Windows 7 to be revealed tonight by Gates and Ballmer, we'll be there
By Ryan Block 
posted May 27th 2008 8:43PM
posted May 27th 2008 8:43PM
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Exciting stuff, hopefully it doesn't look exactly like Vista like in the screens we've seen thus far.
My guess is that it will be Vista with the new filesystem and the 'shortcommings' removed... the problem is that Vista has horrible consumer branding right now, so they need to get a replacement in there.
Don't forget the videos!!!
Pretty much all early builds of new OSes look like their predecessors. It'll have its own distinct look by the time it's released.
Hopefully it'll be less bloated than Vista is, way too much code.
If I were Gates, I'd take a billion and use it to build a NanoSuit like in CRYSIS.
I'd wear it to meetings.
Anything short of a Minority Report interface and I'll consider it a fail.
Is the nano suit going to be used to fend off the eggs, if Windows 7 is as bad as Vista?
Look & feel is usually one of the last things they address for a Windows launch-- or at least, one of the last things unveiled.
Balmer looks like a big douche retard in that picture. lol.
I will be watching :)
I'll be watching too, and someone better get their camera ready in case another crazy dude tries to chuck eggs or pies at them.
I'll believe 2010 when I see it. But, I do expect it to be good when it finally does come out.
I'll be yawning.
Wow, even though Vista hasn't been the greatest, I thought it would at least hold out a few more years.
they are simply 'announcing' Windows 7, it still wont come out til 2010
2010 is still pretty quick...and didn't someone at microsoft say late 2009 as a possibility?
Sinofsky's in charge of Windows now, so we're looking at regular 3-year releases of Windows. From what's known, Windows 7 will keep Vista's architectural changes so we will have zero compatibility problems (or very few anyway).
Hell ya!
Looking forward to the coverage.
Hmmm demoed this early ? Out next year I think, heavily based on XP with a light weight kernel and new flashier faster GUI.
Dear God Bill sure ain't a looker but sitting next to Big Steve he looks like a supermodel.
wdf you talking about Balls is HOT!
@Nik - I agree with you bro. I guess we'll see though.
I'm taking bets as to when it will come out. My prediction 2016.
Ugh. Balmer is the most annoying person in the world to me. I don't know if it's the stupid things he says or does, or if it's how annoying his voice is.
Developers, developers, developers, developers...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUN4xNFwFRo
If that song doesn't make you love Ballmer's words and actions, something's wrong with you.
I am a mac user and I am excited for this event!
Same here. I can't wait to see where they go with the UI in this version. Hopefully it won't look exactly like Vista.
Right, so we have the Developers Conf in about a week, thsi is about the right time for MS to jump in and declare to the world...
"MOST OF YOUR DRIVERS WILL WORK! REJOICE.."
But of course they won't......;)
Hopefully it won't look like Mac OS 10.6, either.
They should lock it up like Apple does with the OSX and sell hardware, no more open PC...
I'm hoping that's sarcasm. They'd be sued so fast.
I was trying to piss off people, why did you all rank me up?
FIRST
does it play run Doom?
does it run crysis?
Second!
LOL at M$ locking up the OS
as usual they can only copy apple!
Balmer looks like one of the Goomba's from the "Super Mario Bros. The Movie" flick. Just picture him green, in leather, with a harmonica.
Don't hold your breath, its probably won't come out until 2012.
It might look like vista but the kernel won't be vista nor will it be xp.
This article says that it will be a from-the-groud-up rebuild of the codebase and will likely NOT be binary-compatible with previous versions of windows:
http://thebetaguy.com/exclusives/?postid=1029344029
I remember another OS that promised a ground up rebuild. I think it's name began with a 'V'...
Nothing on the scale of what that article mentioned was ever described as part of vista.
If this was an Apple thing, there would have been 200 posts on humors of the announcement in the past 3 months.
I still love you, Engadget, because without you, I wouldn't even know this is happening.
Live video feed? 56k preferably...
Sign me up .. Give me Vistas look , with more speed (transferring LARGE files, aka Bluray backups to my server) And im there
People have commented I got a mac because of "how it looks", but honestly Vista has lots of the eyecandy that I don't like the look for some reason.
I prefer the clean look of XP (silver) or the more grey but still colorful look of Leopard.
They are trying to get away from the XP to Vista forever timescale. Hopefully this will result in cheaper prices.
What ive heard is that its based on xps kernel with all the nice stuff vista brough (the clean looks...dont know much about anything else)
i hope windows will wake up and see that more coding piled on top of old OS's is not the key....stop being lazy and redesign it please
It's amazing how forgiving PC users can be for such a boondoggle like Vista - and you drool whenever Gates/Ballmer "announces" something just like you say Apple fanboys do with Jobs.
just because you get excited for something new doesn't mean your a fanboy, I was excited to hear about leopard but I'm certainly not a mac fanboy...
Definitely. I would say I'm a bit of an apple fanboy but it doesn't stop me looking forward to seeing what Windows 7 is gonna be like
either your statement is extremely overstated and just generally wrong, or my perspective is skewed by my own bias, the latter of which I highly doubt because of how awesome and great I am.
first off, I'm not sure what a "boondoggle" is, but Vista isn't as bad a s people make it out to be. I have been using it for over a year now and have had zero problems, I avoided the driver issue by getting a laptop that was sold with Vista, and is certainly powerful enough to run it. Like previously stated it doesn't make people fanboys to be excited by new products, I get excited each time Apple refreshes the Macbook Pro and others, but I'm no mac fanboy. I don't think anyone drools when Ballmer is around except Ballmer himself.
Can someone confirm if 9.15pm eastern time is 2.15am wednesday morning GMT? As in 10 minutes from now
that is correct
cheers john I just wanted to check...I'm up anyway studying so may as well catch the liveblog
Do you know what time it is in Tokyo?
4:00 PM. Tomorrow. It's the future!
Should be good. I'm still hoping for a serious compatibility break so that they can fix as much as possible without worrying about outdated crap.
Go POSIX!
Who gives a crap.
I'll be watching!
:P
I think I just pee'd in my pants a little.
I've been disappointed by every Windows release since Windows 98 got USB support. If you can push the Start button in Windows 7 and use less than 200MB of RAM I'll be surprised.
Wait a minute - there going to announce something -new-? But Apple hasn't even begun to talk much about 10.6, or 11.0 for that matter, so where are they going to get their ideas?
Surely this isn't something they designed from the ground up. We all saw what happened with Windows ME. You think this could be the long-anticipated Windows YOU?
Actually, I did hear about a new feature in Windows 7. Instead of 'drivers', they are going to call them 'chauffeurs'. Woohoo!
Should they really be doing this when Vista still has the lowest consumer response since Windows ME? Shouldn't they spend a bit more time making Vista work like it should?
He's the on of the richest men in the world and yet he still has no style and buys clothes four sizes two big...
He's the on of the richest men in the world and yet he still has no style and buys clothes four sizes two big...
That outfit is actually a jumpsuit that he wears on top of his regular clothes in case he gets pied. That way he'll have a clean pair of cloths underneath that he can wear.
He's one of the richest*
successor to Vista??? for once i thought they were talking about Windows Mobile 7.
Please, Please Media Center improvements!
Betcha they'll promise the mother of all vaporware, WinFS, in Win7, only to yank it a couple months before launch. Curse you Microsoft! I always fall for that.
So does this mean that MS is already flushing Vista down the toilet or that in a few more years Windows 7 will be ready?
I'm sure they won't make the same mistake twice. Windows 7 should be a solid OS as long as it's built on Windows XP.
So instead of using "The Wow starts Now", they'll use "I'm in Heaven with Seven". I'd better put a copyright on that phrase or they'll steal it from me.
boner
who cares? After waiting 6 YEARS for that steaming pile of dogshit aka Vista I switched to the Dark Side and could not be happier. Best of luck with Windoze 7 Bill but I won't be back. O and as another poster wrote, I also will consider 7 a FAILURE if it's anything short of Minority Report....
Here's a sneak preview: it took 300 years to develop and costs a total of 500 billion dollar, and it has absolutely no code from vista nor xp or w2k.
WE SWEAR ALL THIS MIGHT BE TRUE (in some alternate universe).