Posted by axxxr
With Vista just out the door,Microsoft is now drawing up plans to deliver its follow-up operating system by the end of 2009, according to the executive in charge of building the product's core components.
That would be a much faster turn-around than Vista, which shipped more than five years after Windows XP, but Vista was exceptional, said Ben Fathi, corporate vice president of development with Microsoft's Windows Core Operating System Division this week at the RSA Conference in San Francisco.
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Posted by Toney_Ericsson
Who knows how long, that's a bit of a bold statement (2 years).
The next Microsoft OS will be 64bit only I hear.
Posted by shyam335
64bit existed since xp,but its much more mainstream with vista..
They tried too hard to include a lot of new features in originally planned vista (longhorn earlier),they started with a huge list,got through halfway,then they realized its not viable for all the things to be on vista,they restarted it again and thats the vista that we see now..
Posted by Johnex
Yeah, so vienna should include the features they left out.
Posted by arien617
Better make the most out of Vista now then.
Posted by fatreg
makes sense to me..
98-2000-XP (2002)
why not 2007-2009?
fatreg
Posted by djtwistter
dude i thinkvista was a compel waste of time as htey copy mac os 10 now i want to see bill gates and ask him to show his real stuff
Posted by fatreg
it is a copy of osx but as they say:
:if you cant beat em, join em"
so i can only assume that billy couldn't beat mac osx so had to copy it....
i love my mac.. would never ever go back to windoze..
and yes ive used vista.
but yeah i think MS need to stand up and create something new.
fatreg
Posted by arien617
I was watchin something on TV last week where they were saying Vista could be last OS Microsoft are going to have a launch event for. They were saying future versions of Windows could just be received over the internet without buying an actual disc.
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OS's have been copying each other for years, not like thats going to ever stop.
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doesn't that happen anyway?
Posted by govigov
I agree with you on that one, Ph4z3r!
Posted by brix25
I thought of getting Vista for about one second them I just stopped and decided to stick with the old and trusted XP.
Posted by Toney_Ericsson
Vista is a reason not to get a mac
How many gamers use mac's, wonder how Battlefield 2142 would run on a windows mac.
Posted by fatreg
but i wonder how well itunes runs on a pc!
its well known that macs are for music and vids.
we dont play games, we have PS3 for that.....
fatreg
Posted by Gigs
iTunes runs fine, if it didn't, you'd only have the producer to thank, not the operating system
Posted by Toney_Ericsson
Bah, I use itunes on my PC without problems with my ipod. I used to have the latest consoles but why bother what with Dual Quad Core processors out, higher spec graphics etc and everything is on one machine.
Give me a bit of Battlefield 2142 on a PC any day
http://largedownloads.ea.com/[....]/BF2142_Northern_Strike_Hi.mov
Posted by Xugaa
It's funny though, since I know that Microsoft more or less copied Apple with Vista, but I'd still buy Vista over Mac, no matter what computer I had.
Posted by Toney_Ericsson
That's what Billy boy Gates has done, Microsoft can see consumers like the "visual" aspects of mac's and it's no lie more people started buying mac's so now Microsoft have brought out a more visually pleasing OS, copying OSX on many aspects.