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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RE: Get rid of the Registry
Member since:2005-07-06
Member since:2006-03-02
You can't really get _rid_ of the registry; it's been around forever, and you could easily say that 99% of Windows applications rely heavily on it.
I agree with the first comment; if Win7 is to come out so soon, then Vista will be much like ME in that it was succeeded in a rather short amount of time.
Was this planned all along? Who knows. It's just surprising, though, because we all heard _so_ much hullabaloo about Vista and how it would be the biggest change since 3.x -> 95, and now MS, *apparently*, is just going to come out with another release before Vista has really made any real progress.
Member since:2005-07-07
I guess we have to wait and see what they do with this new Windows. It makes me wonder why they are announcing this now, since it may slow adoption of Vista even further and dampen the sale of new computers.
Are they just giving up on Vista entirely? Why not further refine Vista? What gives? Vista has problems, but is it that hopeless? More frequent, smaller, incremental improvements might be preferable. Seems strange to me.
I guess time will tell.
Member since:2005-11-09
Member since:2006-01-02
I think some benchmarking magazine actually stuffed the registry full of random entries and didn't find much of a performance degradation. I'm not sure why you let the registry bother you that much. Sure, there are problems with it, but I don't think performance is the most serious one.
Member since:2005-11-09
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2005-07-06
Would love to see the registry removed. This causes so many issues and eventually leads to the slow down of your PC because there are always ghost entries left when uninstalling and reinstalling software over time.
Once they do this I may return to the Windows family till then I'll stick with Linux or OS X. When I get home at night I want to be able to enjoy my computing experience.