With the holiday season approaching us, Microsoft has planned to release its Windows 7 to your desktop as early as next holiday season 2009, Doug Howe, a spokesperson for Microsoft said. "Definitely the holiday focus is going to be on 7" Howe said, hinting that Windows 7 could be running on your desktop next holiday season. Still in early stages of their Windows 7 beta, Microsoft could once again be rushing their next operating system to RTM, like Vista was.
If Microsoft pushes for the 2009 holiday season, leaving just a little over one year until the estimated release date for Windows 7, this could deter users from jumping onto the next major release from Microsoft, like many did with Windows Vista.
Even with a very impressive demonstration of Microsoft's Windows 7 Operating System at PDC 2008, are hardware manufactures going to be ready with the promised touch screen interface that comes loaded in Windows 7?
Microsoft stated the next few months are critical, as it focuses on approving start up and shut down times, as well as wake up and sleep times. This period will also focus on shipping Windows 7 with compatible, stable drivers and software that has been prove to be Vista-compatible.
To me, Windows 7 just seems like Vista 1.5. Yes, there are a few new things, but didn't XPSP2 bring in a lot of new features as well?
Will probably go main OS around beta depending. For sure by RC.
Oh the days of Whistler Beta's and then LH beta's man win 7 hasn't even been fun hardly in comparison. remember those days cream??
El
Read up on all the changes in some of the threads here.
Ever get the feeling that Microsoft just can't win?
When Windows Vista was first released to the public, pre SP1, there were alsorts of problems. Disk I/O performance and network performance being key. Microsoft had also done a good job of dumbing down the OS, an example of that is the built in disk defragmentor, absolutely no user feedback at all.
Don't get me wrong, I believe Vista is a step in the right direction and Since SP1 a lot of issues have gone. My main gripe is, give it 4GB RAM and somehow, regardless of what your running, it will eat it.
I look forward to Windows 7
You obviously have no idea how Vista works. Go read up on it's memory management.
Posts like this really annoy me as they just demonstrate the poster's complete lack of knowledge about how Vista works. If you've got 4gb of memory, It's SUPPOSED to use (eat) it! That's one of the best features of Vista. It's called Superfetch.
Basically it pre-loads the applications you use most frequently into unused RAM so the next time you need to launch them they load much quicker than normal. The best part of it is that when you actually need the RAM for another process (gaming, video editing, etc) it instantly releases the RAM that Superfetch is using.
To me that system is far superior to how it worked before, where you'd have 3+gb of memory sitting there unused (wasted). I'd much rather it be put to use for my benefit so long as it doesn't cause me any detriment.
Vista SP2 is rock solid. From all the reviews, Win7 seems to be very solid also.
How is ? 5 years for Vista to go RTM rushing it out the door?
Windows 7 will get here when it get here!!
it start to bug the hell out of me the way ever on goes on about it been RTM early and it been rush as vista bad.
Vista get a 10 out of 10 for me.
When windows 7 get here I say it be a 12 out of 10 if the leaked build is any thing to go bye.
I will still be keeping Vista on one of my system even when windows 7 is out as vista is great OS
on the 5 year cycle for Vista. Vista did not have a 5 year cycle, there was this little thing called XP sp2 that took up significant Windows developers cycles.
It also reset the basis of what was to become Longhorn, and was relatively rushed from the time of sp2 completetion to vista release.
Granted after SP1 Vista has become stable (had issues where it was nearly a 4 hour boot time on my Laptop for instance) BTW SP2 makes SP1 vista look like a very unstable system.
But it is related to drivers as the main pain points.
El
Hopefully we can get it next year.
I am seriously considering switching to OS X. At least then I could host VM's and take advantage of my full 8GB of RAM. While I'm not impressed by OS X as a server OS, it is a decent desktop OS. I'd be willing to give VMware Fusion a try to provide my favorite Window's apps for those that I couldn't fine decent Mac equivalents. I know, sounds drastic, but that helps demonstrate how bad my experience with 2008 has been. Win 7 better be good, or I might swear off Microsoft desktop OS'. I switched from the Mac to Windows as my productivity OS 10 years ago; I can always do the reverse if it's advantageous enough.
Why the hell would you want to deal with P tables and Virtual memory techniques to extend beyond the hardware limit of 4 gigs?? It would not be a flat table method and the program would have to be aware (which those that do mostly in the server realm (btw 32 bit servers do use the techniques to extend up into the terabytes of memory)
There is a reason that Servers are moving to 64 bit just to simplify memory access.
el
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