PC Pro is reporting that, in a briefing at Microsoft's London headquarters, Microsoft's Windows OEM Manager, Laurence Painell has told there will be a couple of additional, quite major announcements regarding Windows 7 in the coming weeks.Painell claimed 99% of the top 200 software titles are already compatible with Windows 7 and that most of the applications compatible with Windows Vista will be compatible with Windows 7. Painell said that Microsoft is aware that the majority of businesses are still running Windows XP and that Microsoft will help companies to continue running Windows XP software on Windows 7 desktops through Enterprise Desktop Virtualisation (MED-V) software, but also added:
"There was some misconception that I [as a business] could skip Vista and go to Windows 7, and all those incompatibilities would go away. That's not the case."
If we are indeed getting some major announcements then we can expect some major upgrades for OEMs and if we are lucky enough, we can also expect the Windows 7 release dates. We earlier reported about the Windows 7 Upgrade Program being shifted to June 26, 2009 from June 28, 2009. According to the new schedule, end users who purchase PCs pre-installed with Windows Vista between the dates June 26, 2009 to January 31, 2010 are eligible for a free Windows 7 upgrade.
Neowin has already predicted that select testers can expect the RC Escrow build of Windows 7 later this April and a public RC release at the end of May. A page appeared earlier on Microsoft's TechNet website hinting May for the release of Windows 7 RC.
Well, that's why it's a surprise
WinFS + GUI Changes :-)
Oh, also... You know that software which runs older Win apps (by MS)? Well, yeah...
Please describe what WinFS does that we can't do today. Go ahead.
So true...
Name
facepalm
Hahaha!
I hope that the surprise is week numbers in the taskbar's calendar. We need them! It would be so easy to code that feature...let's hope the best.
Maybe the surprise could also be correct meaning of kilobytes, megabytes, etc. Current versions of Windows are showing file sizes INCORRECTLY. I have a 320 gigabyte HDD, but according to Windows, it is not a 320 gigabyte HDD!
Not that'd I'd turn down a free upgrade, jsut don't think it'd do them good PR, just give creedence to their critics, justified or not...and the justified are the microsocpic minority.
That would be awful nice... lol
hopefully... aero is hideous
Well it isn't like their recreating Aero from scratch. They're using Aero as the base theme so it goes without saying that the majority of the themes will look similar to the common base theme.
It doesn't even seem to be in the builds close to RC Escrow. So very, very doubtful.
The upgrade is still fairly pricey. If it were $20, I'd probably consider it. If not, I'll stick with Vista.
Are you serious? $20? What the hell do you think an OS is?
yes and it had all sorts of problems which were not solved untill sp2
Especially for those upgrading from Vista.
The only reason a business is stuck with XP is due to legacy apps. Windows 7 being built on Vista isnt going to change that situation. If thats not the case then you arent stuck with XP you're business just decided to stay in the backwaters for an excessive amount of time because no one in y our IT department would take the initiative to try vista post launch or sp1 edition.
Tossing in Virtual PC for free would be nice. If they can that is, might have legal problems with it from VMWare bitching.
We still have an RC to test.
"Congratulations to all testers, but Windows 7 is just the SP2 for Windows Vista."
Last edited by rm20010 on 04 Apr 2009 - 08:37
"Congratulations to all testers, but Windows 7 is just the SP2 for Windows Vista."
Of course, this is just silly thinking.
"Congratulations to all testers, but Windows 7 is just the SP2 for Windows Vista."
You're so funny .... not!
(Yes, I used the same level of humour)
Seriously now, it's getting old.
Agreed. It annoys me so much when misguided people say such things.
Can you imagine a guy continually repeating the same knock-knock for a year?
free upgrades for vista users because they are sorry that vista is so bad
Agreed. It needs to fit the squareness of the rest of the items.
That's strange. Because my neighbor's pet doctor has an ucle that know someone who works at MS and he said there won't be a UI change :?
From that bit ,it would seem to say Vista to 7 no probs, XP to 7 your in trouble, unless i misinterpret.
Unfortunate, but it happens. (Can't believe i'm saying that!)
2. Free Upgrade
Only two that really matter...
I was just going to mention Microsoft should make Windows 7 a free upgrade, but free to everyone who owns a copy of Windows Vista regardless of Vista's version...!
MS and "last minute" UI changes...Luna ring a bell?
The current UI is going in the right direction, I hope they will just keep refining that so we have a nice consistent UI.
MS and "last minute" UI changes...Luna ring a bell?
The current UI is going in the right direction, I hope they will just keep refining that so we have a nice consistent UI.
It looks to much like Vista right now and that makes it more difficult to sell.
MS and "last minute" UI changes...Luna ring a bell?
The current UI is going in the right direction, I hope they will just keep refining that so we have a nice consistent UI.
It looks to much like Vista right now and that makes it more difficult to sell.
Not really... the only thing thats really the same are the title bars.
MS and "last minute" UI changes...Luna ring a bell?
The current UI is going in the right direction, I hope they will just keep refining that so we have a nice consistent UI.
It looks to much like Vista right now and that makes it more difficult to sell.
It looks quite a bit different from Vista for anyone who looks beyond a screenshot. 7 is much more refined than Vista. Sure the glass and so is there but I don´t think a complete major overhaul to Windows is going to do any good. They should stick with a look and keep improving and refining that.
DUH do ya think so? Maybe this is why Microsoft has been recommending that businesses get started on Vista and not to wait around for Windows 7. Too bad you didn't pay any attention..
Painell claimed 99% of the top 200 software titles are already compatible with Windows 7
Really? And who has the authority to decide what the top 200 software titles are?
Microsoft is a business, there not going to develop this awesome new OS, then say to everyone oh yeah here you go, have it for free. It's an operating system for heavens sake, not a spyware remover..
At the end of the day you bought Vista, and you'll end up buying 7, and Microsoft know that. And the reality is that 90% of people i know are happy with Vista, and the remaining 10% are people who are only going by old anti-vista hype.
So I may be in that 10% of anti-vista folks, but its not because of people or media or any bad reviews... Its because the software literally does not work, even with SP1 and all the latest drivers. It crashes. With a Q6600 system, with a $300 asus mainboard. I install XP and it works. Same hardware, same configuration.. Its unacceptible to have it crashing. Its a waste of my license fee. Windows 7 hasn't crashed yet, even on a system with 1.3GHz 500MB ram... I am sure RTM will change that tho
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