Windows 7 Coming Early? Not so Fast.
October 28th, 2008 by Avram Piltch
Will we be seeing Windows 7 ($76.54) released in 2009 as has been rumored in some corners? It doesn’t sound likely after what we’ve heard at PDC this week. At the “Inside Windows 7″ press demo on Sunday, Microsoft SVP of Windows and Windows Live Steven Sinofsky stressed that building a quality product takes precedence over setting and hitting a public release date.
During this morning’s PDC keynote, Sinofsky was a little bit more specific, saying that Windows 7 will go into public beta “early next year.” As for a final release date, Sinofsky said that he thinks three years from the release date of Windows Vista is the right time to debut a new OS. So it looks like Microsoft is going to take its time with the beta and target early 2010.
For those who can’t wait to get away from Vista, it sounds like the public beta will be truly available to anyone, not just a select group of testers. Based on our experience playing with the pre-beta Windows 7, we think the beta might actually be usable as an everyday OS.
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October 28th, 2008 at 2:18 pm
I will stick with XP for as long as I can, although if Win7 is as good as they are promising and doesn’t continuously access the hard drive then I may be interested
October 28th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
Ok Kelvin, follow me.
Open the drive properties of your hard drives and turn off indexing. Make sure you have 2GB of ram and add a 2-4GB flash drive for your page file.
Hey presto ! your Vista installation no longer continually accesses the hard drive, you could have googled that easily.
YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE IDIOTS HAVE WANT TO STICK WITH XP, XP is shit it has always been shit SP2 managed to make it standable but Vista is great I don’t have a problem and i run it on my office PC, my laptop, and my media center (my whole TV runs through Vista)
Grow up ! learn the new rules of the new OS and stop supporting obsolete software.
October 28th, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Using a flash drive for swap is not advisable. Flash memory has a limited number of writes and will soon degrade and cause errors if it is constantly written to by the OS as swap. I strongly advise not taking that foolish advice from someone who obviously knows nothing about computers. As far as OS goes I know many people who use XP instead of Vista for very good reason. I personally use neither, Ubuntu Linux leaves them both in the dust, and it’s free!
October 29th, 2008 at 11:22 pm
Using a USB Memory stick as a flash drive is a very very stupid move, as it will trash the drive in weeks. Most vendors fully support Vista now, so if you have a new PC, it’s generally a good idea to use Vista, you’ll get better support. With that being said, though, there are a lot of older programs that vendors no longer support, or the vendors are no longer in business that require XP, and Vista breaks them. How about this instead. Use what OS suits you, don’t try to push Vista or XP or Linux upon other people, they know what works for them, and don’t need you to.
October 30th, 2008 at 5:37 am
Ok Kelvin, follow me.
Open the drive properties of your hard drives and turn off indexing. Make sure you have 2GB of ram and add a 2-4GB flash drive for your page file.
Hey presto ! your Vista installation no longer continually accesses the hard drive, you could have googled that easily.
YOU ARE ONE OF THOSE IDIOTS HAVE WANT TO STICK WITH XP, XP is shit it has always been shit SP2 managed to make it standable but Vista is great I don’t have a problem and i run it on my office PC, my laptop, and my media center (my whole TV runs through Vista)
Grow up ! learn the new rules of the new OS and stop supporting obsolete software.
Vista is overrated. All flash, lotsa bugs underneath. Learn to live with the facts. Obsolete Software > Buggy New and Flashy and the “in-thing” software. YOU grow up.
And no, I won’t run it as a primary OS. Knowing Microsoft, I won’t be upgrading until they have released Windows 7 Service Pack 1.
October 31st, 2008 at 5:11 am
He means use a “ReadyBoost” capable 2-4GB USB drive for small read-writes. I have a 2 GB one in my Vista PC from day 1. Do a Google for “ReadyBoost” and find the MS link.
October 31st, 2008 at 7:33 am
Verdict on the early pre-beta M3 PDC build? Microsoft has finally got right even at this early stage. Even the comforting boot logo is back! Although Explorer still looks yuk compared to XP Explorer.
April 1st, 2009 at 11:57 pm
Wow guys, ease up on each other! Listen, here is the real deal with Vista and Windows 7. With Windows Vista, Microsoft did away with blue screen of death issues by forcing hardware makers to write “tighter” drivers that would support the new OS. The problem? Manufacturers really had no desire to support a new OS on their older hardware. Why? Because if it is easy to upgrade old hardware to new operating systems, people don’t buy new hardware. So, how do the hardware makers take the heat off of themselves? They claim that the system requirements and driver rewrites imposed by Microsoft doesn’t work with the old hardware. Hence, Microsoft’s fault. Don’t believe me, alright, let’s try a little proof. Install Ubuntu Linux on an old laptop with integrated Intel graphics and enable compiz effects. Guess what? Your old hardware does things that Intel says it isn’t capable of. The graphic requirements of Compiz far exceed the requirements of Vista or Windows 7. The specific Intel chipset I am calling out is the 82852/82855. I don’t blame Microsoft or Intel …. although if Intel charged 5 bucks for a Vista driver, maybe they would make friends and money????