Gates: Windows 7 could be ready 'in the next year'?

[Midwest-Linux]

Gates: Windows 7 could be ready 'in the next year'?

http://www.techspot.com/news/29618-gates-windows-7-could-be-ready-in-the-next-year.html

"In a very surprising statement, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said that Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, could come within the next year. That's way ahead of schedule as it was previously hinted that the next major revision of the operating system would arrive sometime in 2010, or roughly three years after Vista.

Gates made a public appearance at the Inter-American Development Bank in Miami, where a meeting to discuss Latin American development
held place."


Also

http://www.news.com/8301-13860_3-9911470-56.html

[emshains]

Gates: Windows 7 could be ready 'in the next year'?

http://www.techspot.com/news/29618-gates-windows-7-could-be-ready-in-the-next-year.html

"In a very surprising statement, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said that Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, could come within the next year. That's way ahead of schedule as it was previously hinted that the next major revision of the operating system would arrive sometime in 2010, or roughly three years after Vista.

Gates made a public appearance at the Inter-American Development Bank in Miami, where a meeting to discuss Latin American development
held place."

Well just another half-baked virus magnet OS. It will again need a anti-spyware, anti-moleware, and an anti-virus to run with 1 reboot per hour.

[NightwishFan]

I doubt it will be ready in the next year. He is pulling a Vaporware stunt there. Everyone will be waiting for Windows and will not get anything else and then come next year, it will be delayed. If it is released, I doubt that it will be good they spent so long on Vista, and it well, sucks. :KS

[sayakb]

A year ago, it was just MinWin, the kernel. And now it's ready!!.. Thats not how MS does it... this is strange :-?

[NightwishFan]

Oddly I am against Microsoft making a good OS simply because then I will have no computers to fix... Although most of the people I know will still be using Xp/Vista (and some Ubuntu) :KS

[Sukarn]

I think that the original plan for Windows 7 release was 2009 (read it in an article somewhere quite a while ago) but then because Vista was delayed into 2007, Windows 7 release plan was delayed into 2010.

[sayakb]

So does that mean that they had been working on Vienna since some time? Though that is not quite strange.. I used Longhorn PDC once. It was released sometime around October 2003.. PDC had some of the Vista features like preview and filters, scalable icons.. blah blah.. Though it took MS 3 years and 2 months more since the time of PDC to come up with the RTM..

[buried]

It's a trick to "Get me attention on people" if it is released, it will be way worse.

[67GTA]

They are also trying to pull attention away from Vista.

[insane_alien]

well, we can put out an ubuntu release every 6 months with a lot ess money and resources. so it is at least technically possible. though i doubt they would have the quality we do.

[locosmurf]

It is very unlikely that Windows 7 will be released in 2009 or, for that matter, any time before 2011ish if they want a version that won't flop like Vista did. However, M$ is pretty desperate to get something out there and to draw attention away from the aforementioned "horridness" of Vista so maybe they stepped up their game. Everything that M$ needs to stay on top in the market is riding on this next release. If it's good, then M$ stays number 1. However, if it becomes another Vista fiasco, then the market will give way to Apple or, with any luck, Ubuntu or just Linux in general.

But these are just my ravings and are not founded on any solid facts ^_^

[insane_alien]

anyay that results in a takedown of the monopoly that is microsoft and doesn't reinstate another(be it apple/linux/solaris/whatever) is a favourable outcome in my opinion. the competition would be good for everyone and linux would get more developers. who knows, maybe game developers will then see linux as a viable market.

[LaRoza]

Maybe they will put the features that were supposed to be in Vista in Windows 7.

No matter what they name these, they still haven't released Vista.

[kamaboko]

However, if it becomes another Vista fiasco, then the market will give way to Apple or, with any luck, Ubuntu or just Linux in general.

But these are just my ravings and are not founded on any solid facts ^_^

One's experience with operating systems vary in mileage. I can say with respect to Vista (64 bit), it is the most solid OS I have ever used. Absolutely everything works, and it works flawlessly. On the same machine with Ubuntu, OpenSuse, PCLinux, gOS, Fedora, Debian, etc., there's "always" an issue with something at any given time.

[the8thstar]

That was easy: all they had to do was rip off the FreeBSD 7.0 kernel and install a patched version of Aero on top, aside with a homemade virtual machine to allow backward compatibility with Windows programs! Now Microsoft runs UNIX. Tada!

No wonder they're so quick. :)

Who knows, maybe we'll have Bill Gates spring out of a cake, naked like a worm and wearing pink bunny ears at the inauguration party. That would be the WOW effect!!!

[SunnyRabbiera]

Well at this point they might as well do it with Vista causing so many issues.

[the8thstar]

Love that cake, Bill!

[CrazyArcher]

That was easy: all they had to do was rip off the FreeBSD 7.0 kernel and install a patched version of Aero on top, aside with a homemade virtual machine to allow backward compatibility with Windows programs! Now Microsoft runs UNIX. Tada!

Well, that's what Apple did with their OS. Nothing new.
For me, as far as it works and satisfies my needs, I don't care much what core is inside.

[the8thstar]

CrazyArcher

Well, that's what Apple did with their OS. Nothing new.

Precisely. I'm under the impression that MS is about to take a similar twist, in their own sweet proprietary way of course.

[toupeiro]

It will probably be released to corporations first, much like 64-bit XP was initially. I am expecting to get a beta sometime this year.

[3rdalbum]

Bill Gates is trying to create a reality distortion field. If Windows 7 does ship next year, expect more of the same driver woes and incompatible programs. If there's anything Microsoft should have learnt, it's that they need to stay in contact with all software and hardware developers more to ensure that new stuff is compatible.

It's no skin off my nose though - Vista's software incompatibility caused a friend of mine to jump ship to Ubuntu!