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Windows 7 In 2010, Microsoft Says

Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) is backing off comments by chairman Bill Gates that the next version of Windows could be available as early as next year. "We are currently in the planning stages for Windows 7 and development is scoped to three years from Windows Vista consumer" general availability, a Microsoft spokesman said in an e-mail Friday to InformationWeek.
Windows Vista was released to consumers in late January, 2007. That means Windows 7 would not be released until January 2010, according to Microsoft's statement.

Speaking at a seminar on corporate philanthropy last week in Miami, Gates said his company might ship a new version of its Windows operating system as soon as 2009.

The news agency Reuters quoted Gates as saying that Windows 7 may be released "sometime in the next year or so." That would put the software ahead of the three-year cycle that Microsoft normally works on for OS releases.

Microsoft said Gates may have been referring to trial versions of Windows 7. "As is standard with the release of a new product, we will be releasing early builds of Windows 7 prior to its general availability as a means to gain tester feedback," the spokesman said.
"We're not sharing additional information at this time," the spokesman added.

Microsoft to date has said little about Windows 7, which had been in development under the code name Blackcomb. It was generally believed that the OS would ship in the 2010 timeframe.

Some computer users are hoping Windows 7 will present a slimmer profile than Vista.

To experience all of Vista's features, PC users need a computer with at least a 1-GHz processor, 1 GB of memory, and a 40 GB hard drive. By contrast, Windows XP Professional requires only a 300-MHz processor, 128 Mbytes of RAM, and a 1.5 GB disk.
Microsoft has extended the life of the older Windows XP OS for longer than originally planned -- in part to keep Linux out of the PC market's low end.

The company said last week that it would allow computer makers to continue to sell Windows XP on "ultra low-cost PCs" for an extended period.

Microsoft said it would allow system vendors to preload the Home edition of Windows XP on ULCPCs through June 2010, or one year after the next version of Windows becomes generally available.

Microsoft defines ULCPCs as, among other things, systems that use discount-line processors and lack a separate graphics card. Such low-spec machines would be incapable of running Vista.
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o Windows 7 é uma farça xD :berlusca:
Ainda não têm o vista estável já estão com o fogo no cu para lançar outro S.O.
Qualquer dia não há € pa hardware, telemoveis, PDA's e Laptops xD
 
resultado disto -> preços baixos.. ou então a MS vai se afundar

porém há algumas coisas que me estão a fazer impressão.. e cheira me que o Win7, tal como referiste zero_cool_pt, vai ser como estava programado no inicio.. um update ao Vista..

e o blackcomb na realidade não foi transposto para o Vienna na sua totalidade.. ou se calhar este nem o Vienna é..

e o Windows 7 é na realidade uma milestone na Kernel...
 
Mas este Vista é SERVER e o Windows 2003 Server não dá de forma habitual para se poder jogar nele. Neste novo server também não deverá dar. Porque existindo um Vista para domésticos o server é para empresas que querem usar servidores. Certo?
 
Onde foste buscar que este windows será da familia Server?

A familia server não está virada para reproduzir multimedia, nem para criar homegroups ou coisa parecida. ;) (e ainda bem que assim é...)

Aliás, o mais parecido na familia server que podes ver parecido com o vista é o windows 2008.
 
O windows server já tem um futuro, por acaso agora não me relembro o nome, mas ainda noutro dia o blastarr falou disso
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enquanto isso, aqui vai um artigo interessante
If I were to design Windows 7

My colleague and fellow ZDNet blogger Mary Jo Foley continues to polish her crystal ball about Windows 7’s delivery date in her last Friday’s column, based on interpreting new statements from Microsoft chairman Bill Gates as well as the party line about the already stated 3-year release cycle. I’ve always found Mary Jo to be very prescient about such matters as applying to release timing for Microsoft products, so I will defer to her experience that it is likely we are going to see a new Windows version sometimes between 2009 and early 2010. What this implies for me is that Microsoft is already reconsidering whether or not Vista deserves an early death. This is not surprising, as all factors point it to being a dud in the overall consumer and corporate market compared to Windows releases past. In a previous piece, I’ve already said that if Microsoft wants to reap immediate benefits from its development of 2008 Server, that they should release a Workstation version of it. Embracing such a strategy would only take them six months, at worst, to make the necessary changes and “Crash the schedule” on packaging and marketing efforts to produce the worthy heir to Windows XP. Click on the link below for more.
So I think based on Bill Gates’ comments, it is very likely that Windows 7 is in fact a new rev of Windows based on the newly released Server 2008 and Vista SP1 code base. The fact that Gates says it will take them a year, not six months, leads me to believe there is additional functionality being added that is going to require a year or year and a half’s worth of development time. Well, we know that Internet Explorer 8 is in the Alpha stages right now, and a year seems about right for it to make it into a future product. So it would seem that a Server 2008 core on Internet Explorer 8 steroids, themed out with Vista’s multimedia bells and whistles, such as built in Silverlight with an enhanced Media player and more driver support would make the basis for Windows 7. Pack it up, toss in a hundred million dollars worth of print and television advertising, and it’s done.
Still, one of the major complaints against Vista aside from the lack of drivers and its significantly higher hardware requirements is its Windows XP compatibility — it doesn’t always run legacy applications predictably. One could say this is one of the primary things keeping it off the corporate desktop, as XP apps still reign the roost. But what if Windows 7 had perfect Windows XP compatibility?
How would one achieve that? Well, the tools are already in Microsoft’s stable, in the guise of their Hyper-V hypervisor for Server 2008 that recently went into Release Candidate 1 status. What if Microsoft were to build a “Personal” Hyper-V into the Windows 7 client?
I’ve already been told that Hyper-V will not be ported to Vista, by Microsoft’s virtualization team lead at Microsoft, Jeff Woolsey. In his words - “Sorry, that’s not going to happen.We’ve done all of our development of Hyper-V for Windows Server 2008 to meet the top customer demands: server consolidation, high availability, business continuity and disaster recovery.” But there are already rumors abound that some sort of virtualization layer for XP compatibility may make it into the next version of Windows.
How would I architect it? Well, instead of giving an end-user Hyper-V as it currently stands, I would take the current hypervisor and adapt it so that it would permit operation of the privileged Windows “Domain 0″ OS on ACPI-compliant systems. Currently, Hyper-V isn’t designed to work well on laptops and systems that go into suspend mode, so ACPI functionality is disabled. For an enterprise server that’s no big deal, but it would create problems for a lot of end users if you had a desktop OS that made heavy use of virtualization.
In addition to making Hyper-V more desktop hardware friendly, I would make XP applications run out-of-the box without any additional software instead of putting the onus on the end-user to install a licensed copy of XP on the system, a la VMWare Workstation or Microsoft Virtual Server. All Microsoft needs to do is include a stripped-down XP virtualized subsystem that contains all the core Windows XP SP3 libraries and a fully Para-virtualized XP kernel, so that it will run on 32-bit systems as well as 64-bit Intel VT-accelerated and AMD-V enabled systems, with a “Seamless” way to present XP applications, perhaps via a internal RDP interface or a DirectX accelerated virtual video driver, without having to run a complete XP desktop.
Such a “Seamless” Windows approach existed in IBM’s OS/2 operating system, which allowed 16-bit Windows 3.1 apps to run on OS/2’s 32-bit Presentation Manager and Workplace Shell. It also exists in Sun’s free VirtualBox desktop virtualization software for Linux, Unix and Windows. Microsoft itself pursued a similar “Windows on Windows” strategy, back in the NT 3.x days, without having the benefits of modern virtualization technology.
Combine this with a user-friendly way to install the apps in the virtualized XP environment in the “Add/Remove Programs” manifest and a Control Panel dialog box to tweak the memory allocation and storage for the Virtual XP, as well as a way to quickly autostart it on system boot-up and to quiesce it on demand, then I think we have a better way to transition to the new OS and many end-user concerns about having to buy all new applications and regression test their old ones on Vista’s compatibility mode may be alleviated. Enterprises and End-users could run native Vista/Win 7 applications side by side with XP and older apps without fear of munging DLLs or breaking compatibility. IE 8 could run alongside IE 7 and even IE 6 for those environments that required it, as well as any specific XP patches and hotfixes or special modifications that a customized application might require.
If Microsoft wanted to take this to yet another level, they could have the virtual XP subsystem have the ability to launch multiple copies of itself, or create virtual “containers” so that a shared virtual XP kernel could partition itself into multiple logical environments with separate registries and application settings. Windows can already do this today with Parallels’ Virtuozzo software - Microsoft could license the Parallels kernel modifications and APIs and build those changes into the Paravirtualized XP.
Is the future for the next Windows client a virtualized one? Talk Back and let me know.
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Third-party themes now possible on Windows Codename: "7"

(No, I don’t mean native support)
I’ve been circumventing Microsoft’s theme digital signature checks since they were introduced into Windows Codename: Whistler back around Q3 of 2000. That’s almost 8 years. Today marks the availability of patched files to support third-party theming on the Windows Codename: 7 operating system for both x86 and x86-64 (AMD64) architectures.
You can grab the new files in the Uxtheme Patches portion of my blog. Get them while they’re still available warm.
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http://www.withinwindows.com/

ou seja, para já a MS ainda não suporta third party themes de raiz
 
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Shipping Seven: An Ongoing Dialog About the Next Windows
Part Two: April 2008

Since writing Part One of this series back in January 2008, a number of things have happened with regards to Windows 7, the next Windows version. First, there's been an amazing amount of silliness and speculation about the Windows 7 release date, in part due to off the cuff remarks from outgoing Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, but mostly because of bored (and boring) tech pundits who are eager to write about something controversial. Second, I've finally gotten my hands on Windows 7 build 6519, the first external build of Windows 7 to make the rounds outside the hallowed halls of Microsoft. In this part of my Shipping Seven series, I'd like to discuss both developments.
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gostei de ver o facto que no WMP o Em reprodução foi unido com a biblioteca.. afinal quem é que usava isso :p
 
Romani48 disse:
originalmente tinha se falado de ou gratuito, ou então com um preço bastante reduzido..
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Há uma coisa que tens de perceber. SO Windows e Gratuíto ou preço baixo não combinam na mesma frase. Repara, o ME também era basicamente um upgrade do 98... e não foi barato.
 
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Existem também diverso software que permite alterar o visual do Windows ao gosto de cada um: Eu uso por exemplo o WindowsBlinds e o ObjectDock Plus que me custaram 19 dolares cada um: Cerca de 12 euros e poucos e o Visual do meu Vista Ultimate ficou excelente sem com isso puxar pela máquina.
Jogo na boa jogos pesados sem alterações na perfomance. ;)

O Vista é altamente custorizável, é só dar asas á imaginação de cada um de nós.
 
Gates emphasizes PC-phone connectivity in Windows 7

Improved collaboration and connectivity between Windows PCs and cell phones is going to get a major shot in the arm with Windows 7, according to Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates.
During a speech for members of the Windows Digital Lifestyle Consortium in Tokyo last week, Gates referred a few times to Windows 7, the next version of Windows which Microsoft has said will ship in 2010. Gates highlighted improvements to Windows 7’s lower power and memory requirements that are in the works. But he also played up extensively during his speech the new connectivity between mobile phones and Windows which will be introduced as part of the release.
From a transcript of Gates’ remarks:
“We’re hard at work, I would say, on the next version, which we call Windows 7. I’m very excited about the work being done there. The ability to be lower power, take less memory, be more efficient, and have lots more connections up to the mobile phone, so those scenarios connect up well to make it a great platform for the best gaming that can be done, to connect up to the thing being done out on the Internet, so that, for example, if you have two personal computers, that your files automatically are synchronized between them, and so you don’t have a lot of work to move that data back and forth.”
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The file synchronization capability to which Gates refers is the Live Mesh collaboration/synchronization platform/service which Microsoft recently unveiled. But Gates made it sound like there’s something beyond Mesh that could be in the works for Windows 7. Again, from the transcript:
“We’re also a participant in building software for the mobile phones, and our proposition is to build a great mobile operating system, but also to have it be the one that connects best to the Windows PCs. So we’re working hard on both of those things….
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“For a customer there are going to be phones with larger screens, and PCs with smaller screens. In fact, there will be even an overlap, but I think the key for us is to drive all the applications, and let the user move easily back and forth. Our best customers are going to have a great mobile phone, and they’re going to have a great personal computer. And if we don’t make those scenarios work well together, that will hold back both of those markets.”
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Gates also told the audience that Microsoft is going to deliver a “major new version of Windows” every two to three years. (A caveat: Gates also said not too long ago that Microsoft would deliver a new version of Internet Explorer every 9 to 12 months. IE 7 shipped in October 2006; we’re still only at Beta 1 for IE 8.)
What’s your take? What kinds of new features in Windows 7 — and Windows Mobile 7, allegedly due out in 2009 — might improve PC-to-mobile connectivity and what kinds of applications/services would benefit?
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Ai está o que se quer.. mobilidade e produtividade
 
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Será que aquele "x86" é o que eu estou a pensar? Não ia ser só x64?
 
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