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More Indications Windows 7 Is Coming In 2009
An anonymous reader writes "Following on the news that Microsoft was going straight to a RC for Windows 7, the One Microsoft Way blog has put together some dates on the upcoming roadmap for Vista's successor. Microsoft has always said 'three years after the general availability of Windows Vista,' which was released on January 30, 2007, and that the release date was also dependent on quality. Internally though, Microsoft is saying other things. It looks like we'll see the RC coming in April, and a final RTM version before October 3. Yes, that means Redmond is currently hoping to get Windows 7 out the door in 2009."
Who cares.
This is not a new OS. M$ takes the putrid Vista code, finds the most bloated , slow junk. Does a little fixing to make it seem faster. Put's a pretty face on it. Poof Tada Windows 7.
What was that comment about lipstick on a pig?
* Carthago Delenda Est *
Once the millions hear that they can get $50 back from Microsoft by refusing the EULA click-through, AND they can get an OS that doesn't need an anti-virus program, AND that most of their existing software, including games, will still work, they'll switch.
Saving $50 when a computer cost $5,000 didn't make sense. Saving $50 and getting rid of the virus problem (and its' associated costs) when a computer costs $250 makes a LOT of sense.
conflicker/downadup, antivirus2009.exe, coolwebsearch, etc., will keep on giving people incentives to switch.
Saying Vista "got bad press" in a weakly passive voice is like saying Bush "got beat up by the Liberal Media" during his 8 years of destruction.
What really happened was that both arrived like turds on the surface, were hailed as wonderful by PR-driven flacks, celebrated and defended for far too long by a timid media, only to ultimately be frowned upon after the people rejected them, resulting in a mild castigation by the media as an exercise in populist appeasement.
Vista was an Edsel, stop making excuses for Microsoft's fuckup. You don't have to find golden corns in the turd for us.
Windows 7 is to Vista what McCain/Palin is to Bush: another attempt to pull off the same shit, wrapped with a banner of newness to suggest a whole new game was afoot.
Windows 7 vs. Mac OS X Snow Leopard