Successor to Vista named "Windows 7"
By Jonathan Schlaffer
While Microsoft is still trying to pawn Vista off on the masses, Vista’s successor has already been tentatively named. Previously known as “Vienna,” the next version of Windows is now called “Windows 7.”
The company announced the changes at a training conference in Florida last week. Few details regarding “Windows 7″ were released but Microsoft expects to release it within the next three years. This is part of its plan to create a more predictable schedule of released and updates, if only it could manage to do that with Vista.
Windows 7 will ship in pretty much the same versions as Vista is with both 64-bit or 32-bit OEM versions and the retail versions will come with both the 64-bit and 32-bit editions on the same DVD (if we are still using DVDs in three or so years).
It’s doubtful that “Windows 7″ will be called that when it releases, according to a statement from the company, “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…Software Assurance customers in particular.”
If vista dumped almost all backwards compatibility support, hopefully Windows 7 does away with all of it except for Vista compatible programs and devices. If you are wondering why most versions of Windows are somewhat unstable, just take a look at that four or five year old program or device that you absolutely have to use, replace it with a new one and chances are your problems will go away, kind of like magic, only without the waving of the wand.
Microsoft expects the overall quality of Windows 7 to be beyond that of Vista, one could only hope that it isn’t lying about that. How about naming it “Microsoft OS 7″ which wouldn’t be too far off, if only Apple wouldn’t sue over using something like that.
By the time Windows 7 rolls around, 64-bit only environments will be preferred, thus I can pretty much promise you nothing you have now, software or hardware will work with it anyway so for the 64-bit version of Windows 7, just plan on buying all new stuff, hardware and software alike.
I can only imagine what the tenth version of Windows will be called (if we get that far), Windows X, Windows System 10, Windows 10, Microsoft OSX (I think that’s already taken), oh well, back to the drawing board.
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July 22nd, 2007
Since when does 32 bit software not work on 64 bit software… sure not natively, but it will work. I’m using 64 bit Vista Ultimate and using two 64 bit apps, the rest are all 32 bit. The only “compatabliltiy” issues i’ve had are with some of my games. Checking “run in xp compatability” fixes the problems just fine. THere has not been a single program i can not get to work, with the exception of 32 bit DRIVERS. they obviously dont work on 64 bit machines- is this what you meant by software?
Windows seems to just pass over everyones heads because is so popular, but it you consider it, it’s pretty ingenious naming. Everything you run is in a window! OS 10 (or X, oooh) is just stupid and not creative in any way. Naming it tiger, african swallow or any of that bullsh!t is just stupid.
Furthure proving my point, since when has any operating system become emediately popular after it’s release? Most people wait for them to become stable, which requires mass scale testing, but then you dont get a state of the art operating system do you?
18673r Xp n0085
July 22nd, 2007
Since when does 32 bit software not work on 64 bit software… sure not natively, but it will work. I’m using 64 bit Vista Ultimate and using two 64 bit apps, the rest are all 32 bit. The only “compatabliltiy” issues i’ve had are with some of my games. Checking “run in xp compatability” fixes the problems just fine. THere has not been a single program i can not get to work, with the exception of 32 bit DRIVERS. they obviously dont work on 64 bit machines- is this what you meant by software?
Windows seems to just pass over everyones heads because is so popular, but it you consider it, it’s pretty ingenious naming. Everything you run is in a window! OS 10 (or X, oooh) is just stupid and not creative in any way. Naming it tiger, african swallow or any of that bullsh!t is just stupid.
Furthure proving my point, since when has any operating system become emediately popular after it’s release? Most people wait for them to become stable, which requires mass scale testing, but then you dont get a state of the art operating system do you?
18673r Xp n0085
July 24th, 2007
I meant to say drivers… yes…
So if Vista 7 64-bit is installed on a system none of the current drivers for old hardware will work. So new hardware, new system… and so on
Who cares if the software will run on it when almost NONE of the hardware will work? I don’t.
Of course, we won’t really know anything until Windows 7 actually comes out in RC or Beta form.
December 17th, 2007
How microsoft has not collapsed at this point, I can’t figure out.
Vista is completely a joke compared to mac which I will be certain to buy about the time “OS 7″(ha ha) comes around. From ie crashing and turning white to all the ridiculous glitches and freezes to none of my legacy hardware or software working. Now after the billions theyve made from this garbage, all the people holding it will have to buy a new OS instead of them making it usefull.
Fuck you Bill Gates.