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MIAMI (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp.Co-founder Bill Gates said on Friday he expected the new version of Windows operating software, code-named Windows 7, to be released "sometime in the next year or so."

The software giant has been aiming to issue more regular updates of the operating system software that powers the majority of the world's personal computers. Nevertheless, Gates' comments suggested that a successor to the Vista program might be released sooner than was generally expected.
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Source: Reuters

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OldBuzzard

This isn't outside the range of possibilities.

Server 2008 has a "hidden" Vista type interface

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BlueMak

Wouldn't this hurt sales of Vista?
I am in favour of new and better, but...I don't know.

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Hey I'm all about something new to play with, I just hope they learned from the Vista debacle and what consumers had to say about it over the past year! I'm sure windows 7 will be the next XP and Vista was just a test to see what they could get away with in regards to hardware and software support.

MitchRapp

they just need to get the hardware companies in line .... most vista problems are driver-related (hi nVidia...)

And some people just abuse (logitech continuing to sell non-vista compliant webcams MONTHS after the release of vista, and not even updating their drivers)


Hardware companies --- THUMBS DOWN
Vista x64 --- THUMBS UP

mike2h

wich means vista users r going to get hosed. i think this is almost a fk u to vista owners... if it actually happens.
i think it is more 'or so' than 'a year'.

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Judas

So windows 95 was a FU to windows 3.1? and windows 98 was a fu to windows 95? and windows 98se was a serious fu to windows 98? what about windows 2000 and me? Windows xp was a FU to 2000 and me? (less then a year after ME launched, windows XP showed up)....

imo i think everyone has gotten thier expectations all screwed up with the massive 5-6 year span of no windows products showing up.

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OldBuzzard

Not really, folks moving from XP would buy either it or Vista...either way MS gets a sale. Plus there would be folks that already have Vista getting it too.

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Judas

such as me.... dammit.. i just picked up this damn vista home premium and are waiting for the x64 dvd to arrive by mail

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kris23

looks like im just gonna keep rearming and reinstalling my trial windows till i get this....

lol.

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mike2h

judas r u high again?
vista is finally just coming into its own & ms is saying it will be oboslete in a year(not that i really believe the year part
vista is finally coming into its own\, hardware & software manafacturers r really getting on board with it & now ms is telling everybody to hold up cause this os is going to be old hat soon? what message do you think that sends to all the companies out there that are thinking about finally getting into vista & all the companies that make products for it? would u spend a bunch of money buying an os/developing software/hardware for an os that will be obsolete possibly in a year?
just by saying it he has slowed down a vista macine that was really just getting rolling.
people seem to forget that xp is as good as it is BECAUSE OF ITS LONGEVITY. if ms gets into another idiotic cycle of os releases every 3 years(or less) the consumers(thats us) will get screwed.
personally i think 18months to 2 years is more like likely for '7'. while i understand him wanting to keep shareholders happy with anouncements, i think this does more harm than good & prolly stems from him liking t ohear himself speak. jmo.
as usual judas u missed the point & the big picture.

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mike2h

while basically true, i think they will lose sales between know & then. if you were a company & had seen that vista was doing pretty good, would you got to the expense of setting vista up now with '7' supposedly so close? if i hadnt already got my copies of vista(havent even installed on my comp yet as i was waiting for a little more maturity for 64 driver support) i wouldnt be buyng it now. no real need with xp still doing just fine. & a new os coming.
that is ms problem rt now, they have a great os out there in xp, what looks to be a really good & maturing os in vista, want end users & companies to make the transtiton to vista, finally get a lot of its major probs fixed(sp1 driver/software support), & then tell us it will be replaced in a year(or so). not by an upgrade but by a totally different os. & we all know what that means.
if this was an upgrade to vista like se was to 98 or 2nd ed95 id say cool. but a completely new os needs 2-3 years just to come into its own, saw it with xp & seeing it vista. there r so many more factors now than there was bk in the old days that anything less than a 4-5 year cycle in new os screws everybody up.
not that it matters i guess, ms is going to d owhatever it wants

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BlueMak

I believe two things that have changed between mid 90's (or earlier if you wish) and now that make the OS every couple of years "obsolete" are 1)the much higher number of people owning a PC, 2)Internet or WWW if you prefer.

Only a small number of people upgrade their PCs every year or two. Don't go by what "you" see here or some other similar forums. People don't like change. Needing at least 5 years to have your (MS) OS expand enough before you release another OS is IMO the minimum amount of time needed.
Also since most hardware manufactures are getting more stupid by the decade and taking more and more time to release either a fully working new driver or hardware for the newer OS, you just have to give them time to catch up.
Also people (perhaps me too) seeing a new OS every couple of years, even if for whatever reason you don't need a new PC (which you probably will), it feels like paying taxes to the government.
Also, saying something similar to "if you are happy with XP stay with it" and at the same time either complain about people wanting XP or saying bad things about XP, is not very...productive.

From the little time I used Vista, I liked it and if I could afford it now, I would buy it, but, buying again an OS every couple of years or whenever I upgrade (read buy new) PC, feels just a waste of money, and I bet that most people feel the same.

I mean, just think, have a new OS (7) just when Vista has matured enough. Then spend another couple of years till you see either SP1 for that or support for it from hardware manufacturers, and have OS 8 around the corner.
I think only people that either sell computers or otherwise is their hobby, will want and can follow that.

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This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

PangingJr

and sometimes you have to separate what's productive for you (and what's not) by yourself.
everyone have different views on what's productive and what's not, and since nobody really knows (or even cares) what you think.
what's productive left to think about, this should come after whatever you put in your mind.

Al_Vampyre

Seems unlikely to me, the hardware/software developers will not be too happy as they have just had to rewrite a bunch of code for one new OS and then they announce another one. Unless its using the same kernel as Vista of course

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PangingJr

i also use the OS for desktop sometimes. Vista theme with the installing of Desktop Experience features.
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