Windows 7 To Be Released Next Year?

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

[somersault]

Windows 7 - because Vista sucked

If I were Microsoft

[vagabond_gr]

given the delays of Vista I would schedule the next version for tomorrow, and hope to deliver some time in 2010.

Re:windows7

[Jhon]

Windows Vista is the new Windows ME.

Maybe it's like Star Trek movies -- only the even numbered ones are good (in this case, odd numbers).

Low memory requirements from ms...

[hengdi]

From TFA:

"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

[rvw]

Windows 7 - because Vista sucked

7 of 2009 says: Hasta la Vista!

Re:windows7

[eat here_get gas]

"Maybe it's like Star Trek movies -- only the even numbered ones are good (in this case, odd numbers)."

so it's not like Star Trek at all then?

Windows versioning

[smittyoneeach]

I'm concerned about the return to numerical versioning.
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

[somersault]

Then after Windows Altavista they can bring out Windows Google just so people know that people don't think it's less advanced!

Re:Vista's missing features

[eshefer]

"Microsoft says they learned from their mistakes"

they always do. that's why they repeat them so well.

Re:Vista a flop?

[Fred_A]

No, Vista is awesome.

How can it be awesome when it hasn't even got a Fun Pack ?
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

[dugjohnson]

I used and have a copy of Windows 1. It wasn't good either.

The movie version is much better

[goombah99]

Windows 7 will remind us all of the movie Seven.

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...

[Laughing Pigeon]

From TFA:

"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"

[NotQuiteReal]

It will really be version 6.66 - use at your own risk.

Re:I figured this would happen

[0100010001010011]

Microsoft may have blundered, but they're not dumb.

Hey now buddy, I think you're giving them too much credit.

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Re:Such optimism?

[PoliTech]

Where is Microsoft's new platform now?

What about SCO [sco.com]?

Re:Vista's missing features

[Cro Magnon]

By having a number of not-quite-ready or buggy features that just missed the integration window for inclusion in Vista, perhaps.

As opposed to the not-quite-ready or buggy features that made the integration window for Vista.

Re:Marketing Slogan

[TheHorse13]

Hey Charlie Brown, I *promise* I won't yank the football away *THIS* time.

Re:Why is it....

[MrNemesis]

That's an easy one to explain, OSX was initially designed to be deliberately slow and they've just taken out increasing amounts of sleep() calls from the code with every major release so that they can claim they've magically made it faster.

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...

[BoomerSooner]

So long as you're running the same programs on it I don't see why it would be any less responsive. Just install DOS, VisiCalc, and your dot matrix printer, and ZOOM!

Re:Vista's missing features

[Zordak]

My wife has it [Vista] on her new laptop. It replaced her Windows ME laptop.

Now somebody remind me, what is the appropriate agency for reporting spousal abuse?

Re:windows7

[Poltras]

if one is based on "even", and the other on "odd", how the fuck are they the same? since when does odd equal even?

Yeah, the odds of it happening are not even...

Re:windows7

[jollyreaper]

So was Windows 2000.

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.

Windows always struck me more like the Saw movies: you don't want anything to do with 'em but someone keeps making 'em. I also think that the best description of the Vista experience is torture porn, no fun for the victim, fun only for the person making the money off of it.

Re:windows7

[Codifex Maximus]

> How the hell do you people even code? Spelling counts there too!

Spel chekurz, preproseserz, leksicul anulizerz, an' sintaktik parserz.

Re:Low memory requirements from ms...

[turgid]

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...