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| Quote: | Next Windows version just three years away
Microsoft keeping customers in loop
Last updated July 20, 2007 8:55 p.m. PT
By TODD BISHOP
P-I REPORTER
Microsoft Corp. on Friday confirmed an approximate timeline for the next Windows release, seeking to smooth things over with corporate customers stung by its past product delays.
The next version of the flagship PC operating system -- known for now by the internal code name "Windows 7" -- will be released in about three years, according to a series of presentation slides from Microsoft's global sales meeting this week.
If Microsoft can stick to the schedule, it would put the next Windows version on the market sometime in 2010. The current version, Windows Vista, experienced repeated delays before its January release, which was more than five years after its predecessor, Windows XP, came out.
The shorter timeline isn't a surprise. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has vowed that the company will never again take so long to develop a new Windows version as it did to produce Windows Vista. Microsoft has reorganized the Windows division in an attempt to avoid delays.
The slides, obtained by the Seattle P-I, don't detail any of the specific features planned for the next Windows version. However, one slide notes that "Windows 7" will be a "full OS release."
That appears to debunk past theories that Microsoft would aim for something less than a full overhaul in the next version of the operating system.
"They do seem to be clarifying," the situation, said Michael Cherry, an analyst at independent research firm Directions on Microsoft. "We're starting to get at least some information."
The disclosure of the timeline comes two weeks after a Forrester Research report cited past product delays and "the lack of a detailed product road map" as two reasons some companies are wary of renewing their Microsoft Software Assurance contracts.
The service contracts, generally three years long, include rights to upgrade to new versions of Microsoft programs when they come out. But the past delays meant, in some cases, that new versions weren't available within the term of a contract.
In a statement Friday, Microsoft confirmed that it gave the information to its sales representatives so that they could give customers a clearer picture of the new Windows timeline.
The statement said the effort was part of "ongoing outreach to enterprise customers and partners ... including Software Assurance customers in particular." It confirmed that the company "is scoping Windows '7' development to a three-year timeframe."
However, the statement continued, "the specific release date will ultimately be determined by meeting the quality bar."
Although the product will be known by the "Windows 7" code name for now, Microsoft generally gives Windows versions different names before public release. Windows Vista was known by the internal name "Longhorn" during its development. |
cf. http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/324570_msftwindows21.html
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chiv
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| Posted: Sat, 21st Jul 2007 08:46 Post subject: |
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ok so either microsoft wont meet that deadline (vista was delayed way way longer than planned wasnt it?), or it'll be a bug filled mess, OR, it'll just be vista with a face-lift, that probably runs worse than vista does (ie it'll be windows ME all over again  )
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sat, 21st Jul 2007 14:43 Post subject: |
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 I'm not getting Windows Seven/Vienna/Whatever until SP1 comes out, and removes all the nonexistent bugs. |
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| Posted: Sat, 21st Jul 2007 15:17 Post subject: |
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the history likes to repeats it self
VISTA , VISTA NT , VISTA ME , VISTA XP
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| Posted: Sat, 21st Jul 2007 15:48 Post subject: |
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| hafriski wrote: | VISTA , VISTA NT , VISTA ME , VISTA XP
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Vista 1.0
Vista 3.1
Vista 95 (2009?)
Vista 98 (2011?  )
Vista BlowMe
Vista NT
Vista XP
If Windows 7 comes out in 3 years, I am skipping Vista alltogether |
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chiv
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| Posted: Sat, 21st Jul 2007 16:17 Post subject: |
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why? in about 3 years, vista might be good by then
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| Posted: Sat, 21st Jul 2007 17:05 Post subject: |
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| Parallax_ wrote: | | hafriski wrote: | VISTA , VISTA NT , VISTA ME , VISTA XP
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Vista 1.0
Vista 3.1
Vista 95 (2009?)
Vista 98 (2011? )
Vista BlowMe
Vista NT
Vista XP
If Windows 7 comes out in 3 years, I am skipping Vista alltogether |
And you probably won't be alone in doing that 
There are only 10 kinds of people : those that understand binaries and those that don't.
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| Posted: Sat, 21st Jul 2007 19:56 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sat, 21st Jul 2007 22:54 Post subject: |
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3 years is normal..
vista's and xp span was the biggest in m$ history..
yes
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$en$i
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| Posted: Sat, 21st Jul 2007 23:12 Post subject: |
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| cnZ wrote: | 3 years is normal..
vista's and xp span was the biggest in m$ history.. |
Yeah, the info here is that it will be a "full OS release".
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sat, 21st Jul 2007 23:24 Post subject: |
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And Longhorn was supposed to come in 2004.
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| Posted: Sun, 22nd Jul 2007 00:02 Post subject: |
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| LeoNatan wrote: | | And Longhorn was supposed to come in 2004. |
Longhorn was the codename for Vista I thought |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sun, 22nd Jul 2007 00:06 Post subject: |
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Long before that, when announced in 2002, it was supposed to be released in 2004.
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| Posted: Sun, 22nd Jul 2007 01:52 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Sun, 22nd Jul 2007 05:03 Post subject: |
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Installing Ubuntu in 3 days. I doubt I'll be able to install a new version of windows in 3 years.
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Last edited by Nalo on Wed, 3rd Jul 2024 07:03; edited 2 times in total
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Aug 2010 13:26 Post subject: |
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Th-th-th-threaaaaaaad necrooooooo!!!!!
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Aug 2010 13:56 Post subject: |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Aug 2010 14:05 Post subject: |
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Well, one could always make the argument that 7 is a "service pack" of Vista anyway, just like XP was for 2000. 
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Aug 2010 14:14 Post subject: |
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Nice comeback Leo ...and totally true!
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Aug 2010 14:14 Post subject: |
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LeoNatan
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Aug 2010 14:23 Post subject: |
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Well, I put this comment in a time when I had some dumb problems with the original Vista, some processes would get stuck and I wouldn't even be able to kill them. That problem was fixed in SP1.
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| Posted: Sat, 7th Aug 2010 16:22 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Mon, 9th Aug 2010 01:20 Post subject: |
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It seems a bunch of you could bite your tongue today-
Windows 7 is the first operating system I haven't had to re-install every 3 months. The first I can say that ever when it comes to Microsoft. Corporate businesses still aren't biting, majority still use XP spite the economy. Sad really XP is so out dated and no it is not more stable than 7 at all. 7 is better in every way possible.
I skipped Vista completely and 7 has made me happy so far.
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