The way it's described makes it sound like Windows 7 will just be a better working version Windows Vista - still based on the Windows Server 2003 kernel? Come on! Going from the information here this should be called a patch (or SP) and not a "new" OS.

XP works fine. ill stick with that unless they really do some damage control with windows 7 cuz i don't feel like dishing out some hundred for a broken OS.

sounds like what it is to me :/

Vista is commonly seen as being bloated, slow and incompatible. Once Windows 7 rolls around, hardware will be much more capable in your every day machine, so it won't seem as slow, the bloatedness will be worked on by Microsoft and compatibility issues will probably just come with time, Vista is almost there.

Or the whole thing could sink like the Titanic, who knows. Point is most of us don't need to care for 2 years.

i dont intend to buy windows 7 a updated version of vista thats all great microsoft but do the people really need to upgrade to that when vista bugs and drivers issues are starting to iron out now ???? makes no sense to upgrade i hear there gonna have a new game in windows 7 tho a boxing one where you punch steve ballmer in the head so it might be worth getting. :)

here is the game

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The only way I'll pick this up is if it as stable as XP. I'm running Vista on my laptop and this POS has a tendency to BSOD when playing games. So if they don't step their "game up", I won't be buying.

Windows 7 end of next year

I wish Sony made a OS

it is assumed that it will be a version of vista's bests based on that, but i believe that it will build of off vista. it will be based around the same technology of vista, but i am assuming that it will be a whole new interface and a complete different perspective. so in short: Vista technology but new OS

u Retarded?

what happens to vista?

I only write this as I have recently bought a dell xps 1330 with a T8100 core duo and tbh Vista runs like a dream. Fast boot and hibernate, on par with spotlight integrated search feature, nice UI, Once you get used to control panel implementation it's fine.

I also have a mac os x 10.5 core duo 2.1 iMac and used to believe it was peerless but vista on my laptop matches it for speed and usability.

I guess it maybe down to hardware, vista is good if you have half decent hardware. I'm only runing a 2.1 dual core with 2GB.

Of course I may have been lucky with drivers etc. Following Vista SP1 dell released some drivers for my system and all was fine.

I am running Vista Ultimate x64 edition and have NO problems at all with it. NONE. I play all my games, I run all my apps, and I don't have any problems at all.

But then again I just built my computer last spring with Vista in mind... so maybe the problem is not Vista but the machines running them?

wow i just bought my pc with vista a week ago!!!

One would hope that the folks at Microsquish would get their heads out of their hinnies and design an OS that gives the consumer what they want but, then , this is the real world. Which OS version of Windows had the most known bugs at the release date? I don't know but would like to find out. Curiosity. Nothing more.
Maybe Microsquish should start looking over their shoulder now and then just in case someone else has come up with a better OS that would satisfy the buyers.

pay for peer2peer live - Both PSN and XBL use P2P and servers. £50 is about £3.33 a month which is nothing.

rrod - its being fixed for that matter

hddvd - i could say the same thing if Blu-Ray lost the format war, its your fault for buying into the HD formats in the first place.

halo3

zune - The lastest Zunes are suppose to be quite good, I own an Ipod 80GB Classic and while I like it, its not the greatest MP3 player out there.

dx10 - If programmers can actually make a game using DX10 rather than using bits of it then I think we could see a great looking game.

vista - Some people say its crap, others say its good. Pretty much the same with XP.

windows 7 - You have not even used Windows 7 so how in hell could you know if its gonna be crap for that matter or good. I can also tell you have some form of bias against MS by using 'M$'. Something which only fanboys would use, pathetic and annoying tbh.

Think of it as the Windows ME but version 2.

"For Home Premium 1GHz 32-bit (x86) or 64-bit (x64) processor, 1GB of system memory and 40GB hard drive with at least 15 GB of available space."

They tell people that they will be able to run vista on that kind of a computer but you cant at least not very well. That is a computer that should be on xp.I get sick of people saying that if you computer doesnt suck you will be able to run vista and then microsoft saying that a computer that does suck will run vista.

I can't wait till some early builds come out for windows 7. As long as the becnchmarks say that it is faster than xp and vista im in.

im so close to jump on the Ubuntu(Lunix) wagon.....>_< XP is actually decent....but VISTA annoys the Crap out of me T_T
The future is opensource i guess =D

i hate vista for a couple of reasons {it asks for confirmation to load my favorite apps}

it never remembers my favorite views for folders and i have to change them back {very annoying}

over comlicated to set a system restore point {and failed twice to restore}

other then that its ok, and yes you need about four gigs of ram to get the most out of vista

Actually some developers on XBL use servers, EA uses its own servers in all its games, the makers of Frontlines: Fuels of War use their own servers. Both P2P and servers have their advantages and disadvantages for that matter.

the next mac os will make vista 10 years older then it is. Then windows 7 will copy the next mac os and they will fail, and microsoft will fall off the face of the planet.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau