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Windows 7: Seven Developments you Should Know About

Steven Parker   on 24 September 2008 - 10:26 · 16 comments & 10660 views

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One stone-cold fact about Windows 7 is that we need more stone-cold facts in order to understand the new operating system that is likely to arrive in early 2010.

The company has said some of those facts will come in late October and early November during two of its major conferences — the Professional Developers Conference (October 27-30) and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (November 5-7).

What is known beyond the Windows 7 code name is that Microsoft is building the operating system on the Windows Vista code base in order to avoid the sort of application-compatibility problems that plagued Vista early in its release. The new interface will feature the Ribbon toolbar throughout, and the server version will add the much-anticipated live migration feature to the virtualization capabilities.

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#1 excalpius on 24 Sep 2008 - 11:29
Thank you for posting a link to an article with a little bit more meat on it than we've been getting recently!
(3 replies) #2 Skyfrog on 24 Sep 2008 - 11:43
Well that didn't really say much of anything, at least nothing that wasn't already common knowledge I think.
#2.1 excalpius on 24 Sep 2008 - 12:43
But it did it in one article, whereas most here take an entire blog page to cover one line of text here, haha.
#2.2 este on 24 Sep 2008 - 12:52
I duno.. I thought it was a good read.
#2.3 matessim on 24 Sep 2008 - 13:18
(Skyfrog said @ #2)
Well that didn't really say much of anything, at least nothing that wasn't already common knowledge I think.

its amazing how that article writes so much without saying anything really. +1
(4 replies) #3 franzon on 24 Sep 2008 - 14:03
This is the evidence that Vista is a rock solid OS because Microsoft will build Windows7 on the Vista core.
Vista is not a failure, but it's the best OS Microsoft ever created and it will be alive for the next decades... Long live to Vista!
#3.1 mocax on 24 Sep 2008 - 14:29
Vista appears to fail because 90% of the hentai sex games couldn't work with it at release, their 200 yr old printers failed to work and their 55 level deep programs menu disappeared.

Thus people crieth foulest.

#3.2 vetmarkjensen on 24 Sep 2008 - 15:18
(mocax said @ #3.1)
Vista appears to fail because 90% of the hentai sex games couldn't work with it at release, their 200 yr old printers failed to work and their 55 level deep programs menu disappeared.

Thus people crieth foulest.
Thou usest hyperbole nonsense whenst thou speaketh.
#3.3 Foub on 24 Sep 2008 - 18:13
(markjensen said @ #3.2)
Thou usest hyperbole nonsense whenst thou speaketh.


Yeah, he should try going into politics. He'd fit perfectly.

Windows 7 = Vista SE = more people moving to something else.
#3.4 +Kirkburn on 25 Sep 2008 - 22:33
(Foub said @ #3.3)
(markjensen said @ #3.2)
Thou usest hyperbole nonsense whenst thou speaketh.


Yeah, he should try going into politics. He'd fit perfectly.

Windows 7 = Vista SE = more people moving to something else.

I didn't realise politicians spoke like they were straight out of Biblical times.

But hey, you followed it up with another anti-Windows rant, so all is well.
(1 reply) #4 ev0| on 24 Sep 2008 - 22:42
OS X ftw !
#4.1 excalpius on 24 Sep 2008 - 23:22
Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.
(3 replies) #5 virtorio on 25 Sep 2008 - 00:33
Just make it start-up/shutdown faster.
#5.1 excalpius on 25 Sep 2008 - 04:34
That is one of the major efforts of Windows 7. Vista is already MUCH faster than XP, and if you use Standby or Hibernate (these didn't work reliably under XP) Vista can boot up in seconds.
#5.2 _dandy_ on 25 Sep 2008 - 21:38
(virtorio said @ #1)
Just make it start-up/shutdown faster.


Even better, how about making it so you don't have to reboot to begin with?
#5.3 +Kirkburn on 25 Sep 2008 - 22:35
(_dandy_ said @ #5.2)
Even better, how about making it so you don't have to reboot to begin with?

Another thing Vista made big strides in.

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