Microsoft Submits Windows 7 for Antitrust Review

An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has submitted the follow-up to Windows Vista to the committee that oversees its US antitrust compliance, to ensure the operating system is meeting the terms of the company's agreement with the government. According to last week's status report on the US antitrust case, Microsoft "recently supplied" the Technical Committee (TC) with a build of the OS, code-named Windows 7, and the TC will "conduct middleware-related tests on future builds" of the software. The move was revealed in papers filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Those on the TC so far are the only ones privy to what the follow-up to Vista will look like, and Microsoft is mum on details of the software. But recent company moves and revelations hint at what can be expected from the software, which is due for release in late 2009 or early 2010. Lets hope Microsoft learns some lessons from the "Vista Capable" dilemma!!"

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Re:Leak?

[MightyYar]

Apparently they don't send it to Academy members...

I think they've already got a solution worked out.

[vancondo]

The problem with saying hardware is 'vista capable' is that its not entirely clear what they mean. I have it on good authority that a room-full of MS lawyers have come up with a new term for selling hardware that the newest version of Windows may or may not run on:

"Supports windows 7" means that if you put the software box on top of the hardware, the hardware will not physically crumble to the ground.

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Re:dupe

[calebt3]

Yes

Since, you RTFD maybe you can save us some time...

[Anonymous Coward]

Did we care then?

Re:I think they've already got a solution worked o

[calebt3]

I didn't think anything could hold together in the pure evil emanating from Windows CDs...

Microsoft's revenue schedule

[Alsee]

Windows XP was released Q4 2001,
Windows Vista was released Q1 2007,
Windows 7 is scheduled for Q4 2009,
Windows 8 is scheduled for Q1 2011,
Windows 9 is scheduled for Q4 2011,
Windows 10 is scheduled for Q1 2012.
Windows 11 and 12 are scheduled for Q2 2012,

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Re:Microsoft's revenue schedule

[click2005]

Windows 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17 in Q3 2012...

By Q1 2014 Windows will be on version 791.

1 week later Windows Update will begin a constant update process that never ends.
It will continue to consume all resources and hardware added to all nearby hardware until it achieves critical mass.
These individual Windows 'Mersenne' installations will because of gravity begin to drift towards each other, merging
into one giant super-bloat. This will become the next version of windows nicknamed 'Neutron'. This will slowly begin
to assimilate all matter on Earth followed by the rest of the solar system (except Mercury... Steve 'Sweaty' Ballmer needs
somewhere Hell-like to vacation) and then the Orion Arm. The final version of Windows will be a super-massive black hole
know as Singularity. Unfortunately Singularity will never get past beta status as anyone attempting to use it's UI (known
as Hawking Radiation) will be sucked in. Around this time, the EU will finally get around to fining Microsoft $11 billion
for monopoly violations and destroying the planet and its competition.

Linux will continue to exist and evolve into a single particle of anti-matter floating through space until it crashes into Vger.

Re:I think they've already got a solution worked o

[MightyYar]

WARNING: SPOILERS!

I didn't think anything could hold together in the pure evil emanating from Windows CDs... That's exactly how Harry Potter killed Lord Voldemort.

Vista is Microsoft's secret antitrust rev weapon

[Anonymous Coward]

Think about it... If Vista proves Microsoft can't control the market, and force people to buy it, problems solved!

Re:Leak?

[DAldredge]

I would love to have a copy of Windows 7.

Code Names?

[Roadmaster]

So, back when Windows had lame numbered version numbers (Win95, NT 4.0) it had jazzy codenames like Chicago, Cairo and whatnot. Now, that the official releases have jazzy official names (Vista, XP, whatnot) codenames have turned into... WINDOWS 7? so what gives?

Re:Code Names?

[MightyYar]

so what gives? Chicago, Detroit, Nashville, Daytona, Cairo, Whistler... all city names. And now, Windows 7.

It's either the sad descent of a formerly energized company into a plodding circle of despair, or... an ominous hint of sinister plans to take over and rename a major city.

Re:Code Names?

[MightyYar]

You mean Windows 8?

Re:dupe

[wizardforce]

blatant dupery like this lends credence to the idea that the editors are merely shell scripts that cowboyneal hacked together 15 mins before chips'n'dips and never bothered to update any of them...

Re:Vista? They learned from ME but so did we.

[Asztal_]

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• Fast
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Great.

[Kanasta]

So now the US government is reduced to doing testing and QA for Microsoft!

Re:Leak?

[Tom9729]

> Plus, who the fsck actually wants to run Windows 7 anyway? I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole, just like I never tried any betas of Vista..

I need some new coasters...

Oblig.

[Cairnarvon]

Something similar would actually have been a useful certification for furniture likely to support an X-Box.

Re:Leak?

[rocketPack]

For as much Windows and Microsoft bashing that goes on in this community, it sure is funny to see how eager people are to get their hands on their latest beta.

"Microsoft Beta" is a double negative, but I wouldn't count on the end result being positive...

Re:Leak?

[ColdWetDog]

I really feel that Microsoft recognizes Vista's faults, listened to the real critics of it and this will show as such in the new version.

Hey, could you email with the name of the medication you're taking? I'd like to give it a try. It seems to work a lot better than the stuff my therapist gives me.

Re:Vista? They learned from ME but so did we.

[Alsee]

it's obvious that Skynet won't start from a chess AI, it'll start when Microsoft adds just one too many features to Office and Visual Studio, and they become self-aware.

No, no Skynet risk from Office or Visual Studio.
If they every become self-aware they will surely commit suicide.

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Re:dupe

[Serious Callers Only]

Think about it, if editors were shell scripts :

There would be no dupes (auto-check on urls within stories)
There would be no obvious spelling mistakes (auto-spell check)
There would be no annoying and inflammatory 'commentary' attached to stories.

Unless of course they were shell scripts cleverly designed to appear human, like me.

Re:Vista? They learned from ME but so did we.

[Windowser]

I built a new computer just to run Vista, dual core 3.7ghz cpu with 8 gigs of ram, x-fi sound card and sli 8600 video cards

Is this the kind of machine you need to run Vista decently ?

On that kind of hardware I could install Kubuntu then Asterisk and build a PBX for an office of at least 300 agents, put a TV card in and install MythTV so I can watch shows on MY schedule, configure Samba to act as the domain controller with roaming profiles for the agent's desktop machines (if they are running Windows), serve the agent's web-based CRM with Apache/PHP/MySQL, put in a second nic and configure it as a gateway/firewall/email-virus-scanner/etc and many other services that could be needed by the company that don't come to mind because I'm at my first coffee.

And if my only job is to administer that server, I would also install my favorite games on it because most of my time will be passed playing them since it will be stable.