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.
Re:Nah, not really (Score:2, Informative)
2-3 years is normal for Windows (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Breaking API compatibilty...release in 1 year? (Score:5, Informative)
http://blog.paulbetts.org/index.php/2008/04/04/dear-dev-corvin/ [paulbetts.org]
This is a short answer from MS employee. Can't be more clear, because entire article was complete bullshit.
Re:2-3 years is normal for Windows (Score:3, Informative)
Re:I find that hard to believe (Score:5, Informative)
Re:2-3 years is normal for Windows (Score:5, Informative)
Meanwhile, Steven Sinofsky was over running the Office 2007 program, which delivered essentially on-time and on-budget, hitting almost all of the goals. (I know a lot of people don't like the interface, but that's a separate point from the project management.) Sinofsky was promoted to oversee Windows development, and inherited the mess left behind by Jim Allchin. The earlier Slashdot article alluding to a complete overhaul of Windows may well be his doing, an attempt to get the focus back where it needs to be in order to not have a fiasco the next time around. We may even finally see the emergence of WFS finally.
Re:did I lose count? Windows "7" ? (Score:1, Informative)
Make that
2001 - Windows XP (5.1)
2003 - Windows XP 64 / Server 2003 (5.2)
or just look at the wikipedia-article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows#Timeline_of_releases [wikipedia.org]
Re:Microsoft: "The whole world is our beta tester. (Score:5, Informative)
I usually try to look for the Win2K/XP directory where the "real driver" is stored, and then point windows to it.
If XP gets the wrong driver and you want to rerecognize the stuff again, just go to control panel and delete the relevant "?" stuff in device manager (the question mark icon for the device indicates it's not properly installed etc).
Most times it's the manufacturers who mess things up.
That said, NEVER install hardware drivers from Windows Update.
Re:Mods on crack again (Score:3, Informative)
Mac OSX is, for all intents and purposes, Linux-like. It includes a BSD-derived kernel, and I can use a lot of standard GNU tools, either direct from Apple or through MacPorts, Fink, etc. But for the sake of argument, lets go through the two definitions of Linux-like
So if your definition of Linux-like uses Linux as a kernel, then yes, OSX is Linux-like because it is basically BSD, which most people admit is Linux-like, as they are both Open Source kernels and Unix-like.
If your definition of Linux-like is using the 'GNU over Linux' definition, then the availability of the GNU tools, the X Windowing System being installed either by default or at least on the install disk, and the existence of tools like Fink and MacPorts seems to imply that, in fact, OSX is Linux-like.
As for the ability to run Windows apps natively, the existence of Parallels and VMWare seem to imply otherwise. Neither of them are emulation, just virtualization, so it would seem to me that they offer native execution of Windows Apps.
And I really hope you don't try to deny that OSX is a professional, commercial OS. Because I might have to laugh if you make that claim.
Actually, you're wrong (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Nah, not really (Score:2, Informative)
Totally off-topic, but if you are going to quote Captain Beefheart in your sig, you ought get the quote right:
"A squid eating dough in a polyethylene bag is fast 'n bulbous, got me?"
Re:Nah, not really (Score:3, Informative)
Yes it is.
Re:I find that hard to believe (Score:4, Informative)