Windows 7 has been making waves around the net for a while now, and we already know some of the more encompassing goals of Microsoft's next operating system release. It's going to be built on top of the foundations laid out by Vista and Server 2008, but it will not increase hardware requirements. There's going to be a multitouch framework, and a new mystery taskbar. That's more or less all we know. Microsoft also said they were going to be more tight-lipped during the development process, something they will continue to do, but they did open a blog today: Engineering Windows 7. The E7 blog is written by Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, two senior engineering managers for the Windows 7 product.
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Loving the evident frustration there Thom :-). I also love the irony of the sarcasm and it actually being true. Classic.
Sadly, it's true. We get lots of lovely hype and non-delievered features at the end of five years, and all Windows 7 will be is what Vista should have been to start off with, quietly solving their bugs, wrong turns (let's use Windows Server as a base, no wait, we can't, let's use XP SP2, no wait, let's get one codebase and use Windows Server!) and trying to come up with something to plug the gap of missed features.
This is why businesses in particular simply haven't bought into Vista because they know for a fact after all this time that this is true. Quite clearly, it's going to take a longer time scale for it to sink into peoples' skulls around here. :-)
It rather puts the whole development model leading up to a major .0 release into perspective, doesn't it? ;-)
Edited 2008-08-15 08:54 UTC
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Hey Thom, we know you have to deal with a lot of crap from lot of ignorant muppets but it might be helpful to be a little less sensitive about (sarcastic) jokes about Vista? That way your neutrality you strive for as an editor remains unquestioned. And yes, it was a daft joke, but some people are amused by such things (even if it isn't you or I).
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Vista was Windows 6.0 and Windows 7 will be Windows 6.1.