Now that Windows 7 is more or less finalised on the feature side of things, with the release candidate around the corner, I thought it would be interesting to look back upon what we thought Windows 7 would be - and what we actually hoped Windows 7 would be. So, I dove into our article and comment archive to see how many of our hopes, dreams, and predictions came true.
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Member since:2005-06-29
Member since:2005-12-18
I had heard that, Thom..... but come on.. after n attempts at fooling people around by telling them about this new "File System" that would be used in Windows (since NT 4 or so?), it wouldn't have been weird if they had advertised about it for Windows 7 (which they didn't..... gave up finally?).
It was very funny for me (well.... not really) that months ago a co worker told me about this great file system that one of her teachers had told her about at college that would be included in windows ("So Microsoft can be really inventive sometimes, you know?"). That's kind of sad. Who was that teacher? A Microsoft Public Relations agent? And didn't people realize that Microsoft announced winfs would be included in windows (and dropped) every single time?
In other words: It was just sarcasm what I said about WinFS in the first place.
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2005-12-18
Prediction: WinFS would be dropped from Windows 7 (yet again!)
Did I get that right?