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Windows 7 To Be Released Next Year?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the that's-mighty-fast dept.

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.

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  1. If I were Microsoft by vagabond_gr · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Low memory requirements from ms... by hengdi · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

  3. Re:Marketing Slogan by rvw · · Score: 5, Funny

    Windows 7 - because Vista sucked 7 of 2009 says: Hasta la Vista!
  4. Re:windows7 by eat+here_get+gas · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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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  5. Windows versioning by smittyoneeach · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  6. Re:Vista's missing features by eshefer · · Score: 5, Funny

    "Microsoft says they learned from their mistakes"

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

  7. Re:Vista a flop? by Fred_A · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.
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