http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/ Engadget Comments for Vista's successor now known as "7," due out within three years http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2008 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 20th 2007 8:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 21st 2007 3:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 25th 2007 3:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 20th 2007 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/
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..i mean look at longhorn.. X|]]>Jul 20th 2007 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 20th 2007 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/
1998- Win98
1999- Win98SE
2000- Win2000, WinME
2001- WinXP]]>Jul 21st 2007 6:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/
Mac OS X is a breeze to install (provided your hardware works out of the box for the most part) and Ubuntu is the same (see Mac OS X).

Now with the Beryl project, there is eye candy for Linux and Mac OS X has already had it for years.

Windows better do something drastic (again) to really make this OS something that stands out.

-cue resume Windows bashing-
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Microsoft bashers eat a dick. The Zune is nice only problem is the ipod has a big enough fan base it doesnt matter. Also the iPhone blows and windows mobile is amazing. But dont get me wrong i LOVE apple computers]]>Jul 20th 2007 9:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/
Now so far as the Zune, it's got a cool feature, i.e. wireless sharing. Though really, I prefer the iPods interface to the Zune. But that's just personal preference.]]>Jul 25th 2007 12:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 20th 2007 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 21st 2007 11:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/
At work we have XP boxen and don't plan on upgrading to Vista for the next two years, at the very least. I told all my friends that it would happen like this, but they just didn't believe me. Guess I was right :)]]>Jul 21st 2007 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/
And just one little piece of information: OS X is NOT open-source.]]>Jul 20th 2007 9:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 20th 2007 9:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/
1. Windows 3.1
2. Windows 95
3. Windows 98
4. Windows ME (say what you will, it was marketed as such)
5. Windows XP
6. Windows Vista
7. "Seven"

Oh, snap.]]>Jul 22nd 2007 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/
1. Windows 1.0
2. Windows 3.0
(skipping here 2.0)
]]>Jul 23rd 2007 3:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/4 - Win 95/98/SE/2000
5 - WinXP
6 - Vista
7 - 7]]>Jul 23rd 2007 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/2. Microsoft Windows version 2.0/2.03 November 1987
3. Microsoft Windows version 3.0/3.1 1990
4. Windows 95 August 1995
5. Microsoft Windows 98 June 1998
6. Windows 2000/ME February 2000
7. Windows XP October 2001
8. Windows Vista
9. "Seven"

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I still think Microsoft should run to the finish line with Surface. That's some amazing technology right there. Have a touch-screen monitor and a flat-laying "Surface tablet" and then the real "Wow" would start.]]>Jul 20th 2007 9:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/
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Not trying to start the annoying debate of mindless bashing, but what exactly is wrong with Vista that needs to be fixed so desperately. I'm actually looking for an informative answer, not "macz rool teh interweb."]]>Jul 21st 2007 1:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/
While I don't personally own a copy of Windows Vista, I've used it before at other people's homes and have used it enough, in my opinion, to give a somewhat fair judgement about it's performance. I used it on a solid hardware configuration (I don't know the exact specs), and it seemed to be a bit laggy and resource-heavy. It just seemed to slow down the performance of the system with all the animations and stuff (but I'll admit, they were pretty).

And about safety, I figure it's just about as safe as any other Microsoft OS.]]>Jul 21st 2007 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/
However, I don't appreciate how they hid some things like the File, Edit, View, Tools, etc toolbar in Windows explorer. I still can't figure out how to make that appear permanently, though I'm sure there must be a way. Anyhow, that's the only real problem I've had with it thus far.

Security, you're probably right about, but it's probably not any worse than XP. Plus it asks for administrator permission for a lot of things now, which I first found incredibly annoying but have since gotten accustomed to. I still think it's ridiculous that Microsoft let it come to this, but at least they're trying.]]>Jul 22nd 2007 9:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 20th 2007 9:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 20th 2007 9:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 20th 2007 10:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 20th 2007 10:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 21st 2007 10:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/1. The new file browsing interface is broken
2. The new start menu sucks
3. Windows Networking is a mess
4. Windows Search Is Broken
5. Windows copying has not improved

How's that?]]>Jul 22nd 2007 5:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 20th 2007 9:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 20th 2007 9:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 20th 2007 9:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/http://www.engadget.com/2007/07/20/vistas-successor-now-known-as-7-due-out-within-three-years/Jul 20th 2007 11:59PM