Comments on: Next version of Windows: Call it 7

Microsoft is planning to ship its next major version of Windows--known internally as version "7"--within roughly three years, CNET News.com has learned.

[mike.gw]

Software Assurance Program a crock!!!

SA is nothing more than Microsoft's efforts to guarantee revenue upfront. They use the fear of paying potentially higher software upgrade costs to sell this "insurance program" that guarantees upgrades with a 3 year cycle. Long gone are the volume license discounts that businesses once negotiated.

There was no compelling reason to rush to upgrade your corporate network clients from Win2K to XP, esp if you had the perimeter secured with firewall, antivirus, spam and central workstation management. There has been no compelling reasons to upgrade Office ever since Office 97. Microsoft knows this, but like a good monopoly, they use their dominant market position to secure your revenue upfront, without showing you any potential value.

Say NO to Software Assurance! Teach Microsoft to earn money the old fashioned way... by showing us the value of upgrading their products.

[achimera]

achimera

If you simply do this in XP:

1. Click Start
2. Click Run...
3. Type "winver", and hit OK

You would see that XP is Version 5.1 *******.

[there can be only one]

if Apple does copy

at least theirs makes it to market. I use Windows XP at work and
the boss just upgraded to Vista. What a complete joke.

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

I've i got a name for it.

Windows Cryonus

The name is because more than just being expediend or working a vista It can habor technology well for the developments in the future infastruction of computing application and allow the user to take advantage as it unfolds.

then the one after that the next one can be a little longer in the waiting while every one is getting fully developed in the expanses of what will be capable.
The name for that windows
Windows Rapture

Oh well at least i had a go

[shane--2008]

MS says within 3 years

so based on the vista timeline it will ship in....

...carry the 3....

.....2037?

[iBuzz]

Fool Me Six Times, Shame On You...

Fool me a seventh time... shame on me.

[sergiovf]

That is not part of the enterprise ethos in today's USA

"IF YOU CAN'T CONVINCE THEM WITH YOUR ELOQUENCY,
CONFOUND THEM WITH YOUR BULL"
this is today's ethos.

[wildchild_plasma_gyro]

Intelligence agencies boycott EMF shielding materials

yet the only reason i'm a psyciatric patient is because i reckon these technologies are more than capable of triangulating monotones and picking up piggy back signals at diffrent instances while also being able to mimik other stuff.
If thats true then EMF shielding would solve it yet i've had much trouble obtaining it.
I don't care how much that industry is the possible loss there is to that industry being fair ain't worth as much as my life exsistance.
Go on deny it now!

[morrie 52]

tiknologie not leading to peacefull mind?

wildy I think I know were your coming from for I to have been patient just like you,have you tried square of the hypotoneuse with multisound much more improving,and I now can handle said problems especially when not using pop group energy forces,just let negetive ions being emitted from tiknologies wash over your neurons and the world will be as one.

[flyinghat]

Covert messages

Looks like covert messaging rather than anything meaningful.

[camelot1968]

One word - Ubuntu

Is Microsoft even relevant going forward with as bad as Vista and the great options that are out there.

[kromaethius007]

Fanboy, Wake Up

Ubantu is the Canary attempting to break wind and be heard in a hurrican of PC reality here in the real world. Though Linux in general is making leaps and bounds, let's keep it real. Reality says that in general, Linux is near obscurity in comparison with the "establishment." Windows is still the workhorse of the Enterprise, business, and personal computing platforms.

Apple owns the lions share of the "other" or non MS operating systems -- Besides, Linux is UNIX anyway and I sure am tired of listening to the shrills out there clammering how original Linux is -- It's just an open source version of UNIX that will not make a real dent in the market for quite some time.

Wanna get something really done and communicate in the business world -- Looks like Windows will dominate (realisically) for quite some time. Want to use a premium system, use Apple hardware and software, want to use the fringe, use the open sorce UNIX called Linux and really see where that really gets you... (Not very far).

As for the Linux Canaries breaking wind in the hurrican of reality -- Careful not to blow out your ***** too much. =;o)

[pisceandelusions]

Only 3 Years and still 10 years behind OS X

I think it's hilarious that Microsoft is going to attempt to put
together it's next unstable, bloated, aging and most overhyped
product of all time - Windows, version 7 within 3 years.
Whenever it gets here, it will still probably be about 10 years
behind Mac OS X.

I feel really bad for anyone who is still brianwashed or just too
stubborn to give the Macintosh a fair run, because it really is a
far superior machine in so many ways, there really is no
argument.

Every time I have to sit down on a Windows machine, I am
constantly reminded of why I choose to use Apple products and
have continued to do so for the past 12 years.

Go ahead and keep using your Windows, it helps people make
lots of money when they have to repair and troubleshoot your
equipment. I'll stick with Apple.

http://www.pisceandelusions.org

[whizkid454]

How can you be so ignorant?

This new version is supposed to be a complete redesign of the OS internal code. How can you say it's 10 years behind OS X when it could very well be three years ahead of it once it's released? Keep your mouth shut until something happens.

[SeizeCTRL]

LMAO!!!

Dude, that's freaking hilarious!

You almost had me, I was like man, he is serious, then I saw the part about Microsoft people being brainwashed and then I knew you had to be joking!!!

Apple people are are the epitome of brainwashed... you guys are like a fashion cult with over priced tech gear.

[Mister Winky]

Too Arrogant

Count me as someone who started with Apples way back in the day (Apple IIe, baby!), but never liked the Mac platform. Yes, I PREFER Windows over OS X having used both extensively.

I often recommend Macs to family members and friends because I do think that they're easier to use for many people to use and keep secure, but the Mac interface doesn't resonate with me and the hardware, while nicely designed, offers limited choice.

If you really think that there are no smart, experienced, computer literate people who simply prefer to use Windows because they like it better, you are blind and arrogant. If Macs were so obviously superior, they would have more market share than they do. Wake up.

-Mister Winky

[morrie 52]

apple over windows

The reason why I and countless humans and others(countem)that the defacto market leader is windows with that comes competition to produce cheaper product more games,I personally prefer apple but add previous comment but price and verying products wins me,all a bit like vhs and beta the best product lost.

[DarwinOs]

why dispute about an OS?

I have OS X tiger and XP Pro and SUSE UBontu& Fedora. They all have pro's and con's I like windows cause of the fact that everybody develops for the them and linux for the security and really makes you learn how to use an OS. and mac for it's simple yet challenging interface. only thing I hate about my mac is that everything is MAC MAC MAC it's gotta be there way or well just there way..

[EricoDeBegeraque]

Heeee eeee !! Drrrrrrrrrr!! Dop!!

Heeeemmmm! Dop! You are wrong... Windows Vista (an XP too) is not comparable to MaxOS X ...

The OS kernel of Microsoft is really really more technologically powerfull than the MacOS X Kernel... And not just a little!!

10 years behind Mac OS X... We always see ignorant people telling that kind of stupidity!! Dop!! Microsoft have the must powerfull OS kernel on the maket actually since Windows NT 5...

When a company own 90% of the market this is surly because it do wrong!!!

A little sarcasm here...

Also ... I don't understand your point about troubleshooting equipement... Equipement is not the resposability of Microsoft!! This is true that MacOX hardware is of best quality but ... Microsoft Windows have to deal with a bunch of esolteric hardware brand and it do well!! This is not the responsibility of the Windows OS if people put cheap hardware on their machine that cause hardware isue...

Also this is ot really the responsability of Microsoft if the hardware companies do bad device driver...

HO yeah ... Apple have not these problems...
If you try to install a legacy hardware on your Mac what will append? ... Ho ... it will not work Ho... If you decide to buy a special hardware to manage somthing on your Mac and ... Ho it will not work or you will have to write your own device driver... Ho ... hmmm but it will work on my windows XP/Vista machine...

You can try to hit the head of microsoft... Try to destroy the reputation of their OS ... but the fact is microsoft own 90% of the OS market because their OS are the most powerfull on the market and the most accessible on the market.... But you are right... The graphical user interface of the Mac OS X is cute...

[Joshxy]

It has to be 10 (X!)

Obviously, because this year + 3 years = 2010.
So M$ will surely continue their copying the MacOS game by
coming out with Windows X.

[frankwick]

So if what you say is true...

...Apple copied the UNIX world. Does "X Windows" sound familiar?

[amanfromMars]

MuI7......... Vista Driveby/MS Heart Bypass Operating System

If it is not a Optimised Virtualised Operating System ..... Running S.M.A.R.Ts. in AI Seventh Heaven, Global Communications HQ Earth Simulation, it aint gonna be Current ....for Power Players and that will render 7, a lemon.

In other terms, if the OS is based on any State of Persistent Memory rather than being Reliant on Excellent Imagination, it will not be good enough.... for such are the Current development fields for Future Mobilised and Mobilising HPC Needs and Feeds.

Would Microsoft like to deny that Publicly ..... or can they confirm IT with further clarification and explanation?

[Ted Miller]

Well Microsoft

I just finished reading all of thes comments and come to conclude that your customers are not very happy with your product.

Did you hear them? Probably not.

Sad isn't it. A company rich with so much potental.

[sergiovf]

You are good!

It is not about Nike shoes, it is about shoes !
It was always about a TOOL, not a branding.
I learned it from a Wall Street banking brander Asian-American
working for a real HUGE world wide banking emporium.
It is BRANDING..., the business model is about branding.
And branding and quality are divorced in the progression of
American socio-cultural values.
I would put my head on the pike if the American Nazi Party
headquarter computers would be using Apple PC's or....even
better, regular cloney PC's with Linux/GNU OS. That would not be
the right-wing SUPER AMERICAN branding that the neo-nazis
here need. They need Windows, OF COURSE !!! and if I could
sneak in their headquarters, that is what I would find.
Sooo, GIVE ME WINDOWS OR GIVE ME DEATH !!!
(an american patriot)
A pat on the back, that is all MS got for being such nice boyz
after the review of their Anti-Trust case that lasted 5 long years
and was resolved THEY ARE A MONOPOLY WITHOUT A DOUBT...
keep it up boyz~~~
The pat happened in Bush's gov't but it could have happened in
our next president's gov't - Mrs. Clinton.
It is all in the SYSTEM. built-in like with computers

[gravityfactory]

Oh Great OSX...

I got an iMac G5 in 2005. Now it's a doorstop,
other than Final Cut, it was worthless. Regretted the purchase the first hour I got it. Say bye to the backspace key - copying files over files in another folder (appending) OSX has never heard of it. Windows is't perfect, but it gets the job done.

[morrie 52]

woooo

Jese you guy very rich can use g5 as doorstop scared to ask what keep back gate open wiv.

[athloi]

Keep moving forward

The biggest whine about Windows was that it was archaic, super-complex, hard to keep stable. They're working toward a fix. In the interim, there will be some chaos. Stop your hypocrisy whiners!

[thedreaming]

Too Soon

I really think they should concentrate on making Vista the workhorse that XP is now. Everything under the sun runs under XP and once vista is the same, then they should make a new os, but it's just too soon for '7'.

[LuvThatCO2]

Might not be as big a change

It wont necessarily be as big a change as it was between xp and vista.

[sergiovf]

The only blissfully ignorant of the track history of M$ is you!

It is all about LEGACY LEGACY LEGACY, not NEW CODE NEW CODE
NEW CODE.
Get your MS history corrected before you infuriate your not so
stupid audience with your idiotic remarks.

[Xenu7-214951314497503184010868]

Call it DOS

Call it DOS 7.

[viper396]

RE:Call it DOS

{yawn} How original. Suprised you didn't also find some asanine way to include the "M$" spelling into you pointless comment.

If you're a Mac user then go play with your Mac and try to find something usefull to do with it, same goes for you Linux users. Otherwise, every time some Mac/Linux fanboy user interjects some retorica comments into a discussion thread about Windows it only proves how insecure those idiots are about their bad choice in operating systems. If those OS'es were so great they wouldn't have to spent half their time trolling the web trying to prove it.

[GeoNorth]

Information...

...it ain't based on DOS

[poordirtfarmer]

subscription model

? considering a subscription model ? You can bet they are! Microsoft will eventually attempt to manipulate the marketplace into accepting a subscription OS like a utility service (Like monthly garbage pickup & sewer). I?m sure they?ve got lawyers and dreamers scheming up something sinister right now. This way they?ll not only get the latitude to put on our machines exactly what they want, but they?ll be insured of the huge annual revenues to which they?ve become accustomed, and with no need to actually create something new of sufficient value to entice sales. If revenue is dependent upon creativity and added customer value, they will soon be in trouble.

For goodness sake, then how could what?s-his-name maintain his 400 ft (or so) luxury super-yacht.

[bluemist9999]

Desired features in Windows 7

Keep Vista's improved security. Remove the mandatory DRM, and streamline the OS so it runs well without eating 512 MB of RAM while idling.

Of course, out of these, only #1 is likely. #2 is politically as likely as pigs flying, while #3 would require removing or at least disabling certain features by default.

More likely, the DRM will be extended to control more hardware and prevent unapproved software packages from running without popping up a lot of warnings. They'll add more features, gobbling up more RAM.

Personally, I think Windows XP is the best Microsoft OS there is. Even when it first came out, it ran pretty well with existing applications.

[jcolletta275]

XP is good. 7 needs to be AMAZING.

I agree XP is the best Windows yet. Since I upgraded to it, I haven't had the desire to return to any older version, nor do I have any desire to upgrade to Vista.

7 needs to be everything Vista was SUPPOSED to be but wasn't AND MORE. Microsoft needs to show the world they're committed to innovating, not just building on yesterday's technology (which is what every Windows except NT has been to date). If not, it's nothing less than more empty promises and pseudo-vaporware from Redmond.

[eingy]

I aggree

Since I have Had XP. It Was Great... But Then I upgraded To VISTA.
IT SUCKED. Now i have a Apple iMac I WILL NEVER GO BACK TO
MICROSOFT IN A MILLION YEARS UNLESS THEY MAKE THE BEST
UPGRADE BETTER THEN XP

[West11]

the quality bar

the thieves at Microsoft haven't hit the bar for '98, 2000, ME(millions of errors), XP or Vista. As matter of fact they gotten less close on each attempt except Me, which didn't meet any standards--not unacceptable. Can we depend on their promise not release 7 until it hits the bar? If so, then there will not be any new MS OS in the future because based on their track record they've consistently failed.