Windows 7 to replace Vista by next year already?
- January 22nd, 2008
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Windows 7 is apparently going to be released by mid-2009, just about the time that Vista gets all the bugs worked out and people get used to using it. Wonderful. As a disclaimer, I use Windows Vista on a Sony VAIO notebook so I’m not cutting down Vista for the sake of cutting down Vista. I use it every day and I’m not happy with it.
There’s reportedly already an early evaluation version of Windows 7 floating around that’s been given to hardware manufacturers. It’s the first of three “milestone” builds. The second milestone should happen in April or May of this year, while the third milestone is supposed to come along sometime thereafter in the third quarter.
If a new version of Windows actually comes out in 2009 without getting delayed at least a year, I’ll be surprised. So will the hardware vendors, businesses, and end-users who have had to put up with Vista’s growing pains, although they’ll be surprised in a more angry-surprised way.
Vista successor, Windows 7 to be released next year? [APC Magazine] via Slashdot
n3il89 (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Just curious, but is that an actual screenshot of Windows 7? If so, I fear that Windows 7 is trying to emulate mac os x’s dock instead of creating something innovative. Also, OS releases under five years from the last one really isn’t microsoft’s style so I doubt the 2009 date.
Doug Aamoth (Who am I?)
5 months ago
That screenshot is most likely fake. From the APC Magazine article I sourced, “is this Windows 7: this screenshot, floating around on online forums, purports to be from an alpha of Windows 7. Probably fake, but interesting nonetheless.”
gavin (Who am I?)
5 months ago
remember Millennium Edition?
ajadoniz (Who am I?)
5 months ago
yea, wheres that ss from?
ilovehddvd
5 months ago
What is the difference between XP growing pains and Vista growing pains?\\”It’s been a little more than four months since Microsoft’s Windows XP shipped. That should be more than enough time for hardware manufacturers to support an updated operating system with updated device drivers. But there are still plenty of peripherals and programs that won’t play nice with the new system, so if you’ve been holding off on installing XP, we can’t blame you.”
http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1P2-332558.html
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Doug Aamoth (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Many similarities, yes. Although many people were going from ME, which I think we can all agree was a bad operating system, to XP, which felt like either a lateral step or a step forward, depending who you ask. Now, many of us are going from XP, which is pretty stable and runs well, to Vista, which feels like a step backward to many people.
Travis
5 months ago
How is Vista a step back from XP - XP was not a big change from 98SE which is what most people had since only 5 copies of ME were ever sold. Vista has some huge changes in it from XP and apart from some software and hardware issues - which XP also dealt with -Vista is great for most users (you are a professional blogger and not an average user anymore).
I would like to see MS make Vista better over time like they did with XP and hold off on Windows 7 or whatever the next OS will be. With web apps and service packs a new OS is just not needed yet.
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drdrew (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Great. Another rushed Windows product, just what we need. Me thinks I’ll stick with Ubuntu. Though I have been having quite a good time with gOS…
Mark Evans (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Maybe Vista was just an interm/temporary product?! Or perhaps Microsoft should have waited another two years to get Vista right?
Harald Felgner (Who am I?)
5 months ago
It was a month ago that I first had the question on why Windows is still in it’s infancy years whereas Mac OS has entered the teenage period quite some time ago.
http://www.felgner.ch/2008/01/windows_7.html
Grandtheft (Who am I?)
5 months ago
In my experience Vista is a fine system - programs open in a blink of an eye, everything runs silky smooth and totally stable, plus I’ve had no problems with legacy software or peripherals.
If you research the net you’ll find that the negative perception of Vista is largely put about by journos with an axe to grind or Microsoft haters.
It’s a myth which parallels the myth about Windows ME. I used ME for seven years as my main operating system. The reason it is always perceived as a bad product is that, like any operating system, it had teething problems which were widely reported. What wasn’t reported was that these were all sorted out, because by that time everybody had moved on to XP.
In many ways ME was more innovative than XP as it pioneered plug and play and System Restore. For a time I dual booted with Ubuntu, and ME was faster and about as stable.
But as for now - Viva Vista!
Jarett (Who am I?)
5 months ago
Is Windows 7 coming out in 2009 in the same manner that Vista came out in 2005?