Vista successor due in 2009

[Martrae]

Several industry sources have confirmed to TG Daily that a very early version of Windows 7, previously code-named Blackcomb Vienna, already has been shipped to “key partners” as a “Milestone 1” (M1) code drop for validation purposes. A roadmap received by TG Daily indicates that the new operating system will be introduced in the second half of 2009.

While it has generally been believed that Windows 7 was scheduled for a 2010 debut, Microsoft has revised the roadmap and apparently moved up the release date by a few months: A recently distributed roadmap of the OS lists a release to manufacturing in H2 2009. Microsoft declined to comment on this date.

The current M1 drop is available to Microsoft partners in English only and has shipped in x86 and x64 versions. An interesting feature that has been highlighted by Microsoft is the ability of the M1 software to handle a heterogeneous graphics system consisting of multiple graphics cards from different vendors. A new version of the Media center is already integrated in this software, but supports PC speakers only at this time.

If Microsoft will be able to keep the H2 2009 RTM (and most likely) release date in place, the company will have two busy. The M2 code drop is currently scheduled for April/May 2008, M3 will follow in the third quarter. The dates for the first Beta and the release candidate are still listed as “To be determined” but it doesn’t take much to see that the first beta versions could become available a year from now.

We will have more clarity on when we could see Windows 7 going into production will when Microsoft announces Windows Logo Program Changes for Windows 7. According to the policy of the firm, these changes will be announced 18 months prior to the scheduled RTM.

There are very few pieces of information about Windows 7 and the features it will bring available at this time. So far, we have heard only about new touchscreen features as well as – and probably most interesting – MinWin, a much smaller kernel of the operating system that takes up only 40 MB of memory.



I guess this is the WinME/Win2000 story all over again.

[Tossica]

If it's true it sounds like an embedded replacement or something more industrial. It doesn't sounds like a desktop OS.

[Tikker]

beta for the newest media center version has been running for about a year now

[Jay]

lol Vista successor. I'm still running XP

[Harrison]

Because vista's a piece of shit.

[Kramer]

yeah. any new comp i get will have xp

[Martrae]

Good luck with finding one without it.

[Kramer]

i have seen stores starting to advertise certificates for backwards licensing to XP.... pretty sweet. and usually it's to the uber version of XP in exchange for giving up the license for the basic vista version.

[Yamori]

Windows 98 is still my favorite. XP was worse than that, and Vista is even worse. Each version just gets laggier and more difficult to troubleshoot. Yuck.

[10sun]

Windows 98 is still my favorite. XP was worse than that, and Vista is even worse. Each version just gets laggier and more difficult to troubleshoot. Yuck.

Wrong!

Win2k was the pinnacle.

Running a stripped down version of XP now. Footprint is still over 1gb & I don't like that.

I remember my Windows 95 install only taking up like 50mb... I deleted it because I still preferred MS-DOS & I could install Doom where Win95 was taking up space.

-Adam

[Tikker]

XP has been by far the most stable platform I've had at home

win2k is pretty close, but I've found I had to tinker with drivers for certain laptops when using it



that being said, I just decommissioned an AIX server about a month ago that was running on it's 6th year of uptime

[Lyion]

XP has been by far the most stable platform I've had at home

You've never run an apple or linux platform at home, then, which surprises me.

Although comically now that Apple has a good shot at winning over some market share, they release Leopard, arguably the worst OS ever.

[Tikker]

we actually had an apple for a while

it never crashed, but it didn't have anything on it worth using either tho


linux in general sucks donkey balls compared to real unix, so have never bothered with it at home