Windows 7

impar · **PC Gamer** Moderator

Greetings!

Evidence mounting: Windows 7 going modular, subscription

When Windows 7 launches sometime after the start of 2010, the desktop OS will be Microsoft's most "modular" yet. Having never really been comfortable with the idea of a single, monolithic desktop OS offering, Microsoft has offered multiple desktop OSes in the marketplace ever since the days of Windows NT 3.1, with completely different code bases until they were unified in Windows 2000. Unification isn't necessarily a good thing, however; Windows Vista is a sprawling, complex OS.

powerarmour · **--[papameister]--** Mod Squad

Bill Gates: Windows 7 May Ship Next Year :-

http://www.reuters.com/article/technologyNews/idUSN0430179020080404
http://www.techpowerup.com/index.php?56994

I wonder if Windows 7 is actually Server 2008 in disguise... Think

It's already been rumoured (Server 2008) to be ~20% faster than Vista overall based on early tests so far.

impar · **PC Gamer** Moderator

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powerarmour · **--[papameister]--** Mod Squad

Seawolf · Ultra nForced

That is just idiocy. ME didn't work right for 90% of the people who tried it. Vista doesn't work for less than .0001% of the people who try it.

Windows 7 will launch when it's ready, and finally make compatibility accessed entirely virtually. That should make things a lot less messy in Windows land.

I'm still hoping for a 'launch application in a window' option myself.

powerarmour · **--[papameister]--** Mod Squad

Seawolf · Ultra nForced

I doubt WinFS will be in there. I've seen no mention of it being.

impar · **PC Gamer** Moderator

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daglesj · nForced²

I have to say Vista is so far the only OS upgrade I've done from MS that has not impressed me in any way.

I saw/felt the benefits of 95 over 3.1. 98SE over 95 and XP over 98SE.

Vista has been a very underwhelming experience. Some would say that due to me using Basic but at the end of the day except for full Aero and a few unessential apps its Vista. I dont think I'm the only one who thinks this.

I look forward to vesion 7. However, if its purely once again another warmed over XP/Vista variant there will be trouble unless MS can really work on the code, refine it, optimise it.

Impress us! Smile

impar · **PC Gamer** Moderator

Greetings!

Reading the mainstream media this weekend, you'd believe that Bill Gates announced that Windows 7 will be released to retail in 2009. The only problem is, he didn't say anything of the sort. What Gates said merely confirmed what we've all known all along: that Windows 7 is being developed on a three-year timeframe.

First, the quote that started it all. It's perfect "Chairman"-speak because it doesn't really tell you anything, but it gets the press and blogosphere hot and bothered, and hey, free press is great. Are you ready for the quote that rocked the tech world, leading scores of publications to say that Windows 7 is coming in 2009 and that Microsoft has turned up the heat on its development plans? Prepare thyself:

"Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version [of Windows]," said Mr. Gates.

That's it.

In a world of tech reporting where one's memory apparently stretches back not to the great Longhorn reboot but instead no further than one's breakfast, Mr. Gates' totally vague comment morphs into a product launch announcement, at least once the blogosphere gets ahold of it.

Nevermind the fact that Mr. Gates has been wrong before about launch timeframes. Nevermind the fact that "the next year or so" does not equate to "next year," at least not in the English language. And nevermind that Microsoft's public relations wing says that Gates' comments do not indicate a change in the development process at Windows. The above quote is surely a sign that we'll see Windows 7 in retail in a year's time. (And if you believe that, I've got a patent on the semi-colon key I'll sell ya.)