Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 22nd Jan 2008 21:56 UTC
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:2007-06-07
I doubt it. It's the familiar legacy stuff that helps Microsoft to keep long their time users. If it's a totally new OS, people could just as well buy a Mac or, God forbid, install Linux.
That's not true. MS owns VirtualPC. Only MS can offer near 100% backward compatibility by including images of every single version of Windows ever released. It would be down right incompetent for MS to put even the smallest amount of effort into backward compatibility in the next version of Windows. They should be putting all of there effort into slimming down the bloat, making sure that VirtualPC runs seamless, and making sure that 3D works in VirtualPC.
I don't expect that to happen, as 'backward compatibility' is MS's excuse for crappy code. Even if the backward compatibility is only so-so.
Member since:2005-07-06
Virtual PC isn't the future. MS purchased softricity and that will fix the application mess as it exists today. Windows 7 will enforce good applications or virtualize the apps to prevent bad apps from messing the rest of the system up. I'm not normally a fan of MS but this is a good thing....
http://www.microsoft.com/systemcenter/softgrid/default.mspx
Member since:2005-07-06
Virtualization has severe performance penalties.
You can't run 3D games *; you have severe limitation on multimedia applications; you require far more memory and CPU power to run the same application; etc.
- Gilboa
* In theory, the PCI-E protocol does support device virtualization - but AFAIK, the support for this feature (both hardware and software) is severely lacking.
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I would think it would have the opposite effect.Since more users have left Windows because of the cumbersome nature of Vista due to legacy support.
Have you seen any figures that support that?
The most important factor to keep people from switching to another platform is that they need to run the same set of programs to access their data that they have accumulated over many years.
There is virtualization that can help you with that but then you still have all or at least most of the problems of old fashioned windows, just at a slower speed. Virtualization is also available on Mac and Linux so that wouldn't give a brave new Windows much of an advantage.
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I doubt it. It's the familliar legacy stuff that helps Microsoft to keep long their time users. If it's a totally new OS, people could just as well buy a Mac or, God forbid, install Linux.