Next version of Windows: Call it 7

[mrapoc]

I heard vista was just rebuilt upon previous versions, same applies for xp and so on. Basically we are still running on a souped 16-bit interface?

 

[K3Y]

i hope to god they actually make this one work good instead of spending too much time on aesthetics and pointless resource robbers.

At a lan over the weekend, the only vista machine was the only thing to cause network trouble. Why is it that a mac networks faster, easier and more efficiently to xp than vista! IMO Vista was a step backward, hopefully they make 2 steps forward with this one to get back where they should be!

 

[AydST]

I did have an inside tip a while back they were planning on releasing this in 2009........wonder if my XP will last that long as I sure don't want Vista.

 

[pctek]

I did have an inside tip a while back they were planning on releasing this in 2009........wonder if my XP will last that long as I sure don't want Vista.

Don't worry XP will be around for a while yet - Microsoft support for all flavours of XP doesn't end until April 2014 which gives them seven years to come up with another system worth formatting a drive for...

Edit: Makes you wonder if Vista really is a knee-jerk system rolled out of Redmond's back door half baked like Windows Millennium was?

 

[FarFarAway]

Nah Vista isn't in the league of Win ME, it's got some good stuff

This time though I hope they get us a decent new filesystem

 

[Rastalovich]

Nah Vista isn't in the league of Win ME, it's got some good stuff

This time though I hope they get us a decent new filesystem

Agreed, ME was just something they should have gone out of business and been openly sued over.

Vista has got some quirky niceities, but at too much of an expense for my liking.

Doesn`t it alarm any1 in the industry that an open forum, with technically knowledgable, and less knowledgable (but however offering other talents), members could come up with a better OS on paper - than a market leader can come up with with over 20 years of trying - including the staff, code and funds in order to do it.

 

[FarFarAway]

Well yes anyone could come up with a nice list of stuffs, but coding a whole OS to fit in with the monumentally HUGE amount of hardware it needs to support, across the HUGE userbase it needs to cater to...is another thing altogether