More Indications Windows 7 Is Coming In 2009 369
An anonymous reader writes "Following on the news that Microsoft was going straight to a RC for Windows 7, the One Microsoft Way blog has put together some dates on the upcoming roadmap for Vista's successor. Microsoft has always said 'three years after the general availability of Windows Vista,' which was released on January 30, 2007, and that the release date was also dependent on quality. Internally though, Microsoft is saying other things. It looks like we'll see the RC coming in April, and a final RTM version before October 3. Yes, that means Redmond is currently hoping to get Windows 7 out the door in 2009."
RTFM? (Score:2, Funny)
So finally Windows will start telling the users to RTFM, well, without the F word?
Re:Faster! (Score:3, Funny)
Debug faster or you'll be gettin' the chair, m'boy!
Re:Surprise to Anyone? (Score:4, Funny)
"What features are there that are "must have" apart from the "ooh shiny" aspect"
Never underestimate the power of the "ooh shiny" marketing. The Force can have a strong influence on the weak-minded.
Re:Surprise to Anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
Clearest indication Windows 7 will be released soon?
Astroturf levels go well past "histrionic".
Windows $NEXT_VERSION will floor all comers (Score:5, Funny)
Guest post [today.com] by Mary-Jo Enderle
I have seen the future: Windows $NEXT_VERSION build $MOCKUP.
I tried it on a low-end netbook with four Core 2 Duo chips and only 8 gig of memory, and trust me: $NEXT_VERSION is shaping up to be one heck of a product.
WordPad and Paint have seen major overhauls to their user interfaces. Forget the freetards and their "distros" full of all sorts of useless shovelware like "FireFox" and "OpenOffice" and, haha, "GIMP"! - the bundled software with Windows $NEXT_VERSION is clear, simple, sparse and to-the-point. The much-loved $HATED user interface from Office $HATED_VERSION is now part of WordPad and Paint!
The controversial Digital Rights Management system in Vista has been worked over, with user-downloadable "tilt bits," which you can configure to your own liking. It'll require every user to supply a blood sample for DNA analysis, and the beta nearly took my finger off, but of course that's only if you want to play premium content. The Blu-Ray(tm) of Battlefield Earth was unbelievable on this operating system.
A release candidate should be available by the end of this year. There's just no way that Steve "Trains Run On Time" Ballmer will miss the Christmas deadline. The final release should leave the midnight queues on Vista release day - the street riots, the water cannons, the rubber bullets - in the shade.
I am so excited about $NEXT_VERSION of Windows. It will go beyond just solving all of the problems with $CURRENT_VERSION, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, those are all fixed in $NEXT_VERSION. And they're finally ridding themselves of $ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF.
Also, there'll be $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM. It'll be awesome!
I wonder how $NEXT_VERSION will compare to $NEXT_NEXT_VERSION.
Re:And as the fanbois over the internet (Score:2, Funny)
But then what sort of smug satisfaction can we derive? For Apple users it comes from the fact that we paid a premium for a stylish and well done product. For Linux users, it comes purely from the fact that we aren't using Windows. And for Windows, well, there isn't much to be had since everyone runs it.
If what you say is true, then this has serious implications for my self-identity.
Re:And as the fanbois over the internet (Score:3, Funny)
So, you're saying you got a product for free that wasn't well designed and not particularly well done? ;-)
Re:Surprise to Anyone? (Score:5, Funny)
but browsing the net and sending emails just isn't that demanding.
not a firefox user eh?