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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.
Windows 7 - because Vista sucked
which is totally what she said
given the delays of Vista I would schedule the next version for tomorrow, and hope to deliver some time in 2010.
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).
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!
"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?
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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.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
"Microsoft says they learned from their mistakes"
they always do. that's why they repeat them so well.
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.
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I used and have a copy of Windows 1. It wasn't good either.
My brain is overly lubricated
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.
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It will really be version 6.66 - use at your own risk.
This issue is a bit more complicated than you think.
Seven deadly sins Seven ways to Win(dows) Seven holy paths to hell And your trip begins
Seven downward slopes Seven bloodied hopes Seven are your burning fires, Seven your desires...
And not to mention the evil portent later on in the song of opening "the seventh seal" of the seventh iteration of your newly shrikwrapped Windows! Just hope they don't release it at 7:07 am on the 7th of July or we'll all be doomed!
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.
What about SCO?
As opposed to the not-quite-ready or buggy features that made the integration window for Vista.
Slow down, cowboy! It has been 4 hours since you last posted. You must wait another few hours.
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.
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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.
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