Windows 7, anyone...?

[JustaGeek]

PCWorld article here.

Could this be true...?

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: JustaGeek
PCWorld article here.

Could this be true...?

I heard there was a Trojanized fake on P2P networks. If it sounds too good to be true... yeah.

Update: fake, but apparently not Trojanized... this time. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...ows_7_fake_bittorrent/

 

[nerp]

The point I take from all this is that PC World manages to keep going downhill even though they weren't so high up to begin with and neowin remains a rampant noobfest.

 

[Aberforth]

Windows 7 will not look like vista :/ they must have leaked future Vista Ultimate Extras

 

[Ken90630]

Ummm ... shouldn't the successor to be Vista be considered Windows 8?

1. Windows 3.1
2. Windows 95
3. Windows 98
4. Windows 2000
5. Windows ME
6. Windows XP
7. Windows Vista
8. Windows _________

Why is it being called "7"?

 

[jhu]

Originally posted by: Ken90630
Ummm ... shouldn't the successor to be Vista be considered Windows 8?

1. Windows 3.1
2. Windows 95
3. Windows 98
4. Windows 2000
5. Windows ME
6. Windows XP
7. Windows Vista
8. Windows _________

Why is it being called "7"?

it's based on the nt kernels:

1) windows 3.51
2) windows 4.0
3) windows 5.0 (windows 2000)
4) windows 5.1 (windows xp)
5) windows 6.0 (windows vista)
6) windows 7.0 (windows 7)

 

[blackangst1]

Looks too much like Vista IMHO to be real.

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: jhu

Originally posted by: Ken90630
Ummm ... shouldn't the successor to be Vista be considered Windows 8?

1. Windows 3.1
2. Windows 95
3. Windows 98
4. Windows 2000
5. Windows ME
6. Windows XP
7. Windows Vista
8. Windows _________

Why is it being called "7"?

it's based on the nt kernels:

1) windows 3.51
2) windows 4.0
3) windows 5.0 (windows 2000)
4) windows 5.1 (windows xp)
5) windows 6.0 (windows vista)
6) windows 7.0 (windows 7)

It's unlikely that "Windows 7" will be a 7.0 OS, rather it's very likely to be a 6.xx release. MS is staying pretty tight-lipped, but it's not sounding like we're going to get a lot of core changes for it like we did with Vista that would necessitate a version number incrementation.

Originally posted by: blackangst1
Looks too much like Vista IMHO to be real.

Looks don't count for much, any new OS would get its new UI in later builds, earlier builds would be lower-level changes.

 

[Snapster]

Originally posted by: ViRGE

It's unlikely that "Windows 7" will be a 7.0 OS, rather it's very likely to be a 6.xx release. MS is staying pretty tight-lipped, but it's not sounding like we're going to get a lot of core changes for it like we did with Vista that would necessitate a version number incrementation.

Yup, from the looks of it, it'll be a 6.1 release. If it's based on MinWin then it'll be 7.0, but sounds like they are moving it forward so MinWin is out of the picture for now. They should just patch Vista seeing if it's not going to be much changes.

 

[VinDSL]

Originally posted by: ViRGE
It's unlikely that "Windows 7" will be a 7.0 OS, rather it's very likely to be a 6.xx release.

Originally posted by: Snapster
Yup, from the looks of it, it'll be a 6.1 release...

Yes, from THE LOOKS of it!

 

[dragonic]

Originally posted by: VinDSL

Originally posted by: ViRGE
It's unlikely that "Windows 7" will be a 7.0 OS, rather it's very likely to be a 6.xx release.

Originally posted by: Snapster
Yup, from the looks of it, it'll be a 6.1 release...

Yes, from THE LOOKS of it!

Well if we take how it looks like then Windows 7 is gonna be almost excatly like Vista :roll:

M1 is premilinary build of Windows 7 which, suprise suprise (..not), is being built on the vista codebase so everything we see should be held as a placeholders. We will know for certain what kernel version will be used when later builds hit the web. Now it's more of "improved" version of Vista.

Snapster: MinWin isn't anything new, it is just the NT kernel with all the dependencies stripped out so it can run without GUI and other stuff. The guy who first showed this said as much.

 

[Snapster]

Originally posted by: dragonic

Snapster: MinWin isn't anything new, it is just the NT kernel with all the dependencies stripped out so it can run without GUI and other stuff. The guy who first showed this said as much.

I know it's been on the backburner for several years, but the goal isn't to just make it run without a GUI. The premise behind it is to make windows completely modular and only pull in and and use what is needed and when such as gdi32, ntdll etc rather than just a list of pre-decided dependancies which we currently have. We've seen some of the results of this in vista and server core. Windows 7 could/should be the natural progression and we might see more of the 'old' windows stripped out as it's no longer needed.

 

[tatteredpotato]

If it were Win7, its mostly likely just a reworked kernel atm, explorer and aero probably haven't been touched at this point.