Comments on: Keyboard, mouse to get company in Windows 7

Natural interfaces such as touch, speech and ink will play a much bigger role in the successor to Windows Vista, Chairman Bill Gates tells CNET News.com.

[R. U. Sirius]

Yawn...

After this Vista debacle I could care less what Microsoft does with Windows. I have XP, and when I'm done with XP, it's onto Linux and/or OSX.

[rhsc]

re Yawn

why comment then?

[loki_racer]

You could care less...

I really couldn't care less if you could care less.

I wish people would learn that they sound like idiots when they say 'could care less.'

[GO ILLINI]

ohh no

before you start releasing a new os why not improve the ones we have? Vista should get to at least SP2 before a new one comes out... All that money into vista and then just ditching it for windows 7?

good ol willie is so OCD

[frankwick]

evolution of the OS

Actually, Windows 7 will be a new version of Vista just like Vista is a new version of Server 2003. The underpinnings are the same.

Yes, they maintain older releases with SP and I'm sure that won't change when 7 ships. In fact, many of the fixes that are developed for 7 will be included in Vista SP2 or SP3.

[Timcal]

Oh boy

It might work, but it will slow things down and we'll beat the screen to death. lol

[SeizeCTRL]

2 - 3 years away

By that time everyone should have at least a dual core, and hopefully quad or more.

If you are using a single core celeron / semperon by the time Windows 7 comes out, then you sort of deserve the slowness if you decide to upgrade.

[MaLvaDo39]

Bill Gates can read!

...the huge writing on the wall that OTHER companies are already
implementing...touch *cough* Apple... accessibility *cough*
Apple...

[DrtyDogg]

Actually

He is talking more on the lines of Tablet PC you know the touch screen pc microsoft put out 6 years ago, and Speech recoginition, which has been in th OS since ME, getting a bigger spotlight. But thanks for remindin us that other companies are picking up on the trends.

[Dango517]

Would some one please strap B. Gates to a treadmill

I really don't feel like being Wiied by Microsoft. Is Wiied a word? :)

[frankwick]

Tablets?

Tablets have been around since 2001-2ish with XP Tablet Edition. Microsoft's lack of consumer oriented marketing has kept these unknown for the most part. It's interesting that the iphone may drive sales of Windows Tablets. (It has been rumored that Apple has been working on a tablet for years, but can't get it working.)

[jlm429]

apple innovates, microsoft dominates.

deal with it.

[Lee in San Diego]

Troll

n/t

[ferretboy88]

Apple people get sex changes

Its seems that Apple folks have nothing in common with normal people. The interviewer was a man and now is a woman. That is crazy.

[frankwick]

really?

If you believe everything Jobs says, then I can see why you would say that. However, if you open your eyes you will see that innovations comes from a lot of places. I would say that MS has innovated more than Apple over the years. Apple innovates a lot of look and feel items, but MS has the whole driver model, usable features, etc...

Apple has better marketing.

[Penguinisto]

Eh?

Who were you responding to?

FWIW, Apple innovates a lot of core items in addition to mere "look+feel".

Compare OSX to MacOS9... OSX is nowhere near as bloated, it is far more nimble, and it doesn't require a monster multi-core chip and a metric ton of RAM just to respond to the user at something approaching real-time ;)

Personally, I think the biggest hotbed of core innovation comes from places like Linux, FreeBSD, and the like. There, you get to see some pretty revolutionary things coming to existence right out of thin air (e.g. journaled filesystems, package management, new UI concepts, etc). She's a little young, she's a little unrefined, but damn can she ever move... ;)

/P

[ethana2]

new xorg coming soon...

..featuring multiple keyboard and mouse focuses with support for legacy 1 keyboard, 1 mouse apps.

I've been eying buying a tablet for some time now, but Dell hasn't got the XT on their Ubuntu lineup yet.
www.dell.com/ubuntu

[Dalkorian]

wanna buy a bridge in Brooklyn?

Maybe my memory is getting a little fuzzy, but wasn't the
bloated garbage pile known as asta-la-vista supposed to come
with a new file system, a revolutionary new file system at that?
Anyone care to argue that NTFS is that revolutionary new file
system? I didn't think so.

I'll believe it when I read about it in a review. I'll never
experience it myself because I have to much self esteem to
become a slave to the evil Micro$loth empire. I just don't hate
myself that much anymore, I got better.

[Rádi Pál]

My do not know comment/ IE7 pro mouse function professional /keyboard hot keys excellent > Ie8 emulate IE7 function professional <Ina sorry> pal