Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 22nd Jul 2007 15:26 UTC
Microsoft is planning to ship its next major version of Windows - known internally as version '7' - within roughly three years, CNET News.com has learned. The company discussed Windows 7 on Thursday at a conference for its field sales force in Orlando, Fla., according to sources close to the company. While the company provided few details, Windows 7, the next client version of the operating system, will be among the steps taken by Microsoft to establish a more predictable release schedule, according to sources. The company plans a more 'iterative' process of information disclosure to business customers and partners, sources said.
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2006-09-05
I politely disagree. This is comment I wrote in another thread.
Why to struggle with maintaining backward compatibility when Microsoft already owns the perfectly backward compatible software, the older OSes? Microsoft already owns virtualization software.
HW which will run the new OS is powerful enough to deal with VMs.
Why non include MS DOS 6.x, Win 95, Win 98, Win 2k ... as integral part of the OS running in VM? Rather then maintaining backward compatibility focus on developing best VM that runs your old software and integrate with your new OS. Then when application is installed automatically associate it with an VM and then automatically run it in given VM.
What you will end up with is the best OS possible since you do not have to deal with old baggage, best virtualization experience out of the box and best backward compatiblity since the application will run in OS for which they were developed.