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Vista successor, Windows 7 to be released next year?
apcmag.com (excerpt) ^ | January 23, 2007 | James Bannan

Posted on 01/23/2008 9:47:08 AM PST by HAL9000

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A recently-release 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.

There are apparently three “milestone” builds planned for 2008, and the first one – M1 – has already shipped to key partners for code validation. M1 is for the English language build only, but is available in both 32-bit and 64-bit versions. Microsoft has announced that Windows 7 will most likely be the last Windows operating system available in 32-bit, and given the rapid advances Windows Vista is making in the 64-bit computing market, this seems a sensible decision.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet
KEYWORDS: lowqualitycrap; microsoft; vista; windows; windows7; windowsmillennium

1 posted on 01/23/2008 9:47:10 AM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
A recently-release 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.

So, in other words, rush it to market. That's what they did with Vista - how did that turn out?

2 posted on 01/23/2008 9:55:37 AM PST by jdm (A Hunter Thompson ticket would be suicide.)
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To: jdm

Let’s use our customers as beta testers!


3 posted on 01/23/2008 9:58:11 AM PST by bshomoic
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To: HAL9000

By my calculation, Windows 7 is 88 less than Windows 95.


4 posted on 01/23/2008 9:58:16 AM PST by Question Liberal Authority (Carbon Dioxide is NOT POLLUTION. It is PLANT FOOD, necessary for all life on Earth.)
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5 posted on 01/23/2008 10:00:01 AM PST by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: jdm
That's what they did with Vista - how did that turn out?

The failure of Vista (a worthless piece of garbage I am forced to support at my job or I would have NOTHING to do with it) is probably a huge part of the reason for the accelerated timetable for its replacement.

The question is, have they learned any lessons about software development practices from that aforementioned failure?

6 posted on 01/23/2008 10:00:50 AM PST by irv
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To: irv

I don’t know if they’ve learned anything but I damn sure have. I’m going to Apple.


7 posted on 01/23/2008 10:02:52 AM PST by ontap (Just another backstabbing conservative)
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To: bshomoic
Let’s use our customers as beta testers!

That's nothing new for Micro$olth.
They've been doing it for years.

8 posted on 01/23/2008 10:16:05 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: HAL9000

From some searching on the net, it appears the end date for purchasing Windows XP with a new computer or at retail is June 30 of this year. That would leave a year of only Vista systems on new Windows computers before this next operating system comes along. I guess we will have to make do in the meantime or get that piece of crap, which is unlikely to run current hardware (for example I have a HP Laserjet 6P that I bought in 1996 that is doing just fine at age 12). Also XP SP-3 should be out by then too (yeah, I know the beta is out now).


9 posted on 01/23/2008 10:18:43 AM PST by CedarDave (The early primaries are port-o-potties rented to the left to pee in the conservative hot tub)
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To: jdm

Wonder how big of a committee it took to come up with the name “Windows 7”

Microsoft- The place where creativity goes to die.


10 posted on 01/23/2008 10:24:03 AM PST by Red in Blue PA (Truth : Liberals :: Kryptonite : Superman)
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To: HAL9000
Actually, an article I once read about the, then new, head of the Windows team gives me some hope. This was at the time when Vista was in early Beta testing, so it was a done deal.

As the story went, he had all of Windows function names printed out and their dependencies mapped with lines to connect them. He posted the whole mess on the wall for all the developers to see. Then, on another wall, he posted the same thing for Linux, so they could really see the difference, and what they were up against.

Apparently, he has made some real major changes in the developers' thinking and is making them write a much stronger and more sensible underlying O/S this time around.

As I said, it gives me some hope. I'm not sold yet, but interested to see if it works out. Heck, once the UI guys get hold of it, it could still be ruined anyway. *shrug*

11 posted on 01/23/2008 10:40:04 AM PST by TChris ("if somebody agrees with me 70% of the time, rather than 100%, that doesn’t make him my enemy." -RR)
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To: HAL9000

Vista is suffering the same fate as Windows ME.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYJwwUVQaRY&feature=related


12 posted on 01/23/2008 10:55:06 AM PST by Kolb
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To: Kolb
They did this [Vista] for you!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vje5LVSJYQI&feature=related

13 posted on 01/23/2008 11:07:10 AM PST by KosmicKitty (WARNING: Hormonally crazed woman ahead!!)
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To: TChris

They can make all the fine and dandy features in the world, I don’t care... it is the bloatware OS that really annoys me.


14 posted on 01/23/2008 11:38:22 AM PST by bshomoic
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To: HAL9000

This is good news, assuming they get it right. I’m not eager to leave XP but acknowledge I’ll have to at some point, and Vista doesn’t particularly appeal to me.


15 posted on 01/23/2008 11:51:21 AM PST by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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To: irv

Windows 7 will have second generation DRM technology included. There is no reason at all, even if you and I, like most people despise Vista, to celebrate the further destruction of First Amendment Rights and Fair Use rights as Windows 7 promises to do.


16 posted on 01/23/2008 12:13:29 PM PST by JerseyHighlander
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To: Kolb
Vista is suffering the same fate as Windows ME.

As a result of the Windows ME fiasco, Windows XP was a decent product.

Hopefully Vista does suffer the same fate, and as a result this "Windows 7" is a decent product as well.

Somebody has to tell Microsoft that an operating system is supposed to make it easier for programs to run, not be a resource hog program in and of itself.

17 posted on 01/23/2008 1:34:44 PM PST by Yo-Yo (USAF, TAC, 12th AF, 366 TFW, 366 MG, 366 CRS, Mtn Home AFB, 1978-81)
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To: KosmicKitty; Kolb

The first link is well done and funny — I watched it twice. The second, a Chris Cocker-Britney Spears spoof, I closed after ten seconds.


18 posted on 01/23/2008 1:37:30 PM PST by CedarDave (The early primaries are port-o-potties rented to the left to pee in the conservative hot tub)
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To: CedarDave; Kolb

Heck, that first link I e-mailed to everyone. That’s brilliant.

I particularly liked the Bataan Death March of Windows Operating Systems comment.


19 posted on 01/23/2008 1:56:15 PM PST by CougarGA7 (Wisdom comes with age, but sometimes age comes alone.)
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To: CougarGA7
I particularly liked the Bataan Death March of Windows Operating Systems comment.

Yeah, but no comment about the name of WinCE?

20 posted on 01/23/2008 4:00:13 PM PST by supercat (Sony delenda est.)
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