Windows 7: The information lockdown continues
section: windows, for your questions: KezNews forum, 19.5.2008
When is Microsoft finally going to start sharing information on Windows 7? After all, if the Redmondians stick to their own oft-quoted ship target of 2010 for the operating system, that is just two years away.
For developers two years isn’t a whole lot of time when trying to make decisions about whether or not to build a new product that will be designed specifically to take advantage of new features and functionality in a new Windows release. And for IT managers struggling with deployment plans (as in deploy Vista now or wait two more years for Windows 7), that window on the next version of Windows isn’t overly wide, either.
When Microsoft customers and partners were seeking information about Vista Service Pack (SP) 1, some Microsoft officials defended the company’s new “translucency” (vs. transparency) policy. By sharing too much information that was subject to change, Microsoft wasn’t doing its customers and partners any favors, the translucency backers argued. But not everyone on the Windows team thought the new rules were good for Microsoft’s constituents. Microsoft needed to dial back its translucency hard-line, they said (privately — since they didn’t want to be seen bucking the powers-that-be).
It’s been almost a year since Windows/Windows Live Engineering Chief Steven Sinofsky made the new information-sharing policy clear in a Microsoft-internal blog post (a full copy of which I’m running on the site for my Microsoft 2.0 book).
I’m hearing increasing dissatisfaction from Microsoft customers, testers and other sources typically in the insider track that Microsoft still hasn’t shared any Windows 7 information. The silence is deafening — and disconcerting — they say. As was the case with Internet Explorer 8, the issue isn’t whether Microsoft’s Windows client team is sitting on its hands, doing nothing; instead, the worry is that Microsoft is moving full-steam-ahead to build a Windows 7 that won’t have a whole lot of input from outsiders. After the compatibility and marketing nightmares that have plagued Vista, one would think Microsoft might be interested in letting its users have more sway on what they really want from a new version of Windows.
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Comments(7)
2010 is a theoretically ideal launch date for windows 7 that will never be achieved! just
look at microsoft's history of pushing each and every os back a couple years.
i actually look for seven to be delayed. that will give microsoft a reason to say "i
told you so" to all of the companied that didn't want to switch to vista.
if you guys remember the same thing happened with windows mll, and windows 2000 and xp
followed also by two years
same as with win95 three years later came win98. vista
came out in 2007 three years is a 90% chance windows 7 will be launched on date
windows 7 = windows vista beefed up a more demanding than that of vista!
i'm
not really interested with windows 7 at all, it is just going to be another vista that has
hundreds of problems as vista has.
at least vista is catching up with the
compatibility issues now, windows 7 will just launch a whole new **** load of problems..
and when will anybody learn microsoft are never going to get it right!
same for 7
really? you took the time to read the article on a primarily windows based information
site because?
don't look surprised if ms would push windows 7 out at the end of 2009, it will be a far
less fat client, fast startup, an interface designed by the chief of adobe design, will
make heavy use of the graphic card, and can be installed on all your devices pc till
smartphone, it will try to push the possibility to have all your data on ms servers and
will also try to push you to use online applications as office will be. and you will be
given more choises to select what pieces of windows you would like to install, just as in
the old times with win98 or see it as installing server roles on your windows servers.
round september the information about this will be shared with the general public, while a
lot of the information is already shared, not openly but by some hunces. first betas will
be at the end of this year and at least the start of 2009. so christmas 2009 will bring
their new angel code name windows 7 to this world. happy new year 2010 and windows ....
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when are you all gonna stop pinning your hopes on microsft?
By yoyoma on 20.05.2008 - 01:05