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Windows 7 in the Next Year?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the also-duke-nukem-forever dept.

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.

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  1. I find that hard to believe by AC-x · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Next year? they haven't even started beta yet have they?

    1. Re:I find that hard to believe by Kensai7 · · Score: 5, Funny

      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.

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  2. Nah, not really by 2.7182 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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"

    1. Re:Nah, not really by PopeRatzo · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I'm not so sure that having all Vista compatible apps also Linux compatible would be the "death sentence" for Microsoft.

      If there was a company that made a "professional, commercial" Linux-type OS that could run all Windows programs natively, I'd not only buy 5 copies, but stock in the company.

      Hell, I'd tattoo their logo on my neck.

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  3. Re:Ground up by murr · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  4. New distribution method for new OS by zmollusc · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  5. Longhorn next year! by Groggnrath · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is simply the way MS operates. Windows 7 will be due out next year, for the next 3 years.

    It'll be right around the corner, or almost to Beta for at least 2 years, only to have the whole thing scrapped because it's too hard to program anything not NT based.