Gates says: Windows 7 could be ready 'in the next year'

[microchip8]

In a very surprising statement, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates said that Windows 7, the successor of Windows Vista, could come within the next year. That's way ahead of schedule as it was previously hinted that the next major revision of the operating system would arrive sometime in 2010, or roughly three years after Vista.

http://www.techspot.com/news/29618-gates-windows-7-could-be-ready-in-the-next-year.html

[Arky]

I don't suppose this would have anything to do with the way Vista has BOMBED, despite attempts by many computer suppliers to foist it upon an unsuspecting public...?

I still determinedly do most of my computing in Win2k, since I don't like XP one iota - I shudder to think how bad Vista is, and Windows 7 - well, only time will tell... One thing I am willing to put money on, though, is that it will undoubtedly handcuff users with layers and layers and layers of DRM, if Gates can possibly get away with it.

Everything since Win2k seems to take ever-increasingly more control of the operating environment away from the user, and add more resource-hungry bloatware in the process. If that makes me sound like an old fart, then so be it, but with Win2k, imperfect though it may be, it doesn't continually try to automatically do things behind my back, or 'mask' stuff from me, or place it behind a patronisingly dumbed-down user interface :)


Arky.

[Arky]

www.theregister.co.uk/2008/06/11/windows_vista_charles_dibona/