http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/ Engadget Comments for This could be the first video footage of Windows 7 http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2009 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
and people still bought it. PS
to the people who are mad that new PC's come with vista (seeing as they run vista perfectly)
what about all the Macs that come with OSX standard? ....

yea suck it. ]]>Jan 25th 2008 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
They release Vista which arguably strains systems that XP flew on, spurring a lot of hardware upgrading (and QQ-ing). Now they are going to release a "revolutionary" and "new" OS (built off Vista, wink wink) and all this upgrading is going to make systems run it very, very well.

MS will be praised for how much better this OS runs than the previous OS and the less tech-savy media will talk about how this is leaps and bounds a better product than Vista, and everyone not in the know will run out and get a copy to get away from that "awful, awful Vista."

Maybe I'm wrong, but it seems like a smart plan to this guy *points both thumbs at self*]]>Jan 25th 2008 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 5:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 5:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/*waves his magic hands*]]>Jan 25th 2008 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
This is an obvious fake - Microsoft doesn't all of a sudden have their shit together once Vista is out the door. But it speaks volumes about how many people are ready for the next Windows. I'm a PC guy, but let's be honest here; this is a case of OSX envy mixed with hope.]]>Jan 25th 2008 5:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 5:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 26th 2008 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
Remember a while back microsoft promised a big update to vista that would really improve it and windows media center? This is probably it. It might be why they kept delaying the service pack. Or it might be SP2. I'm not sure why they keep calling it 7 it just looked like a refined version of vista. Although, i could be wrong and it might just a very early build of whats to come. Maybe the main difference is under the hood and we can't tell ala a new filing system. Remember how microsoft had had plans to make vista off of some more robust filing system other than NTFS but backed out and instead inventing this tagging scheme? that could be a big leap that we can't see. I don't know guys. Just thinking. Any other ideas?]]>Jan 25th 2008 6:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
so i compared it to how Apple's OSX has looked the same for nearly 10 years now, how that is being hypocritical or trolling is a new concept to me, mister.]]>Jan 25th 2008 7:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 8:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 10:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 11:12PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=78z_cAOKMng

Shows the "connectivity" and "integration" across other platforms. And the sort of look maybe for Win7.

I'm not saying it's real though. Just a thought.

Also same video-like thing for this other Win7 concept: http://www.istartedsomething.com/20070314/microsoft-2010-rtc/]]>Jan 25th 2008 11:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 26th 2008 3:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 26th 2008 3:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
Worry not...they'll have a separate team of design guys somewhere working 24/7 dreaming up a marginally different design for the start button.]]>Jan 26th 2008 8:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
That said... there has to be something good to refine. In the case of Mac OS, the Darwin switch was necessary before it could be well refined. The same thing applied for Windows... Vista had to come out before it could be refined. And, of course, all software is like this... the best versions are never the "revolutionary" versions, but rather the "evolutionary" ones.]]>Jan 26th 2008 12:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
Seriously, that might be an early build of Windows 7, but they didn't change much except for the "about" section. Also, in the Media Center it says "Vista."

With Windowsblinds and all that stuff from XP, I can imagine that someone would be able to tweak a few of these things to make it look like "7" while it was still Vista.

Regardless, there really isn't anything to see just yet.]]>Jan 26th 2008 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 26th 2008 4:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 29th 2008 5:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 30th 2008 7:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
Honestly though, for as cool as the substance of this video was, it was incredibly boring. ]]>Jan 26th 2008 3:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 26th 2008 3:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
No - the reason is that during the emergence of Personal Comuting as a global phenomenon Apple CEO John Sculley( hired by Steve Jobs himself) FIRED Steve Jobs from his own company in 1985 ( before the wave really got rolling!) and then signed away all the secrets to Microsoft who then proceeded to have ZERO competition for the next 15 years until Steve Jobs returned to Apple.

By then the 97% dominance was created and even to that day millions continue to mindlessly defend and rally around the weaker products of Microsoft because they are 'the market leader' - maybe in market share and copying but not in innovation or product excellence they're not...but the times they are a changing ( oh apart from the fact that Microsoft has roadblocked Linux 5 years from now and employ a vast army of PR people to spread anti-Apple FUD to try and retain 'mob style' their leadership...

but hey ho 'I'm just another Apple fanboi' right?']]>Jan 26th 2008 5:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 26th 2008 9:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
You watch too many movies. ]]>Jan 27th 2008 3:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
What new features can I expect to get pushed to a later release of Window?]]>Jan 25th 2008 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
Sorry, I had to. Please don't let any flame wars start on account of my inane comments...seriously.]]>Jan 25th 2008 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 5:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
Plus, look at old videos of Vista or XP development. The UI often doesn't change until very late in the revision cycle. I'm calling this plausible.]]>Jan 25th 2008 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/it looks like fifa, feels like fifa plays like shit? ok then its the new fifa2010...]]>Jan 25th 2008 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
10.1 : http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/92/Mac_OS_X_10.1_Puma_screenshot.png

10.5 :
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/c/c0/Leopard_Desktop.png

Identical never looked so different.]]>Jan 25th 2008 7:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
Case in point. They look identical.]]>Jan 25th 2008 7:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Comparing Cheetah to Leopard is not the same thing as comparing Vista to this "Windows 7". That would be closer to comparing XP to this version.
With each update Apple has made some small cosmetic changes in order to keep the users comfortable. Over time and with many updates, yes, it seems like a big change.

I agree with Todd, I think this is very plausible. Microsoft wanted to change to a nicer looking OS and they did that with Vista. By doing that, they pissed of a lot of users by changing the look of their OS. Now that a lot of people have already adapted to the new look why would they drastically change it again? I think that they will stick with a very similar look and just make many changes "under the hood". Hopefully many of those changes will cause it to be more efficient and thus not require more upgrading.

And a note on the upgrading.. people really need to stop complaining about it. It is bound to happen every once in a while. Also, don't try to compare it to Apple either, they strictly control the hardware on their system and are thus able to prepare their users for upgrades as they come - not to mention the fact that you are paying double or triple. So unless you want MS to go nazi on you and drastically narrow down your options in hardware, just deal with it.

P.S. I have a MBpro so don't try to write me off as some MS fanboy.]]>Jan 25th 2008 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 26th 2008 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
How do you improve perfection? ;-)
]]>Jan 25th 2008 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
Vista works, but it aint "perfect"]]>Jan 25th 2008 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
did you see the "winky" smiley? jeez.
]]>Jan 25th 2008 7:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 8:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/Jan 25th 2008 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/25/this-could-be-the-first-video-footage-of-windows-7/
Alternatively, why don't they admit their mistakes and release this as SP2 instead of making everyone pay for another OS altogether? It'd be a nice gesture after Vista.]]>Jan 25th 2008 5:03PM