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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. Why is it.... by Lumpy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    That Microsoft cant do what others can?

    I just got a copy of OSX 10.5 for my really old and outdated mac. Specifically to get a working copy of dashcode as I write OSX widgets for Crestron control. I was expecting the worst as installing the latest OS on a old PC never is a good thing.

    10.5 makes my machine faster. I kind of looked at it skeptically but it actually boots faster and has a more responsive feel, even NeoOffice opens faster as well as Final Cut.

    Why is Apple able to deliver an OS that is faster instead of slower? It's got as much eye candy as vista.

    Maybe microsoft needs to have all their programmers re-trained?

    FYI: Single processor G4 with only 784 meg of ram, and a crappy laptop video card.

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  2. Re:Low memory requirements from ms... by _KiTA_ · · Score: 5, Interesting


    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!


    Bloat is relative. Compared to Vista, 480MB is freaking Calista Flockhart-level of skinny.

  3. Re:windows7 by mhall119 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    NT4 was alright. 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.
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