Rumour has it that Microsoft is pushing forward Windows 7 for a 2009 release. The first milestone build has supposedly already been shipped to select partners, according to APCMag. They claim to have access to a roadmap for Windows 7, but whether that claim holds any water remains to be seen. The Inq seems to believe APCMag, but that means about as much as a politician's word, so whether this is anything more than a rumour is difficult to say. CNet has more.
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Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2005-07-06
True; I remember when Windows XP was released, Bill Gates said they were going to scrap the 'incrimental release' scheduled in favour of a 4-5 year delay in favour of a huge release; a massive overhaul of all the components.
Here we are, Windows Vista with some really awesome new technologies - and not a single Microsoft product fully uses those new technologies. You'd think, for example, that they would make Office 2007 Windows Vista only and be the first big native applications to depart from win32 in favour of WinFX/.NET along with the new 'pillars of Vista'.
Just look for example within the applications that come by default with Windows; you'd think they would port their whole package across to the new API's and leave the old ones (old API's) there only for compatibility with old applications - again, they didn't do that.
So when it comes to third party vendors, when the main operating system vendor doesn't even get its own applications to use the own frameworks, the bundled applications don't even use the new frameworks - as a third party I ask myself why I should 'risk' the future of my business using new technologies which even Microsoft can't be bothered utilising.
As for Windows 7 - by the time it happens, Mac OS X will have ZFS booting, and numerous other things - possibly 15-20% marketshare. Linux will be making inroads as wine application support improves, and vendors jump on board to provide at the very least, support for their applications running through wine.
Edited 2008-01-23 03:27 UTC
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2005-11-13
If this is true then I can see people looking back at Windows Vista as the ME of the NT line in terms of product life cycle.
I'm thinking MS had enough bad press with Vista that they intend to get serious about windows deliveries again.