With Windows 7 RC getting ready, Microsoft announced on Monday, the Windows 7 Ecosystem Readiness Program to help hardware and software partners (OEMs and ISVs) ensure that their existing applications, devices and systems will be compatible with Windows 7. The program provides partners with access to Windows 7 builds, development and test toolkits, technical documents, Windows Driver Kit, the Windows Logo Kit, application testing labs and other resources through Microsoft Connect to proceed with the compatability tests of Windows 7.Hardware developers can get tools and resources from the Windows Hardware Developer Central and Software developers can get their tools and resources from MSDN.
In a Q&A with Microsoft Presspass, Mike Nash, Corporate Vice President of Windows Product Management discusses the new program and how partners can prepare for the availability of Windows 7.
Nash said that the goal is to ensure that partners' existing hardware and applications are compatible with Windows 7 and to test and address any potential performance issues and to make sure their devices, applications and services can take full advantage of the new features.
Nash also added that many of the investments made for Windows 7 started with the development of Windows Vista. The reliability and security investments made in Windows Vista will be retained in Windows 7, making most applications that run on Windows Vista run on Windows 7.
Nash agreed that Windows 7 beta release was the most mature of any beta version of Windows so far.
Did you cry like this when you had to upgrade from Windows 95 to Windows 98? I would love to read your 'many comment and article" about Vista as I'm sure it's highly enlightening.
So it's time to move on, Software is always evolving and new releases are needed to support newer and better hardware..
Two points.... Firstly ... If you are happy with Vista, fine , stay with it, nobody is going to make you update to Seven.
Secondly ..... what happens when you buy a technology product ..... software, hardware, whatever..... it gets superseded by something else very soon after you buy it. For example: Nvidia graphics cards, hard drives with bigger capacities, Ram is another one, the i7 cpus only use DDR 3, if you currenly have DDR2 to bad.
Stop whinging in otherwords.
If I'd wasted that much money on Vista, I would probably be angry too.
Starter is for developing countries and is severely stripped down and sold for an extremely low price compared to the other versions. Nobody in the US should have to worry about this - Vista had it and XP had it too.
As for the Windows 7 release date, I still can't seem to figure out why people demand free copies of the OS for buying Vista. Microsoft didn't just give out free copies of Windows 98 to those who bought Windows 95 now did they? Honestly, I'm glad Microsoft is returning to their normal release schedule... the large gap between XP and Vista was quite annoying. (Especially because we knew about Longhorn so early on...)
If I'd wasted that much money on Vista, I would probably be angry too.
Exactly!!
Also, why are you crying? It's not like they are forcing you to buy it. If you like Vista, stay with it.
Two points.... Firstly ... If you are happy with Vista, fine , stay with it, nobody is going to make you update to Seven.
Don't take this personally, but this part is a little disingenuous. What if, instead of Vista vs. 7, we changed the scenario to XP vs. Vista? There are a LOT of people here on Neowin who put a LOT of pressure on XP users to upgrade to Vista. "XP sucks, it's old, let it die, XP needs to die, why does anyone anywhere ever support XP, etc." While it may well wind up being true that nobody will make him update to 7 if he's happy with Vista, there certainly are a lot of people who are trying to get people to update to Vista even though they're happy with XP and want to stay with it.
There's nothing to say the current peer-pressure to transition to Vista from XP isn't going to be there when it comes time to transition to 7 from Vista.
Whether its staying up to date and having the latest of everything, or because your favourite program just doesn't cut the mustard anymore.
Both are better than XP though.
Both are better than XP though.
+1
Wrong! Very few people hated it as much, especially comapred to Vista.
Indeed, because XP never was the utter failur that Vista is.
XP was certainly a great improvement over Win98, especially in terms of stability. Vista had very little improvements only, and a lot of things actually worked worse - poor performance, bad compatibility etc.
Whatever happened to taking beta seriously and going through ALL the user feedback - be it an icon issue up to a major piece? Make sure the product runs like the user wants it to rather than another vista. Yes, I know there are a lot of vista lovers out there. But, you need to consider that when you make a product and 50% of the threads are on how it doesn't work to the user's liking, there's a serious beta testing problem going on.
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The public RC build should be a month or two (maybe even more) away yet. Should be more than enough time to iron out most of the bugs.
i need to get a wma-to-mp3 converter..... before July....
Thanks for the enlightenment
6 = evil ;p
so
Vista = evil
system.out.println("me like vista"
system.out.println("me like evil"
i like java hahaah
Personally I like Vista. Not touched win7 but i am looking forward to getting it from what ive read/seen/heard its gonna be a good release
I dont think that i should get a free copy of 7 because i bought vista, i think i should get a free copy of 7 because i have 5 ultimate copies of vista and 2 home prem. i dont even count the Basic liscences that came with the two laptops i upgraded. that is alot of legitimate operating systems for a home user. I dont think asking for One freebe is too much to ask, considering ill eventualy upgrade them all anyway.
I guess the only reason i am resentful is that in doing high end video editing etc i am just afraid that there will be SOME feature in 7 that they will latch onto that will force my upgrade if i want to stay comeptitive and i feel it is jsut still too soon for them to be sqeezing another couple hundred buck outa me.
Thanks for all the positive repleis and frell to hell all the trolls
P.S. to the guy who wanted me to referance articles and Posts ill see what i can track down, they are on random news sites over the last two years, but i think you can find a couple if you google scaldari
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