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Microsoft’s Next OS To Be Called “Windows 7″. Seriously

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Re: Microsoft’s Next OS To Be Called “Windows 7″. Seriously

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Post by bigthboy »

Personally, I think Vista should have kept the name "Longhorn" from development. I like the sound of "Windows 7" but I too am a bit concerned with how Windows in itself will fare with a future that looks like Vista which was, in my opinion, a step away from the enterprise class that Windows has always had a firm grasp on. As someone who works in IT for a university and has worked for other schools in the past, I found Vista showed no reasons to be used in an enterprise setting. Vista tailored WAY too much to a home user perspective. All pretty pictures and no power.

Windows 7, we can perhaps expect a step back in the right direction. I've seen rumors but nothing official that suggested Windows 7 was going to be Microsoft's first Operating system since Windows 2000 to not use the NT core? Anyone care to confirm that?

Also... just some funnies... http://venturebeat.com/2008/10/13/windows-7-the-search-for-a...

Re: Microsoft’s Next OS To Be Called “Windows 7″. Seriously

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Post by snprbob86 »

RKlophaus wrote: post #8

I'm not the first one to say this, but I'm worried about Windows as a platform. The code base has now been recycled 5 times over, and they keep adding layers to it instead of cleaning it up. (One thing I admire about Apple. When the OS code got old and crufty, they weren't afraid to start at the beginning and do it right.) Windows has had to promise and deliver complete backward compatibility to retain their market s…

Windows 7 is breaking application binary compatibility. My understanding is that if your executable's manifest does not specify 7, then you get I may have misunderstood, but this seems like it will relieve many compatibility woes.

Re: Microsoft’s Next OS To Be Called “Windows 7″. Seriously

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Post by Zev »

RKlophaus wrote: post #8

I'm not the first one to say this, but I'm worried about Windows as a platform. The code base has now been recycled 5 times over, and they keep adding layers to it instead of cleaning it up. (One thing I admire about Apple. When the OS code got old and crufty, they weren't afraid to start at the beginning and do it right.) Windows has had to promise and deliver complete backward compatibility to retain their market s…

Apple's start-from-the-beginning effort was Copland. That turned out pretty badly for Apple. (Which is part of the reason they abandoned it in favor of buying NeXTSTEP (Which turned into OS X))

Re: Microsoft’s Next OS To Be Called “Windows 7″. Seriously

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Post by helveticaman »

Zev wrote: post #14
RKlophaus wrote: post #8

I'm not the first one to say this, but I'm worried about Windows as a platform. The code base has now been recycled 5 times over, and they keep adding layers to it instead of cleaning it up. (One thing I admire about Apple. When the OS code got old and crufty, they weren't afraid to start at the beginning and do it right.) Windows has had to promise and deliver complete backward compatibility to retain their market s…

Apple's start-from-the-beginning effort was Copland. That turned out pretty badly for Apple. (Which is part of the reason they abandoned it in favor of buying NeXTSTEP (Which turned into OS X))

But in a way, Copland wasn't Steve Jobs, but NeX was. Apple is Steve Jobs.

Re: Microsoft’s Next OS To Be Called “Windows 7″. Seriously

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Post by breck »

jrockway wrote: post #7

it’s probably going to confuse everyone and couldn’t be more bland Probably not. It is a little bland, but there is nothing all that exciting about an OS like Windows. Its most exciting function is drawing window decorations and showing icons on your desktop. Who cares?

Agreed. I think it couldn't be less confusing. I love the name and look forward to it coming out(still on XP, definitely going to skip Vista). I hope it has built in version control, faster file search, and no stupid security pop ups. Also, could we please get a better version of Paintbrush?

Re: Microsoft’s Next OS To Be Called “Windows 7″. Seriously

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Post by trezor »

Next up we hit Windows XP, which has served most of us reasonably well since 2001. It sounds sort of cool, it’s catchy, and we have no idea what it means.

I thought it was commonplace knowledge within the geek community that XP was short for "eXPerience"?

If he is going to go on a long rant commenting on the name of different Windows-releases, he should at least know the topic he is talking about ;)

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