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Windows 7 in the Next Year?
Microsoft's efforts to get businesses to adopt Vista may come to a screeching halt now that Bill Gates has announced "Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version", referring to Windows 7, the next expected version of the company's flagship desktop operating system.With a new version available soon, many organizations may decide to wait and see if they can avoid the pain of a Vista rollout altogether.
they will release it, but it will just be a repackaged version of xp. They probably want to switch back to it without anyone really knowing. It like the "new coke"
Slashdot April Fool's post is four days late. Hahahaha. Not as funny as the ponies thing though.
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Dear Zo^H^HBill,
We're trying as fast as we can to reach that Earth planet we were talking about recently, but our board computer we upgraded to Windows Vista, crashed several times, which resulted our ship to be put for few years on Uranus orbit, so we won't be able to reach that Earth planet before the what earthlings call year 2011.
Thanks for understanding,
Forever yours,
Windows 7 overlords.
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Microsoft has enough cash reserves to operate for at least a year without selling a single product. If they focused everything on developing Windows 7, then they might, just, have something in a year.
That's about as likely as getting 9 women to have a baby in one month.
What is more remarkable than the new version of windows that will be delivered next year is that it will be distributed NOT by boxes of CDs on shop shelves, NOT by pre-installation on hard disks of new machines and NOT EVEN by microsoft update. It will be hand delivered by monkeys flying out of my butt.
They whose government reduces their essential liberties for temporary security, receive neither liberty nor security.
Has anyone noticed a pattern here? Microsoft seems to screw an OS every other release: Windows 95, great! Windows 98, not so great. Windows 98SE, great! Windows ME, disaster! Windows XP, great! Windows Vista, disaster!
Will "Vista Reloaded" be again a hit?! I suppose we'll have to wait and see.
"Sum Ergo Cogito"
With BSD backend, I guess the development could progress that quickly and that would explain breaking the ABI rumor that I've heard.
The triple dip, Brilliant.
Microsoft is full of dips...Can you please tell me what colour socks you wear when you do all this? I've never found the colour that makes it behave...
Or maybe I'm paying off the wrong witchdoctor.
Windows 3.0, 95, ME, and Vista were terrible for users at first.
.DLLs, and trying to have a 32 bit codec process data over the 4GB mark would be a disaster. (This would also be why device drivers are locked down on 64 bit Vista; they would be easy to test on a 64 bit CPU with only 2-4 gigs of RAM, but would epic-fail after the 4GB mark, causing random crashes and corruption.
Windows 3.1, 98, XP, and whatever Win7 will be named are much better.
Windows 3.11, 98 OSR2, XP SP2, and Win7 + Whatever it's 2nd service release will be named are/will be good.
95/98 are version 4.XX, ME/XP is the 5.XX series (although ME reports itself as 4.9), Vista is 6.0; and "Win7" will probably effectivly be 6.XX, even if it reports as 7.0
Each new series introduces new APIs for Driver and Application developers; the later releases depricate old API's, while refining the newer ones, so the earlier releases of a series have buggy new APIs mixed with obsolete APIs.
As an example, Windows Media Player is still 32 bit on Vista 64 bit; I would guess that is because Codecs are in-process
Windows 7 will be released after application and driver developers have had time to get used to 64 bitness, along with IPv6, DirectX 10 (Which allows GPU preemtive multitasking.), etc. etc. it will be a lot more stable, and can reduce support for older APIs (from the 16 bit era, just as ME/XP dropped a lot of support for DOS applications); but I suspect a lot of unexpected things will be dropped to improve security (for example, in Vista, you can't drag-n-drop into a Command Prompt window, I read this was to prevent security issues)
So, Vista SP1 should fix the 'critical' problems with Vista; Win7 will correct some design flaws, and be more consistant, Win7 +Service packs will have both design fixes and then the critical fixes to those design changes... then everyone will absolutly hate Windows 8.
Sounds good, but remember, the average windows users' session last 2.3 years. Laptops? 4.8. Hell most users only log off when the power goes out.
Shift happens. Fire it up.