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.” Read the full story on C|Net News
Windows Vista Refunds!
“I’m super-enthused about what it will do in lots of ways”
Now where did I hear that before? Oh yeah, MS-Dos…
laughed my head off
super enthused lol lol
…here’s some comments:
1. Windows7 will be a very intrusive program watching your every move and calling home. Once this becomes more public, Microsoft will have more issues.
2. People who say ‘mac this and mac’ should be eating those words due to the huge patches constantly rolling out for it. There is a reason mac is still has less than 10% of the market.
3. I have to apologize to Windows ME. That program actually ran on a lot of computers.
>There is a reason mac is still has less than 10% of the market.
Yup. But that ain’t it.
Isn’t it true that Gates is no longer involved with the running of Microsoft? Judging from this alone it would seem to be not so.
Anyway, it seems that Windows Vista sucks so badly that even the once mighty Gates has been forced to resort to mention the “next great” Windows instead. Talking about vaporware again.
I could care less about Windows Vista, and “Windows 7″? Let’s see if this thing also contains the performance and incompatibility problems, draconian activation and DRM of Vista. If so then Windows XP will be the last windows I will use.
He’s just trying to freeze the market.
…from what I read, Windows7 will be more intrusive to your private computing. I forget the pretty name, but it will try to pre-empt your moves by watching your history.
Aside from the amount of times XP and Vista calls home, this might be moot point.
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…mac’s <10% market share is probably due to two things:
1. Closed hardware environment
2. Microsoft’s share’s.
This is just a general comment. You say you became disillusioned with Vista after using it, yet the first entry on this site is January 25th 2006. Vista wasn’t give a retail release until January 30th 2007 – a whole year later – so what were you using that upset you so much? My guess is you’re some long term Mactard posing as an ex Windows fan and are just adding to the general FUD that surrounds an excellent operating system.
MS shrill
Crap, and I thought Vista was bad with editions:
- Server Core-enabled editions
These are the versions of Windows Server 2008 that will offer the Server Core installation option:
1. Windows Web Server 2008 x86
2. Windows Web Server 2008 x64
3. Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition x86
4. Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition x64
5. Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x86
6. Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition x64
7. Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition x86
8. Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition x64
9. Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition without Hyper-V x86
10. Windows Server 2008 Standard Edition without Hyper-V x64
11. Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition without Hyper-V x86
12. Windows Server 2008 Enterprise Edition without Hyper-V x64
13. Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition without Hyper-V x86
14. Windows Server 2008 Datacenter Edition without Hyper-V x64
Jon: I dated some entries according to the original article’s post date. Your guess is wrong. Want a photo of all my boxes full of PC hardware, and software? Or my PC in my closet?
…Windows 7 out in 2009?
Oh Boy! Only two more years of slugging it out with Vista!
*whew*
Oh, quick, gimme that Windows 7 whatever. I’m sick and tired of Vista! There’s nothing as horrible as this thing!
Isn’t the Vista replacement known as Vienna?
You should give some thought to Ubuntu – open hardware and software are a killer combo. I am a recent convert from Windows when I was given a PC with Vista on it (I have to learn a new OS, well who says that I should learn yours?) and have been very impressed with the community support and the functionality of the system. I am a research engineer with lots of computing tasks that I *thought* I needed Windows for. Not so.
There is no hiding that Ubuntu can be rought around the edjes with respect to some hardware (HW). However, given the number of hours that HW compaies put into making sure that their stuff works with Win, vs. the number of hours the Ubuntu community puts in to making sure that it will work with whatever you’ve got, I think it works surprisingly well. In the end, if market forces put the pressure on HW companies to develope drivers for Ubuntu, then this problem will get better (and the foces are at work, google “dell ubuntu” to see what I mean).
xp x64 is the last windows I ever will use. Ubuntu linux is good but the important thing to remember about linux and open source is CHOICE…you’re never cornered, never forced, and never screwed out of your money or forced to spend it. I like Fedora, others Ubuntu…there’s oodles of other CHOICES and I too was also very suprised to see literally thousands of free programs that make life easier.
Is Windows 7 going to be free ? Because I’ll never buy any thing from Microsoft again, not after the past 9 months of misery.
I’m going to make a wild guess and say the pricing will be the same as Vista.
woooo-hoooo
I have to agree…. After 30 years in the software business – and releasing over 10,000 systems all in windows (from Windows for workgroups to Vista), Vista is horrible.
I’ve given MS a long time to fix it, and they have. It is much less horrible than at the beginning – but horrible it still is.
I have spent 3 hours trying to get dialer.exe (Microsoft’s dialing program) to dial phone numbers from Outlook (not for the faint hearted – after all it’s 2008 – this is VERY advanced technoloy (lol)) and finding out that Vista broke the dialer (it cuts off 2 digits of the area code), but it can be fixed by adding +1 in front of the area code, but of course these are illegal chars…. Ahhhh… Bill Gates…. and company….. EAT ME!
Microsoft is collecting $59 for support calls for this ‘feature/bug’… Nice job Redmond….
Anyway – have a high end Lenovo notebook – but I better not have too many windows open (after all I only have 2Gig of Ram)… And I use my iPhone to read books while Vista searches for USB drivers (every time I switch computer displays with my KVR)… Or Outlook locks up…. It takes 50 seconds to load IE (when I need to use microsoft.com – of course they write their site not to allow Chrome or Firefox or Safari)… The list goes on…
Ubuntu is not a choice…. I wish it were… I use it, but it’s not really ready for the great unwashed (ex-AOL users, their Mom’s, etc.) Buy a Mac… Seriously…. Just started playing World of Warcraft on a new MacBook (not a pro – just the new MacBook) and it rocks…
I AM NOT A APPLE shill…. Just tired of being screwed over by Microsoft for 25+ years…. ( could list 200 reasons why… but another time)….
oh… p.s…. A window “A COM surrogate cannot be opened” keeps coming up on my screen…. for 2 hours now… every 5 min…. No error help… No fix…. No anything…. Guess it’s time for the every 6 hours 5 min reboot of my Vista system…. Guess I will go back to my MacBook… Plugged in next to my bed, hasn’t been rebooted in 2 weeks… Comes on in 5 seconds, finds the wireless network in 5 seconds, compared with 1.5 min for same actions under Vista.
UBUNTU PEOPLE! that simple .
How many times are you going to stick your head out to either buy into “this years model” or get relief from “last years model”. The issue is not to make an OS which makes your job eisier or more productive, the issue is Micro$oft needs to keep large profits and keep their programmers busy. In the words of Billy Crystal “I would rather look good than feel good”. Me… What I need is a reliable tool. I don’t need a bright colorful color organ. A computer is a communication device, like a phone. Remember Western Electric phones that looked the same for 40 years but always worked? They should concentrate on making the OS right before releasing it. The design cycle is obviously too short. Every “miracle” OS is released green. So, I for one do not get my hopes up. BTW, I have used every MS OS since DOS. I’m sticking with XP. And I’ll wait for greenhorns to get stung by whatever bleedind edge technology including Vienna. Microsoft management should be investigated for treason considering the negative impact they have wreaked on the world. What can we… the market… do to show MS that 1. We are not the opiated dolts they have been playing us for and 2. We will not take it!!! As I walk to MS with Vista’s report card I am 100% sure they earned the score of FAIL!
vista is about as usefull as a trap door in a canoe.
god almighty america someone build a decent system.
why does everyone sit on their hands and wait for
gates,s lumpheads to churn out another shitty rim racks
of an operating system
come on america
as regards linux? anyone ever own a skoda?
here lets have a competition for a laugh
who can come up with the funniest name for gates new
os system [whenever it comes]
heres an example
windows goquicker no patches 7
windows we re sorry for past shit 7
Vista suckers 7 is Heaven
Vista suckers don’t dispair
7 will be heaven
8 will be great
9 will be prime
Windows 7 !
why? 7
what 7 stand for ?