Windows 7 in the Next Year? 385
Microsoft's efforts to get businesses to adopt Vista may come to a screeching halt now that Bill Gates has announced "Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version", referring to Windows 7, the next expected version of the company's flagship desktop operating system.With a new version available soon, many organizations may decide to wait and see if they can avoid the pain of a Vista rollout altogether.
Nah, not really (Score:5, Funny)
This means (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Nah, not really (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Nah, not really (Score:0, Funny)
Windows 7 overlords (Score:3, Funny)
We're trying as fast as we can to reach that Earth planet we were talking about recently, but our board computer we upgraded to Windows Vista, crashed several times, which resulted our ship to be put for few years on Uranus orbit, so we won't be able to reach that Earth planet before the what earthlings call year 2011.
Thanks for understanding,
Forever yours,
Windows 7 overlords.
Re:Ground up (Score:5, Funny)
That's about as likely as getting 9 women to have a baby in one month.
New distribution method for new OS (Score:5, Funny)
Re:I find that hard to believe (Score:5, Funny)
Will "Vista Reloaded" be again a hit?! I suppose we'll have to wait and see.
Re:Nah, not really (Score:4, Funny)
Support the company? Besides, they make great gifts.
Microsoft imitating Apple, perhaps? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:I find that hard to believe (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Brilliant actually (Score:1, Funny)
The triple dip, Brilliant.
Re:Microsoft: "The whole world is our beta tester. (Score:3, Funny)
Or maybe I'm paying off the wrong witchdoctor.
Understanding Windows release cycles. (Score:3, Funny)
Windows 3.1, 98, XP, and whatever Win7 will be named are much better.
Windows 3.11, 98 OSR2, XP SP2, and Win7 + Whatever it's 2nd service release will be named are/will be good.
95/98 are version 4.XX, ME/XP is the 5.XX series (although ME reports itself as 4.9), Vista is 6.0; and "Win7" will probably effectivly be 6.XX, even if it reports as 7.0
Each new series introduces new APIs for Driver and Application developers; the later releases depricate old API's, while refining the newer ones, so the earlier releases of a series have buggy new APIs mixed with obsolete APIs.
As an example, Windows Media Player is still 32 bit on Vista 64 bit; I would guess that is because Codecs are in-process
Windows 7 will be released after application and driver developers have had time to get used to 64 bitness, along with IPv6, DirectX 10 (Which allows GPU preemtive multitasking.), etc. etc. it will be a lot more stable, and can reduce support for older APIs (from the 16 bit era, just as ME/XP dropped a lot of support for DOS applications); but I suspect a lot of unexpected things will be dropped to improve security (for example, in Vista, you can't drag-n-drop into a Command Prompt window, I read this was to prevent security issues)
So, Vista SP1 should fix the 'critical' problems with Vista; Win7 will correct some design flaws, and be more consistant, Win7 +Service packs will have both design fixes and then the critical fixes to those design changes... then everyone will absolutly hate Windows 8.
Re:I want these feature please... (Score:3, Funny)
Sounds good, but remember, the average windows users' session last 2.3 years. Laptops? 4.8. Hell most users only log off when the power goes out.