Windows 7 next year!!!!????

Contrary to popular belief, those guys @ Ms are not just sitting around eating doughnuts and exploring their stock options. There is always something in the oven. I think Vista itself will have a longer life than people imagine. Seven out next year? I dunno.. Bill is such a good pitch guy, he could sell winter coats at the beach. My understanding is that 7 will break away from the backward compatiable modeling of their DLLibrary sytem into new terriority. That would be different. Course, we just see their options as it fits our needs, they have the whole world to wrestle with. The EU, appears to have a bug up their .... to get at MS.. and ever present is the current agrrement over their anti-trust agreement w/ the feds.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic...

I for one would welcome a lean mean MicroSoft machine. The more options I have, the better off I feel about life and computing!

I very much doubt this will happen as Vista has only just come good.

If anything now that Vista has improved they will hold Windows 7 off til' around 2012.

If I was them that is how I would do it, so I could earn some real revenue from Vista now that it is decent.

LUg.

Edit :

Many people consider Vista to be the BETA release of Windows 7 anyway.

LUg.

Edit 2 :

Re : Microsoft gives up on Vista.

I still don't believe it, besides don't believe a word of what you read in the press, as has been proven on countless occasions. Anyhow I don't know why we should worry, you use OpenSUSE and I use Ubuntu, both of which are superior.

One thing of note if this does happen suddenly we willl have the ' isn't vista wonderful brigade' they will all be former members of the ' vista sucks brigade '

How fickle people are.

LUg.

Edit 3 :

Now that SP1 has been released I like Vista, where I used to despise it. Vista has now overtaken XP and its demise has surely been accelerated with a final release of SP3 looking increasingly unlikely, even though it is in the RC stage.

Vista is now a good operating system, it just had a screwed up beginning which no one can deny.

OK so it will never have the pull of Linux and all the niceties of Compiz Fusion, but for the average Joe Bloggs Vista will be just fine.

LUg.

Bill Gates and Microsoft made vista this year and A LOT of people said it was no good whatsoever. Microsoft are making another one as to compensate for the other.

I hope it'll be good - I think it will

There could be one of two reasons for this. 1) They want to kill XP off once and for all. 2) They recognize that Vista hasn't been received well in general. Or maybe both Good luck. LUg. Edit : Microsoft 'The Possibilties' Question is will it work ? Remember speech recognition !

Woah

Personally, I thought Vista was getting on the right track.

It'll probably come out later than 2009, though.

A lot of Vista users will be mad that their OS is going to be outdated so soon

MiserableEdition = 2000 - XP = 2002

Vista = 2007 - 7 = 2009 looks plausible

That's my reason to skip vista, and go from xp to 7.

Maybe 7 will contain a lot of vista code, just like xp was based on win2k

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I guess that it will be the testing stage. Microsoft still needs to make more money out of Vista.

The next year (2009) is a mabe...I would look 4 it in 2010 along with IE8.

Yeah i also heard that they will make a new operating system called windows 7! if you believe on the links, then believe it, i believe whatever wikipedia says, i Trust wikipedia...

here is the link about windows 7 from wikipedia....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7