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:2005-07-07
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:2007-08-29
If I recall correctly, Microsoft can work on more than one project at once (windows, office, hardware, live, etc). The windows team was only seven thousand-ish people out of eighty thousand employees a few years back; they might very well have seperate groups for vista polishing and windows 7.
EDIT: Unless you meant they should do an OS X style thing for several major releases, in which case who knows. What little we have heard sounds like they're making some low level changes though.
Edited 2008-01-23 04:57 UTC
Member since:2006-01-02
No one's making any announcements. This is just rumormongering from tech sites. No release dates have been announced and the milestone that was delivered to various partners is just the first out of a multi-milestone product.
The difference between ME and Vista was that ME was a dead-end of a line that had run its course. Win7 is being built on Vista, since Vista is actually a pretty good foundation.
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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.