Bill Gates Says Next Windows Coming Next Year or So
A strange quote from Bill Gates today as he claims the next version of Windows, code-named Windows 7, is going to be released “sometime in the next year or so.” That’s way ahead of the previous estimates, which claimed Windows 7 was not going to be released in 2009 at all, but somewhere in 2010 or 2011.
A Microsoft flack covered for Bill by saying that a 2009 “release” was in line with their development cycle, and that test versions are usually put out before the actual release—which is totally not what we think Bill meant when he said “release”. What you should take away from this whole mess is that a development release is coming in 2009 (or so), and Bill Gates probably shouldn’t be making statements without checking with his people. [Reuters]
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@bitfactory
It’s more or less built on Vista.
> Wow – they are pretending Vista never happened. Whoops.
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@most of the above commenteers
smart ass apple-hugging dicks. go make love to your smelly feline OSes.
@those who put dirt on ME
Windows ME brought stacks of new stuff to the Windows platform and it deserves some respect.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Me#New_and_updated_features
What a lot of people forget or don’t even recognize to begin with is that Windows Me is actually a rather innovative and forward-looking operating system. Instead, almost everyone focuses on its reliability problems which can be largely attributed to the flaky and inherently unstable Win9x kernel.