Windows 7 still slated for 2010 says Microsoft, Bill Gates just crazy-talking

[DigitalDude]

Windows 7 still slated for 2010 says Microsoft, Bill Gates just crazy-talking

If your pants / panties were in a "bunch" upon hearing news that Windows 7 would be headed into your ever-loving arms "next year," you might just want to hold off on those party invites for a little bit. Sure, Bill Gates just happened to mention that we'd see a new version of the OS "Sometime in the next year or so," but it's looking like that "or so" makes a world of difference. Microsoft wants to chill everyone out with the somber news that its got no plans to introduce Windows 7 any earlier than January 2010 (three years from the launch of Vista), and reassure us that crazy old Gates may have just been talkin' developer speak. "As is standard with the release of a new product, we will be releasing early builds of Windows 7 prior to its general availability as a means to gain tester feedback," a spokesman for Microsoft said, downplaying Gates' statement. Of course, this means that XP's cutoff will suddenly move even further down the line, which makes us wonder what the point of setting that June 2010 date was in the first place. Why are you toying with us like this, Microsoft?

Source: Engadget

not a very surprising reply from MS.. expected one

so its official Vista is not another ME

thread with the earlier release news: Windows 7 to arrive next year, says Bill Gates


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[aryayush]

LOL! Poor Bill Gates. Did he lose Ballmer's number?

[gxsaurav]

That doesn't mean Beta won't come out in 2009

[drgrudge]

Originally Posted by gx_saurav

That doesn't mean Beta won't come out in 2009

Lol the final version (and SP1) of Vista is a half baked - half assed OS. God help PC users with Windwoes 7 beta.

[gxsaurav]

Don't start a flame war by making me write about Mac OS X Leopard's updates

[kumarmohit]

Seems like the top echelon of the company is having troubles. Well we can not exactly blame Gates either, he is not involved in day to day working of the company any more!

[ray|raven]

@kumarmohit
The Dude doesnt know abt his own company? How pathetic can he get?
Yeah, he aint involved in day-to-day work , but doesnt he even get updates on whats goin on in his billion dollar company?

[iMav]

y are u guys talking like india tv and aaj tak

gates said:

tes just happened to mention that we'd see a new version of the OS "Sometime in the next year or so," now alll u guys are tech enthusiasts who know that there are betas that come out in the market almost a year before the actual product the author of the engadget post is a douche bag

[DigitalDude]

Originally Posted by iMav

y are u guys talking like india tv and aaj tak

gates said:

tes just happened to mention that we'd see a new version of the OS "Sometime in the next year or so," now alll u guys are tech enthusiasts who know that there are betas that come out in the market almost a year before the actual product the author of the engadget post is a douche bag

iMav please dont insult the author (Nilay Patel) he is my favourite

and you have to admit that was a loose statement from Billy


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[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by iMav

y are u guys talking like india tv and aaj tak

gates said:

tes just happened to mention that we'd see a new version of the OS "Sometime in the next year or so," now alll u guys are tech enthusiasts who know that there are betas that come out in the market almost a year before the actual product the author of the engadget post is a douche bag

Originally Posted by DigitalDude

iMav please dont insult the author (Nilay Patel) he is my favourite

and you have to admit that was a loose statement from Billy


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iMav is right.
and that author sucks. He is a brainless moron.
wtf, he is insulting most of us geeks by the statements he wrote.
[quote]and reassure us that crazy old Gates may have just been talkin' developer speak.[/qoute]
many of us here care more for developer speak than non tech newspapers and websites.
Take ubuntu for example.
many of us switch to a new version the moment certain bugs are fixed and just update it till it reaches release.

I would be more intrested in finding out the current kernel state of Windows 7 and its new builds of explorer.exe, cmd.exe, etc than find out when the ordinary janatha will get to use windows.

[CadCrazy]

Originally Posted by drgrudge

Lol the final version (and SP1) of Vista is a half baked - half assed OS. God help PC users with Windwoes 7 beta.

But Mac users are the most docile, soft spoken & shy members in the forum who almost never post outside threads which doesn't has to do with a Mac.

http://www.thinkdigit.com/forum/show...1&postcount=46

[DigitalDude]

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

iMav is right.
and that author sucks. He is a brainless moron.
wtf, he is insulting most of us geeks by the statements he wrote.

many of us here care more for developer speak than non tech newspapers and websites.
Take ubuntu for example.
many of us switch to a new version the moment certain bugs are fixed and just update it till it reaches release.

you guys are very arrogant...

Nilay is a fine author...

do you speak developer's lingo in an Investor's meet ? that was sure some out of the way statement by billy to please the investors and increase the stock price of MS to give more meat to its Yahoo bid but it backfired in the tech world... and now MS is patching up

Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

many of us here care more for developer speak than non tech newspapers and websites.
Take ubuntu for example.
many of us switch to a new version the moment certain bugs are fixed and just update it till it reaches release.
I would be more intrested in finding out the current kernel state of Windows 7 and its new builds of explorer.exe, cmd.exe, etc than find out when the ordinary janatha will get to use windows.

then you will be at home in MSDN or other developer forums... why waste your time in general tech blogs ? and complain if they dont write what/how you want ?


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[MetalheadGautham]

@Crazy: don't pull his leg

do you speak developer's lingo in an Investor's meet ? that was sure some out of the way statement by billy to please the investors and it backfired in the tech world... and now MS is patching up

If you invest in something, you are expected to know its functioning.

[iMav]

@digital dude: there is a difference between seeing something and releasing something and ur so fine author who in my view is a dumb fcuk mixed the 2 made up a post to increase his digg count

dude the author of the post is a russian i guess - joshua topolsky and not nitin whatever

[DigitalDude]

Originally Posted by iMav

mixed the 2 made up a post to increase his digg count

ok this is a possibility

engadget does write some sensational stories to increase hits from time to time

but please dont call him names plzz


edit:

Originally Posted by iMav

dude the author of the post is a russian i guess - joshua topolsky and not nitin whatever

the author of the first post is nilay and yeah the second post is joshua... I dont like joshua topolsky and darren brown ok so they are to blame phew!


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[MetalheadGautham]

Originally Posted by iMav

and ur so fine author who in my view is a dumb fcuk mixed the 2 made up a post to increase his digg count

nice idea !
must try out myself one day...
false news to become popular

[anandk]

I had put on my site 2-3 days back itself, that its the media companies who have put 2 and 2 together to make 5. Let me quote my site:

Statement 1: In response to a question about Windows Vista, Gates, speaking before the Inter-American Development Bank here, said: "Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version."

The question was about Windows Vista. A new version of which OS was he referring to, then ? Its not clear. If at all he was talking about Windows 7, at most an early test geared toward developers is conceivable ! And how do you interpret 'or so' ?

Statement 2: Referring to Windows 7, the code name for the next full release of Windows client software, Gates said: "I'm super-enthused about what it will do in lots of ways."

Now this statement clearly talks about his enthusiasm for Windows 7. And its understandable. A company will HAVE to be enthusiastic about any new product that it plans to offer.

These two statements, on the basis of which the net is abuzz with conclusions, interpretations & conjecture, appear to have been clubbed and quoted out of context of each other.

Incidentally this TODAYS development may also interest some:

Is the new version of Windows, Bills Gates referred to, an extension of Vista? Ullrich Loeffler, program manager A/NZ for analyst firm IDC said that Windows 7 is likely to be an update of the Vista code framework.

“It’s unlikely Microsoft will be building something from the ground up,” he said. “That’s why it is very probable the new version is an extension of Vista. I don’t think it would make sense three years later to develop a new operating system with a different code base.”