Windows 7 to arrive next year, says Bill Gates

You know, we should have paid a little closer attention to Microsoft's decision yesterday to extend Windows XP sales to "June 2010 or one year after the general availability of Windows 7" -- if the company was really planning on shipping Windows 7 in 2010, that first date doesn't make a lot of sense unless the plan is to ship Windows 7 much, much earlier. And hey -- what's Bill Gates doing telling investors this afternoon that Windows 7 will come "in the next year" and that he's "super-enthused" about it? As far as we know, the official Windows 7 timeline hasn't changed, so Bill might just talking about beta versions, but something's clearly up Windows-wise in Redmond -- perhaps Vista's wow is not long for this now.

[Thanks, Jon]

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 5th 2008 3:46PM]

Accept or deny? I 'll just deny all windows anchors and keep using my Mac, which does windows - 'tho why would anyone want to sink into the despair of DOS.

[OneLove Posted Apr 5th 2008 4:20PM]

skim is better

[OneLove Posted Apr 5th 2008 4:22PM]

god. This comment system runs like vista!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 7th 2008 10:49AM]

kinda flashy but not awesome?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 5th 2008 5:17PM]

No, Vista is NT 6.0, Server 08 is 6.1. It would probably be either 7.0 or a new kernel, for once.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 5th 2008 6:57PM]

About a month before Vista came out I purchased 2 Dell 17" 1710 bad ass laptops for our business. Basically top of the line at the time. It had the Vista ready logo on it. I went out and bought Vista the day it came out.I was a dedicated windows person. After the second unsuccessful install and numerous driver incompatibility issues and the fact it ran at about half the speed of XP, I decided to try a Macbook Pro. I couldn't be happier with it. I have defended windows for years against Macs and have come to realize it was a waste. I have Parallels and XP for just in case. And I never looked back.
Screw windows (whatever version it is).
P.S. Win200 was the best MS had to offer to date.

[Ghen Posted Apr 6th 2008 7:49AM]

Win200 suxored. The extra zero in W2K was what brought greatness.

[lolface Posted Apr 5th 2008 8:39PM]

why are people complaining about the requirements for vista wow factors so excited about a future os.if youre too cheap to upgrade now, how is 7 going to do anything for you

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 6th 2008 2:29AM]

"What new features is Windows 7 include?"
@ vdog89

A Really Super New & Improved BLUE SCREEN OF DEATH

[(Unverified) Posted Oct 8th 2008 4:23AM]

Poor Bill, with the contempt of Yahoo and now of "your OS users" , is signal that his company is in a low minced surely. Welcome to the real OS Battle "Gaties" :D

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 5th 2008 10:55PM]

The reason no-one is excited is because 3 years for microsoft isn't enough to overhaul the OS.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 5th 2008 11:06PM]

The interpretation of Bill Gates' comments are completely wrong.

He gives two choices:

1. He will support XP until June 2010

or (or means not necessarily related to 1. (fuckin idiots who wrote this article))

2. 1 year after Windows 7 arrives (which could be 2010 or 2020 or any year)

[cmmndr312 Posted Apr 5th 2008 11:49PM]

Yeah, you'd have to come here and piss about Apple and OS X instead...

[cmmndr312 Posted Apr 5th 2008 11:50PM]

Freakin' comment system...

Piece O' Crap

I give up

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 6th 2008 4:49AM]

I'm just glad I'm still using XP and never upgraded to Vista. I am open to new but to something cool, not craps.

[jdripper Posted Apr 6th 2008 7:48AM]

win 98 SE wasn't bad. Not nearly as stable as NT4.0 though

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 6th 2008 1:36PM]

Microsoft anything is a computer hate crime.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 6th 2008 11:37PM]

I don't mind the Vista that came with my Acer computer (uninstalled their 3rd party apps of course), but it did have a major bug with my onboard sound (it said that it wasn't working, even though it was, ha!). Didn't get around to SP1 on it, but I did install XP on it (which runs allright too). Oddly enough this was the same computer I had a year prior, only with more RAM, and a more powerful processor (AMD 2.1Ghz 2-core vs. their AMDx64 1.6Ghz single core). I might give SP1 a go, since I've heard lots of positives about it. Well, for a computer that was made for MCE2005, it runs Vista quite well.

Going to be buying an HP Slimline PC, sticking with Vista on it (but upgrading the graphics from onboard to an ATI DX10 small form factor card, and sticking a Hauppauge tuner in there: since the computer is capable of running the components). SP1 should be a breeze on it too.

SP1 is probably a big win for most folks. Where that didn't fix things, SP2 should. What SP2 did for XP was great, so Microsoft has no excuse for their next SP, IMHO ;)

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 7th 2008 4:49AM]

I can already do what Windows 7 promises with linux instead. With 4 floppies I can install debian gnu/linux onto almost any pentium 1, new world ppc mac (using different floppies), or better machine and then do a net install. I can also choose a web, dns, mail, lamp (http via apache, mysql, and php), or etc server as part of the install. I have been able to do this for several years. Maybe Microsoft will catch up yet with real operating systems. What was their slogan again?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 7th 2008 7:56PM]

i dont know who gives a crap about windows anymore
if people were smart, they would order themselves a FREE copy of any linux operating system, keeping in mind the virus free environment, and 95% of the software is FREE. i used Ubuntu and i am greatly happy because it is just out of this world.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 7th 2008 10:31PM]

Ah, the beauty of owning a Mac. Not having to deal with Bill Gates and his bull.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 9th 2008 11:08AM]

What exactly is so wrong with Vista?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 3:46PM]

bill gates ki maa ka bhosda

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 24th 2008 5:07PM]

the new OS had better be a whole lot driver and CPU friendly than the vista version...all it is a another version of ME..and that was a joke
the only version of Vista that works right with sp1 if any 64 bit cpu..it does not like 32 bit ( 32 bit version )...so this is tells me and others that just as Mr bill said he is going to drop 32 bit and go with 64 bit or faster..so if you do not have a duel or quad CPU like I have..and not very many others have...just stay with xp
and the cost had better come down..seeing that a OS costs more than a whole system tell you someting...they have to be the biggest bunch of fools to ever live besides the ppl that buy the boxed version ....give that up and go with the OEM version and control everything

[(Unverified) Posted May 14th 2008 7:31AM]

What most people don't realise is that Vista is just the beta release for Windows 7, and every poor bastard who has purchased Vista is just a test bunny for Microsoft.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 11th 2008 3:52PM]

I agree with the guy up there. RUSHING is a bad idea because it will end up like vista. :(

They should release a beta versin and keep working on the final product.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 28th 2008 3:33AM]

Did he even say anything, though? The whole article is just an assumption based on what they think he might have meant by what he said.

[(Unverified) Posted Jun 29th 2008 12:15AM]

Microsoft is moving to fast for the public. Nobody was really ready for Vista. They need time to adjust. The differences between operating systems should be less substantial, and they should always maintain a good backward compatability. Bill, slow down that 160 bowl of peanuts and let the regulars catch up!