CNET has a very long interview with Microsoft’s Steven Sinofsky, the guy in charge of the Windows 7 project.
Sinofsky dekes and jukes like the great Walter Payton to provide almost zero details about the next version of Windows, despite an almost 4000 word long article.
Here’s what we know, though.
1. Windows 7 will be available “about three years after the general availability of Windows Vista,” which means sometime around January of 2010.
The timing of it depends a lot on what we wanted to achieve, and you’ve certainly heard us, and we’ve been very clear, and will continue to say that the next release of Windows, Windows 7, is about three years after the general availability of Windows Vista, and we’re committed to that, and we’ve signed up publicly to do that.
2. Windows 7 will be not be built upon a new kernel. It’ll be built on the Windows Server 2008 kernel, which “is an evolution of the kernel in Windows Vista.”
We’re very clear that drivers and software that work on Windows Vista are going to work really well on Windows 7; in fact, they’ll work the same. We’re going to not introduce additional compatibilities, particularly in the driver model. Windows Vista was about improving those things. We are going to build on the success and the strength of the Windows Server 2008 kernel, and that has all of this work that you’ve been talking about. The key there is that the kernel in Windows Server 08 is an evolution of the kernel in Windows Vista, and then Windows 7 will be a further evolution of that kernel as well.
3. Windows 7 will be available in 32- and 64-bit versions.
Finally, we are going to make sure that the release is available both in 32 bit and 64 bit, which is an additional help for maintaining compatibility, particularly with device drivers. As the 64-bit ecosystem catches up, we expect more and more people, particularly enthusiasts, to be running 64 bit.
Let’s translate, shall we?
1. We screwed you, long time.
2. We will continue to screw you.
3. We’ll keep the screwing open to anybody who was screwed before.
Sheesh… Upgrade to a either a Mac or Ubuntu already.
Hm.. as you say, go upgrade to a Mac.
But you do realize that the technological world that we are heading towards does not lean to the side of Apple. OSX’s server capability is horrible, and as for Ubuntu, I like it, but I don’t imagine it to be used by the non-techy Obama anytime soon.
I’d love it if they’d come up with an integrated DOS kernel, so the people who actually USE a computer can do something without having endless links of GUI to click through, looking at fancy images and all sort of imagecrap.
What does Ubuntu have to do with Obama?
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Your Operating system is Your own choice. Quit trying to make the choice for other people
I wonder if the people that work at Microsoft, like this guy, really believe all the BS they have to tell the media. Out in 3 years? Yeah right. Its like Fun with Dick and Jane. Just a face to blame when the company F’s up.
What’s Vista?
oh yeah, I remember that
Silly! Who is bothered?
Starting with Win 3.0 and moving up with most new releases I’ve learned
the hard way to wait for MS’s beta testers (new buyer’s) to find the bugs
and then wait another year or two for MS to straighten them out. Right now I’m using WinXP with IE7 and I’m a happy camper.
I’ll leave it to the monied adventurous to do my beta testing. Good luck to them.
Jack Manger
Windows 7 sins: gluttony of resources and wrath of Mac OS X are just the first two…
I am sure only gay people use macs men use windows.
MacOS is the most stupid thing ever made. Because it’s uncompatible with almost any program, I don’t even dare to mention games. Even in linux you can run some windows programs and games by using WINE.
If all you do is go online to read your email,watch youtube vids, vista is ok. But start to do anything else with that $1000 box on your desk, and get ready to pull your hair out. Just downgrade to xp and be happy with it until we’re all using Google’s OS!
vista isn’t for games cuz ms wants you to buy an xbox360, or a 720 in a couple of years. vista is crap cuz ms just tries to copy what apple does(not that osX is great stuff)and fails! the company was built on ripping off ideas or crushing ones that “threatened” them.imagine if google and linux got together!