I do know that Windows 7 will be based on, and have the same codebase as, Windows Server 2008, FWIW.
Posted on 05/29/2008 2:59:05 PM PDT by HAL9000
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Microsoft is in a bind.Windows Vista has sold 140 million copies, but it's such a resource hog with unreliable hardware drivers that users keep asking Redmond to extend the support for Windows XP. Many corporations refuse to upgrade their server farms and cubicle-bound desktops at all. It's not often that 140 million copies of a software package that costs hundreds of dollars can be called a disappointment, but this one seems to fit that bill.
Vowing to release a new operating system every three years, the company now has about 20 months until the supposed release date for Windows 7. The tight-lipped mastodon has just started to let a trickle of feature details slip out, and I have to say that the early glimpses have not been very impressive.
The big news!
You know how the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch have these cool screens where you drag stuff around with your fingertips? Yeah, Microsoft will do that, too. Great, huh?
OK, so this version will do a bit more. Drag five fingers across the screen in a painting program, and you could leave five colorful glowworms in their wake. Play 10-finger chords on an on-screen piano, and resize photos by dragging the corners apart with two fingers. Wow, that's neato!
Yeah, so I lied. That's not really an update over the iPhone at all, save for the larger screens you'd see on a Dell desktop screen or a Hewlett-Packard laptop. The iPhone screen can do all of these tricks already, and I'm not really sure what the big innovation is here. At least Microsoft seems to be imitating an established leader in user interface design this time.
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Office 2007 blows. There, I said it.
I do know that Windows 7 will be based on, and have the same codebase as, Windows Server 2008, FWIW.
That’s no small accomplishment, and it probably is useful in some specialty applications, but I’d personally just rather they rewrote windows to make it smaller and faster. They could stay with a 3.1 looking interface for all I care, and I think that most people would agree. If this is just another bloated layer atop Vista, they’re killing themselves.
It is kind of surprising. Early in the year it looked like they would have a modern micro kernal architecture and support legacy apps in a compatibility box (VM). Seems so logical I just don’t understand why not.
You’re not the only one who’s disappointed in Office 07.
Just like Vista, I had to “upgrade” back to Office 2003.
It certainly looks like that is the way it has been.
Yup. Microsoft has to get with the “small is beautiful” thing. I want an operating system that will do a heck of a lot less, with a heck of a lot less resources, which can run off of a non-writable media, so it reloads fresh every time.
The only thing I wanted was consistency between their strange pseudo-MDI apps. Instead, I get a weird "ribbon" that makes it extra hard to find the feature I'm looking for, a stealth File-menu, and a bigger, backwards-incompatible spreadsheet.
They were going to put that in Windows 7, but it got canceled.
It's a cheap rip-off of and looks just like the default install of Firefox.
It's been all down hill since then.
Yeah I agree. IE7 more or less proved MS is out of ideas. They copied Firefox and didn’t even come close.
I’m still waiting for some Iowa farm kid who’ll design an OS that’ll bankrupt Microsoft in a months time.
They revolutionized the way one software company can rip off ideas from real innovators and not get sued. That’s innovative, isn’t it?
As long as MicroShaft continues to design their OS to benefit Hollywood and the RIAA, at the expense of their actual users, they deserve to be bankrupt and driven out of business.
Office 2007 blows. There, I said it.
A Vista question for someone out there.
I have a laptop with Vista Premium. I normally run administrator. Then I got the idea to create a standard user acount for safer surfing.
How to I transfer the administrator programs over to the standard user. I tried to change the standard account to administrator temporarily, but it changed back itself to standard.
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