optimism? (Score:3, Funny)
What about SCO [sco.com]?
Re:Vista's missing features (Score:3, Funny)
As opposed to the not-quite-ready or buggy features that made the integration window for Vista.
Re:Marketing Slogan (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Why is it.... (Score:4, Funny)
As further testament to the genius of Jobs, he then sold all the sleep()'s to the project lead for Vista under the guise of a "technology partnership" contract.
Re:Low memory requirements from ms... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Vista's missing features (Score:5, Funny)
Re:windows7 (Score:4, Funny)
Re:windows7 (Score:3, Funny)
I'd say Windows releases are more like Batman movies, each ones sucks more than the one before until it gets "re-imagined" into a new series (Win2k), which starts the process over (XP, Vista).
Or maybe like Bond movies, where they're all pretty much the same, only the plots get less believable and you're left longing for the "classic" Bond who didn't need insane gizmos to get the job done. Yes, I like that analogy better.
Re:windows7 (Score:3, Funny)
Spel chekurz, preproseserz, leksicul anulizerz, an' sintaktik parserz.
Re:Low memory requirements from ms... (Score:2, Funny)
Back in the day (1988-1990) all of the groovy new RISC workstations (SPARC, MIPS, ARM) (and some non-RISC ones like Amiga and ST) used to ship with 4MB of RAM and 120MB hard disks for running their respective flavours of UNIX.
That was proper multi-user, protected memory, networking and the X-Window system. And there was still enough RAM left over to run emacs.
OK, the last bit was an exaggeration...