Windows 7 in 3 Years?

2010? I bet it'll more likely be 2012

Published on July 23, 2007 By Zoomba In WinCustomize News

Microsoft sleuth, Mary Jo Foley, has the word straight from Microsoft on when we can expect the next version of Windows... 2010. The news comes from Microsoft's Global Exchange annual event in Orlando, FL last week. Very few hard details were released on Windows Seven, but we do know that it will be 32 and 64 bit, and target business and regular customers. One interesting tidbit was that Microsoft is mulling over the idea of extending Windows Seven functionality through subscription-based programs.

If the next version of Windows is 2.5 - 3 years away, how will that impact Vista adoption?

Comments (Page 2)

whatwhere

on Jul 24, 2007

It'll get droped Im sure. Just like them wanting to add an activation limit to Vista, people complained so much that they scraped it entirely.

I'll say 2012 at the earliest! It could be 2020 and I'd still stick with XP over Vista

And in a year or so you'll be completely alone.

you mean vista isn't like winblows XP where you have a certain activation limit? so i can do a fresh install & activate my copy of vista like a thousand one times and it won't give me that "you've reached your activation limit" BS?

whatwhere

on Jul 24, 2007

And in a year or so you'll be completely alone.

bullshit.I'm not leaving XP for Vista til something I just HAVE to do cant be done on XP.Vista usability is horrible...and I'm not referring to drivers or program compatibility...it werked flawlessly on a borderline system.

But the user interface in general is complete step backwards...a scrolling start menu?What a joke!Intrusive search bars EVERYWHERE,no toolbars!tabbed dialogs replaced with individually opening windows.I COULD go on but people happy with Veeesta wont care and people stuck on XP wont understand how lucky they are.

not to mention in XP where you can go into your folder options and then click the "file types" tab so you can un-associate a file from a program in vista i can't find that option any where..i managed to find something like it but i forget how to un-associate files in vista..

Astyanax

on Jul 24, 2007

No BS at all. As long as its on the same machine with no hardware changes you can reformat as many times as you like. But you can re-activate 10 times if new hardware is put in.

And by hardware I mean CPU/Motherboard/Hard drive. Videocard and PSU don't count, and im pretty sure ram upgrades dont either. I just know for a fact that Videocard/PSU don't count as I've replaced mine within 2 months, reformatted half a dozen times with 0 activation issues.

v1rtuoso

on Jul 24, 2007

And in a year or so you'll be completely alone.

Doubt it considering how many people have already voiced their loyalty to XP over Vista on this thread. Sounds like you'll be the one who's lonely... either that or stuck with a bunch of really stupid friends.

whatwhere

on Jul 24, 2007

i gotta question,to make a long story short i did a complete fresh install of my OS (vista),my anti spyware,anti virus and firewall prgrams,i also activated them all including the OS and updates them all including the OS.i noticed that vista has the back up option of a "complete PC back up" which of course i did the back up,my question is if i nuke my HDD and do a fresh install then after that i do the "complete PC restore" will i have to

1) re-activate the OS and my protection programs (anti-virus,anti-spyware and firewall)
and
2) since everything is on the back up disks do i have to first install my protection programs first or will they all come back from the restore cd's?. the reason why i am asking is i don't want to find out later if something goes wrong with my system or i catch a nasty piece of spyware and/or virus and only having the option of nuking the HDD just to find out that the restore cd's will not put everything back as it once was.

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