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Microsoft Windows 7: What the Future Holds | |
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| Time: 13:39 EST/18:39 GMT | News Source: PC Magazine | Posted By: Andre Da Costa | ||
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Microsoft hasn't said much officially about Windows 7, but during a recent speech, Bill Gates said that it would "be lower power, take less memory, be more efficient, and have lots more connections up to the mobile phone." No one knows exactly what you'll see on the Windows 7 desktop, but here are a few intriguing hints. |
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| #1 By 89153 (75.157.154.187) at Monday, June 02, 2008 01:43:05 PM |
| Rehash of mostly the same stuff that's already been reported here and everywhere else. |
| #2 By 7754 (206.169.247.2) at Monday, June 02, 2008 02:02:10 PM |
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"Next, you'll find automated backup, Microsoft's catch-up answer to Apple's Time Machine."
Um, yeah... Apple has had backup built into OS X for so much longer than Windows. <rolls eyes> This rewriting of history to make Apple the inventor of it all is just ridiculous. |
| #3 By 7754 (206.169.247.2) at Monday, June 02, 2008 02:09:16 PM |
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"...it's likely we'll see something like the Office 2007 Ribbon in place of Windows' traditional menus and toolbars."
Based on... what? So just because it's some of the same people that worked on the Office 2007 team (Julie Larson-Green and ???), now it's somehow likely they'll simply take the approach developed to solve the issues of toolbar bloat and buried features in Office and slap it onto Windows? I don't think that follows. |
| #4 By 7754 (206.169.247.2) at Monday, June 02, 2008 02:17:09 PM |
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I'm sure this article would contain just as much negative inference if it were speculation about a future Apple product, of course....
"...Microsoft recently announced plans to integrate multi-touch technology in Windows 7, making user input possible by touching and gesturing your fingertip around the screen—a way of one-upping the iPhone interface while covering your monitor with greasy fingerprints." "...includes the ability to access your files from anywhere (as in Apple's Back to My Mac feature), and secure roaming, apparently a scheme to let you access your bookmarks and passwords from anywhere—a convenience that also sounds like a potential security nightmare." "One issue he didn't mention, however, was the chilling security nightmare that might result from integration with your wide-open cell phone." etc. etc. |
| #5 By 143 (65.221.158.226) at Monday, June 02, 2008 03:08:44 PM |
| I hear Apple invented candy because there all sweet and full of sugar. |
| #6 By 3653 (65.80.181.153) at Monday, June 02, 2008 11:58:33 PM |
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More wonderful copy/paste reporting. Are there any REAL tech reporters, other than Ed Bott?
Speaking of which, look at this beautiful piece of work (only beautiful, because its so rare to see legitimate sleuthing by tech 'reporters'). http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=462 |
| #7 By 17996 (66.235.18.153) at Tuesday, June 03, 2008 12:00:37 AM |
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I found this pretty funny:
"To see why it's called Windows 7, open a command prompt in your current version and enter the command VER. Under XP SP3, the version number displayed is 5.1.2600. Under Vista SP1, it's 6.0.6007 [[note: it's really 6001]]. No prize for guessing the first digit when you run VER in Windows 7's command prompt." The answer? 6. The leaked builds of Windows "7" so far have been version 6.1. And other than the codename "7", there is absolutely no evidence that they are going to up it to 7.0 before shipping. In fact, the Sinofsky interview, and everything I've read so far, indicates to me that Windows "7" is going to be a relatively minor release. Just like 95 to 98 was 4.0 to 4.1, 2000 to XP was 5.0 to 5.1, Vista to "7" is likely going to be 6.0 to 6.1. The name "7" implies to me that they used to have grander plans, but have scaled it down. Too bad they didn't stick with the Vienna code-name; would've served them much better. |
| #8 By 92283 (142.32.208.233) at Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:33:18 AM |
| #7 Since when was Windows ME / Windows 2000 to Windows XP a "minor" release other than the version number? |
| #9 By 17996 (66.235.18.153) at Tuesday, June 03, 2008 11:41:31 AM |
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#7 -- From 2000 to XP, despite the very noticable UI changes, there were very few new under-the-hood changes or new APIs compared with 2000. It was definitely a minor change overall.
ME -- well yes, anyone going from anywhere on the 9x line to anywhere on the NT line would be experiencing a major upgrade. But that doesn't count here. |
