Friday, July 20th 2007
Windows Vienna In No less Than 3 Years ?
At Microsoft's Global Exchange annual sales conference in Orlando this week, Microsoft stated that it is anticipating it will take at least three years from now to get the next version of Windows client out the door. Microsoft officials told MGX attendees that the company is currently internally planning Windows Seven. So far, the company has determined Windows Seven will come in both 32 and 64-bit flavors. No word on how many SKUs or any kind of guidance on features was provided, but Microsoft did say it would address both consumer and business segments with Windows Seven. Microsoft is mulling the concept of how to extend Windows Seven with subscription-based services, according to the deck - more like Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), which Microsoft currently offers to its Software Assurance customers, than Windows Live, however.
Microsoft's statement:
Source:
Zdnet
Microsoft's statement:
As part of our ongoing outreach to enterprise customers and partners, Microsoft has begun sharing plans for how they will continue to deliver value to businesses in the future, including Software Assurance customers in particular. As part of this, we are sharing some preliminary information on Windows '7' - the internal name for the next version of the Windows Client OS - as well as updates on other future Windows-related releases such as the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack. Microsoft is scoping Windows '7' development to a three-year timeframe, and then the specific release date will ultimately be determined by meeting the quality bar. In the meantime, Microsoft is dedicated to helping customers deploy and get the most business value from their PCs using Windows Vista and related technologies like the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack, and we're encouraged by the response and adoption of these products so far.
24 Comments on Windows Vienna In No less Than 3 Years ?
Why a new OS so quickly? Just make Vista better you morons..
Two cards with 1Gg each of memory, any memory on the sound card, all your PCI-Express addresses, PCI, Onboard.
And you end up with 1Gb of room left for physical system memory.
No thanks. 64 for me on my next build.
But it could boost sales for people that will have old machines and dream they can run Microsoft's newest OS :)
Microsoft needs to cut the 32 bit lifeline right now, or they are never going to fill out a 64 bit transition with decent hardware support.
They've finally reached a point where 32 bit computers wont ever be upgraded to vista, so why bother. XP does its job, and does it well.
Theres little reason Microsoft shouldn't have kept Vista 64 bit only.
They scrapped so much of NT with it, why rebuild it twice? They beefed up hardware requirements, enticing people to upgrade hardware. dual OS's also gives great increases in support costs for both Microsoft and hardware manufacturers.
Simply keeping XP 32 bit and offering a 64bit Vista would have had a little fidgeting from the 32 bit user base at first, but would have given Microsoft a much cleaner upgrade execution, and an actual incentive to upgrade to windows vista.
When is going to be right time to force the move? It's getting old. Why do people that use x64 sound upset? Folks that want to use x64 are stuck with 32bit if they want reliable support and quality drivers. You end up with crap support and crap drivers for x64.
I use XP SP-2 and Vista x64. Right now there is no comparison in gaming. XP-SP-2 is not only faster it's smoother and more reliable. That could change if MS had the balls to say, "We're moving to x64 folks. It's time." Instead they say, "Oh well, there's no consumer demand.", and there never will be the way they are handling it.
As another said Vista would have been a much better product if it had been purely x64, particularly where security is concerned.
The move certainly doesn't need to be over night and they should have started a push towards it back when Win XP Professional x64 was released.
make the devs build and optimise it on a 1ghz 64bit system so that the world can benefit from a new os that might actually boost productivity ;)