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Gates: Windows 7 may come 'in the next year' | |
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| Time: 12:51 EST/17:51 GMT | News Source: News.com | Posted By: Andre Da Costa | ||
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MIAMI--Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates on Friday indicated that Windows 7, the next major version of Windows, could come within the next year, far ahead of the development schedule previously indicated by the software maker. In response to a question about Windows Vista, Gates, speaking before the Inter-American Development Bank here, said: "Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version." Referring to Windows 7, the code name for the next full release of Windows client software, Gates said: "I'm super-enthused about what it will do in lots of ways." |
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| #1 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Friday, April 04, 2008 01:23:50 PM |
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Bill Gates is looking more & more like Clay Aiken every day.
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| #2 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at Friday, April 04, 2008 01:31:03 PM |
| Yes, but Bill can sing! |
| #3 By 8556 (12.208.163.138) at Friday, April 04, 2008 02:22:49 PM |
| "Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version." This doesn't mean that WE will have a new version. Bill gets a bit overly optimistic about release dates and feature sets. He "guaranteed" that the next consumer version of Windows after 98SE would be 32-bit. It took an extra year, after Me was kludged, to code consumer Windows as a true 32-bit OS, which became XP. If Bill says next year for Windows 7, figure on 2010. |
| #4 By 143 (65.221.158.226) at Friday, April 04, 2008 03:07:41 PM |
| Suckered me once with Vista, he isn't getting me twice with W7. <_< |
| #5 By 15406 (216.191.227.68) at Friday, April 04, 2008 03:18:10 PM |
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#2: <Arnie>That was a good one, ar ar ar!"</Arnie>
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| #6 By 7390 (24.191.94.122) at Friday, April 04, 2008 03:37:58 PM |
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it's a shame that a software development company like Microsoft cannot develop innovative software in a timely fashion
Honestly speaking I have not seen anything innovative in the Windows OS market since Win95. everything has been incremental changes, the UI and network capabilities are the same. |
| #7 By 7760 (98.173.218.183) at Friday, April 04, 2008 04:08:22 PM |
| RedHook, do you have any ideas for huge changes that'll revolutionize the platform the way that Win95 did, without pissing off huge segments of their user base, particularly the business world? What model is so much better than the taskbar and start menu that everyone, businesses, home users and everyone in-between will all agree that it is better and universally accept it? We all would like to see more innovation, but until someone with a bright idea steps forward, it's not going to happen, and I doubt that any of us who post in comment sections on websites have any better ideas, know what can or can't be accomplished or understand what their user base wants better than the folks at Microsoft. |
| #8 By 2332 (66.92.78.241) at Friday, April 04, 2008 04:30:35 PM |
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RedHook - Just because you don't know about the innovations doesn't mean they're not there.
Things that come to mind off the top of my head: Ribbon interface Protected Mode Ready Boost Super Fetch "Multimedia" CPU Scheduler Compound TCP Parallel Extensions for .NET WPF WCF Surface Seadragon Photosynth Infocard Physical Gesture-based Mobile Phone controls These are Microsoft technologies just in the past year or two that I would consider innovative, and only the ones I could think of in the 30 seconds it took to type them out. Of these, many were shipped with Vista, and most are shipping in products in the near future or have already shipped. While we are at it, would you care to provide us with a list of innovative software solutions in Mac OS, Ubuntu, or any other OS? Nobody claims the Vista development cycle went as planned, or even that it accomplished its original goals, but Vista is a pretty damn good OS with plenty of innovative features. |
| #9 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at Friday, April 04, 2008 05:19:35 PM |
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#7: Take a look in the many ideas and projects that MS R&D department delivered; there is more than enough. The problem is that what they come out with is not put in commercial production.
And guess what? Office 2007 introduced the "Ribbon" and sales are above expectations, Vista is surely not in the same position. "Memento audere semper" |
| #10 By 8556 (12.210.39.82) at Friday, April 04, 2008 06:32:34 PM |
| #8: All true. However, there are a lot of people that hold a grudge against MS for stating that Vista would run on 512-MB of RAM and got burned buying an underpowered PC from places like Best Buy where the sales people didn't know any better. With 2-GB of RAM there is less than 10% difference in performance between XP and Vista running any program. Yet, magazines like PC World still inform their readers to stay with the too-easy-to-infect Windows XP. That's pretty stupid advice that keeps the unfounded fear of Vista alive. |
| #11 By 2332 (76.19.64.137) at Friday, April 04, 2008 08:56:52 PM |
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bobsireno - I completely agree that the "Vista Capable" debacle was just that, a debacle. Vista needs 1GB+ of ram. It really does. (Or, at the very least, 1GB of ram + a 1GB USB stick for Ready Boost.)
That said, with 1GB of ram typically being <$40, it's really not a big deal. Virtually all new PCs come with at least 2GB, and many vendors, such as Dell or Lenovo, are shipping their laptops with 3GB+. I personally upgraded my Thinkpad T42P to 2GB (from 1GB) for $60 a year ago, and it turned a slightly sluggish Vista machine into a machine that feels like its a brand new laptop. My T42P is nearly 4 years old. |
| #12 By 88850 (221.128.147.147) at Saturday, April 05, 2008 02:11:05 AM |
| Why do I get a feeling that these news sites love to create a dreamy mountain out of a molehill, create FUD and gossip and have no real work to do besides speculating and garnering the most number of page views, so ppl may click on their ads? |
| #13 By 81201 (87.6.60.168) at Saturday, April 05, 2008 02:15:10 AM |
| Windows 7 is just the codename for Windows Vista SP2 |
| #14 By 81201 (87.6.60.168) at Saturday, April 05, 2008 02:15:22 AM |
| Windows 7 is just the codename for Windows Vista SP2 |
| #15 By 28801 (65.90.202.10) at Monday, April 07, 2008 09:27:52 AM |
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Activewin is just a synonym for repetitiveness. Indeed, it is a metaphor for redundancy.
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