'Windows 7' Coming in June 2009?

[Yoon]

Although Microsoft previously announced that the next version of Windows (codenamed 'Windows 7') won't be coming out until early 2010, it appears that the development of Windows 7 is proceeding ahead of schedule and could see an early release next year, in June. More in the article by InternetNews here:

Source: InternetNews.com - Windows 7 Looking Like a June 2009 Delivery

Publicly, Microsoft has said Windows 7, the successor operating system to the firm's much maligned Windows Vista, will not ship until early 2010, but its internal calendar has June 3, 2009 as the planned release date, InternetNews.com has learned.

"I know they've been working on it feverishly, and the codebase is not all that far from Vista, so it's not a complete development project like they had to undertake between Windows XP and Vista," said Roger Kay, president of Endpoint Technologies.

I guess it shouldn't be a surprise that Windows 7 is coming out so soon, considering the fact that Microsoft is using Vista as a base template for Windows 7 and is treating this as an 'intermediary update', rather than an a complete overhaul, like MS did with Vista.

Although I'm perfectly fine with Vista x64 at the moment (BTW, superfetch is bliss), Windows 7 will hopefully bring some nice improvements, such as improved boot times and a 'less-annoying' UAC, both features which MS claim to be working on in Windows 7 at the moment. I could probably care less about the improved touch sensor features, something that MS is touting about with Windows 7.

For those that want to take a sneak peek at what Windows 7 looks like so far, here's a link to screenshots of the latest build from September 2008: http://www.thinknext.net/archives/2268

I wonder what the next Windows name will be...? My guesses:

- Windows PC (MS seems to be focused on their "I'm a PC" marketing, so this might be possible)
- Windows Seven (Even though it's only the code name, the name might just stick)
- Windows Touch (MS keeps bragging about touch features of 7, so this might be one)
- Windows Bliss
- Windows NX
- Windows NEXT
- Windows Green (Since going 'green' seems to be popular in marketing these days... )
- Windows Eco
- Windows Sense
- Windows Gates Edition
- Windows Sucks
- Windows ME II (Just kidding )

Anyhow, we'll find out later this winter, when the first beta of Windows 7 supposedly comes out.

[Jaegar]

lol name speculation. Reminds me of the Nintendo Revolution

Hmm, I haven't done anything with Vista really except mess with it a bit on that laptop (which got returned btw >.<)

I hope they work on making it less hardware intensive (or at least keep it at the same level as Vista). I keep hearing way too much about computers being sold with Vista installed that aren't able to run it decently.

[Yoon]

Hmm, I haven't done anything with Vista really except mess with it a bit on that laptop (which got returned btw >.<)

Was there something wrong with the laptop?

[Jaegar]

2 hours max battery life >.<

Optimization is no help when the manufacturer's listed battery life is 1.5 hours... (Found it a week after I got it). I returned it and got an Eee PC 901 instead. <3 <3 <3

unfortunately the 2nd SSD on this has failed so it only has 4GB >.< I'm waiting on tech support. At least I know all about messing with the filesystem from command line now... Other than that it's been perfect. I tried the default OS for a week but every time I wanted to install something it was a struggle for compatibility (I missed my compiz eyecandy too ) so I switched to Ubuntu Eee and it's working perfectly now.