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Microsoft Won't Commit to '09 Launch for Windows 7
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| Microsoft is not too keen on rolling out an underdone Windows 7 and will only
| proceed with its launch when it is sure that the OS is ready. This is the
| reason it is not committing to a 2009 launch date. Microsoft’s Bill Veghte
| told Cnet that the OS will be shipped when the quality is up to scratch.
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http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/microsoft_wont_commit_09_launch_wndows_7
Recent:
Microsoft's Windows 7 Vista replacement plan
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| No, if Microsoft really wants to make its customers happy, they should do
| what my friend Jason Perlow suggests, "since Windows 7 is essentially a
| performance and usability fix for a defective product, I'm of the increasing
| opinion that a Windows 7 upgrade should be free to anyone who was conned into
| buying Windows Vista."
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| You know, he has a good point. While I personally think you'd be a lot better
| off with buying a new Mac or moving over to Fedora, openSUSE or Ubuntu, if
| you still want to stick with Windows even after suffering with Vista,
| Microsoft should give you a copy of Windows 7 for free. After all, haven't
| you suffered enough?
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http://blogs.computerworld.com/Microsofts_Windows_7_Vista_replacement_plan
The sound of empire falling
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| There’s another problem. Vista is so dead that Microsoft is already touting
| its successor “System 7". Not end-of-lifing XP on schedule means they’ll
| actually have to support three different operating systems for at least the
| years until System 7 ships, and some time afterward. Even Microsoft is going
| to feel the strain, and ISVs are likely to play safe by writing to the
| minimum (XP) specification.
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http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=647
Deja Vista?
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| Yet when InfoWorld gave Windows 7 a through benchmarking and shakedown, the
| result was the same ill foreboding that accompanied pre-release Vista (and
| proved all too accurate).
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http://www.microsplot.com/blog/2008/11/deja_vista
Windows 7 doomed by economic outlook
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| Microsoft CEO, the shy and retiring, softly spoken Steve Ballmer admitted
| that this was happening and seems to be slowly walking away from Vista.
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| [...]
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| It could be that this will be the moment for Linux to make its long awaited
| rise to fame. If firms want to cut costs but upgrade hardware then Linux
| ideas are probably the only way to go forward. Indeed some companies will be
| able to keep their older hardware for a bit longer.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/20/windows-doomed-economic-outlook
Windows 7’s biggest threat: journalists
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| ZDNET.MICROSOFT.COM, Blogosphere.NET, Wednesday (NNGadget) — As Microsoft
| continues to prepare for the 2009 2010 launch of Windows 7, it today issued a
| plea through its network of objective opinion-shapers: Don’t let the
| journalists near it.
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| Microsoft MSDN software disk scarecrow in cornfield“We understand that many
| journalists use Macs,” said CNet marketing marketer Don Reisinger. “This
| means they necessarily suckle at the Satanic rear passage of Steve Jobs. We
| cannot countenance their bias. Journalists are responsible for all those
| signs outside computer shops offering to replace Vista with XP. When was the
| last time you saw the entire technology field stop and wait for an
| announcement from any other company besides Apple? It’s so unfair!”
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http://notnews.today.com/2008/11/12/windows-7s-biggest-threat-journalists/
Windows 7 Unmasked
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| But after the stage props came down, and after the projectors finally went
| cold, attendees were left with a pre-beta copy of something that looked less
| like a new OS than the repackaging of an old one. At least that was my
| impression after I started exploring the Windows 7 M3 (Milestone 3) bits that
| came on my shiny new 160GB Western Digital USB hard disk (one of the better
| tchotchkes I've received at a conference). As I reported on my Enterprise
| Desktop blog, the more I dug into Windows 7, the more I saw an OS that looked
| and felt like a slightly tweaked version of Windows Vista.
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| [...]
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| Just what was so new about Microsoft's next Windows, apart from a rejuggled
| UI? Windows 7 appeared to suck memory like Vista, to consume CPU like Vista,
| and to have the same consumer focus. How would this product be received by
| enterprise customers, the vast majority of whom had soundly rejected its
| predecessor? After all, if Vista wasn't good enough for big business, then
| surely a Vista-derived encore would meet with a similarly chilly reception.
|
| [...]
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| Otherwise, Windows 7 operates much like Vista. There are subtle visual tweaks
| here and there, but nothing on the level of the dramatic XP-to-Vista
| transition. Ironically, Vista users may be more annoyed by the UI changes
| than users coming from XP. Because the Windows 7 and Vista Aero experiences
| are so similar, seasoned users of Vista will be more likely to look in the
| wrong places for common functions. By contrast, XP users won't be burdened
| with now-outdated Aero navigation skills.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/153624/windows_7_preview.html?tk=rss_news
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