Some rumors emerged the other day which basically suggested that it could very well be possible for a Windows 7 release in mid 2009 according to a new article posted at Internet News which mentioned that an internal Microsoft calendar listed June 3, 2009 as the planned release date of Windows 7 which would just been in less than 10 months from today on.
According to the source Microsoft will release a first public beta on October 27 at the Professional Developer’s Conference. If those information are correct the beta phase of Windows 7 would be about 7-8 months which is a month or two less than the beta latest for Windows XP and about half the time for Windows Vista. That would make sense because Microsoft surely wanted to reduce the beta phase from being 15 months to something less than that and a cut in half would be a great achievement.
Given that Windows 7 is looking to be mostly Windows Vista with a few cosmetic makeovers.. It’s actually a surprise its taking them so long to release it!!
 Nb. As for Multi-touch its no more than a hardware driver, which doesn’t need a year to make.. Â
If Microsoft wants do hurt peoples feelings then they would make it pointless version but hopefully rumors are true and it will be freaking small , fast and stable with better security.
Currently it's their last try do awake the Longhorn project because WIn8 or Midori is too far away and Linux or Mac would get more attention if they really planned do ruin peoples suggestions.
Just afto wait more details of how is the newest milestone3 in size and speed compared do Vista and XP , M3 was said do be out….
""Given that Windows 7 is looking to be mostly Windows Vista with a few cosmetic makeovers.. It’s actually a surprise its taking them so long to release it!!""
It is based on Vista's bare source – Although it will look quite similar, it will have undergone major coding changes.
Based on vista is ok, as long as they fix it. From Win7 I want 2 things.
1 Performance. It should run at least as fast as XP. On the EXACT SAME HARDWARE. (My expensive cpu is to run apps, not the os.)
2 Better reliability and security. But not at the cost of loads of ram and cpu cycles.
I dont want sidebars, or “enhanced search function†(if you cant find stuff on your own hard disk with XP search, your doing something horibly wrong) And most of all I dont want to replace my current PC, which does everything I want at a good speed, just to get support for vista/win7 stuff that could work on xp if only they botherd to make it.
In my opinion, as humble as it may be, I currently use XP Pro at home and in the office. From what I’ve seen of Vista, I really like it, and I would love to use it but what worries me is the software compatibility.
I work in a computer store, and [we] use much software that [MS] hadn’t bothered to make compatible with Windows Vista. As an independant artist, [at home] I use programs like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, e-Frontier Poser. These programs as well were not created [by MS] with co-operative funtionality in mind. For me personally, and my art, it would be far less costly to just switch to Macintosh all together, as some of my software can be installed on both Windows & Mac computers.
Microsoft really needs to give their head a shake, as this reminds me exactly the situation where Manitoba and other provinces decided to become “cigarette smoke free.” What happened there? Certain cities at first, then WHOLE PROVINCES went 100% smoke free in their public buildings. Here is the result of this: Bars, restaurants, other establishments – LOST CUSTOMERS. If you DO NOT give your customers THE CHOICE whether they CAN or CANNOT do something, guess what: People are going to EXCERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO MAKE A CHOICE, and might very well find something different.
I’ll be the engineers [at MS] don’t see this in their statistics as well.
Again, that’s just my humble opinion. Thanks for reading.
to Jen:
“I work in a computer store, and [we] use much software that [MS] hadn’t bothered to make compatible with Windows Vista”. MS does not make the software compatible with Vista it is Software Titles responsibility to make compatible with vista by releasing updates or new versions