Microsoft Previews Windows 7

Subject: Microsoft Previews Windows 7 May 28th 2008, 6:34 pm

On Tuesday, Microsoft said is next operating system, Windows 7 will be made for touch screen applications. This will be an alternative to using a mouse.

CEO Steve Ballmer demonstrated the iPhone like touch screen feature at yesterday's "D: All things digital" conference. He said it was a very small snippet of the new operating system which is expected to be released in 2009.

An employee from Microsoft demonstrated the interface by moving, enlarging and shrinking photos as well as moving through maps of Sea World in San Diego, CA.

Touch screen or tablet options has almost always been available with Windows and no one has really seemed to care. And the OS so far looks just as if it was a service pack for vista, it still looks the same. Some speculate that there might be less improvements with Windows 7 than SP2 added to XP. Hopefully microsoft will roll out some new useful features instead of making this a vista upgrade, there is still about one and a half years to find out.

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Regular Visitor From : Seattle, WA OS : Windows Vista

Pretty sweet I suppose

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

i like the touchscreen, other then that, nope. mac needs 2 make an official touch screen comp, they already got the tech in the phone so not hard

Regular Visitor OS : XP

sexy

Member From : NC, USA OS : OS X Leopard 10.5.4

Lbroskee wrote:: i like the touchscreen, other then that, nope. mac needs 2 make an official touch screen comp, they already got the tech in the phone so not hard

WWDC is right around the corner smile

Veteran Member From : Florida OS : Mac OS X Leopard

ya i no. they better have some good suprises. if iPhone 2.0 is all they got imma b mad. Appl is slipping 10.5.3 is the 1st update i've got lik lik 3 months

Kid Sister From : NYC OS : Mac OS X

i'm not much of a fan of touch screen :undecided:

Subject: Re: Microsoft Previews Windows 7 May 28th 2008, 10:21 pm

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Member From : NC, USA OS : OS X Leopard 10.5.4

Lbroskee wrote:: ya i no. they better have some good suprises. if iPhone 2.0 is all they got imma b mad. Appl is slipping 10.5.3 is the 1st update i've got lik lik 3 months

I wouldn't say they've been slipping @ all. While 10.5.3 is a nice update to have, it hasn't really fixed anything for me. Leopard worked just fine before the update.

Besides the 3G iPhone @ WWDC, you can also expect to get an update or release of the App Store for both the iPhone 1st gen and 3G, and the iPod touch. On top of that, I think that the Apple Cinema Display line is due for an update, and rumor has it that Jobsy will be announcing a touch based tablet Mac smile

Remember that side loading iMac style dock anyone? (patent pics) cool

Resident Artist From : Devon, England OS : Vista

2009? Surely it won't be a huge update over Vista then :/

Subject: Re: Microsoft Previews Windows 7 May 29th 2008, 11:19 am

randomus_r wrote:: 2009? Surely it won't be a huge update over Vista then :/

Yeah, i mean they seriously didnt have enough time to do anything (vista came out like 5 years after xp in 2002)

Regular Visitor From : elysium OS : windows xp modded

2010. for Blackcomb (codename win7)

Subject: Re: Microsoft Previews Windows 7 May 29th 2008, 6:00 pm

illidan wrote:: 2010. for Blackcomb (codename win7)

no one knows for sure. Microsoft has been hinting at 2009 but others say 2010

Regular Visitor From : Serbia OS : Lame XP SP3

yay cool news btw. here are more screenies and news happy

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/27/live-from-d-gates-and-ballmer-debut-windows-7/

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Looks cool. Is that going to be the same software on the "table computers" we've seen from microsoft latley?

Resident Artist From : Devon, England OS : Vista

Yeah, she said in the video it would be similar

Regular Visitor OS : Vista and OSx

ehh touch screen comps seem just plain annoying i mean cool i guess but very un practicall

Subject: Re: Microsoft Previews Windows 7 June 6th 2008, 11:19 pm

only difference is multi touch which adds a new dimension of interactivity. Now im not happy that MICROSOFT is doing this but i expect that they are just implementing the same technology that u see in those tables at the T-Mobile stores with the huge touch screens on the coffee table with blue tooth ect ect. that would excelently but its not too productive. if they can find a way to minimize human error as far as slight hand trembles ect then i think it might be fine software. of course, because its microsoft it will crash often, come with the bugs preinstalled along with their parent bloatware. The good news is that Microsoft is rebuilding the windows kernel from the ground up for the next release of windows. wether this is a REALEASE or an upgrade, still eludes me...

Subject: Re: Microsoft Previews Windows 7 June 6th 2008, 11:30 pm

@alxmarcond, they are simply improving the kernel for this next version. They are NOT gonna making a new smaller one as previously suggested sad

Subject: Re: Microsoft Previews Windows 7 June 6th 2008, 11:53 pm

i never said anything about a smaller one. the samller one was WinMin (A bare bone command prompt version of Vista) which was said at a conference that it was NOT going to be released and later Microsoft revoked that statement and stated that they would release it but then decided not to. Microsoft also stated that they would be building the windows kernel from the ground up because of the accumulated bugs (human and machine errors) and that it would resemble the Unix kernel in many fashions but would completely avoid using any of the code from the Unix kernel. This also means that Windows 7 will be much faster, less buggy (about as buggy as DOS) but it also begs the question if this new kernel will end up going down the same path as XENIX. I for one am hoping that Microsoft will please me on this one.

I'm New From : Melbourne OS : XP / OSX

Although Apple did it first with pretty much everything Microsoft does (unimaginative w****rs), it's good that they're at least bringing these functions to the majority of users so everyone finally gets the modern computing touch.

Regular Visitor From : Sydney OS :  Leopard 10.5.6

Yeah, touch-screen-ing is becoming more common everywhere s'all good. smile

Lol, but I also questioned, for a desktop pc,

' Why move your hand around 22" when its easier with a mouse to move 4"? ' tongue

Subject: Re: Microsoft Previews Windows 7 September 13th 2008, 9:42 am

You guys remeber minwin? That was the start of a kernel rewrite which is what windows 7 will be so hopefully with windows seven windows might lose some of it's famed
Bloateness. Before ms would just keep addng on top of the existing kernel which many that a buch of uspess code 95 was present in vista. Same goes for the registry, and apperantl becuase of the seal thatMS made with the OpenSUSE development they might be taking a few pointers from the Linux kernel which would mean a drastic speed up in all of windows which is good, bit I still won't use windows tongue

Senior Member From : England OS : XP/Ubuntu

Ironic that they might be using pointers from the linux kernel when not so long ago they were suing them for stealing ms's ideas confused

Oh well as long as it's faster i'll be happy

Subject: Re: Microsoft Previews Windows 7 September 13th 2008, 1:13 pm

As long as it looks good as well. If they make some crappy looking OS, or a copy of vista i'll have to think before upgrading