It looks as if Microsoft is now contradicting comments from their chairman Bill Gates. Gates originally had said that Windows 7 may be shipping as early as 2009. A Microsoft spokesman, though, as come out and said:
“We are currently in the planning stages for Windows 7 and development is scoped to three years from Windows Vista consumer.”
Since Vista came out in 2007, that would put Windows 7 into 2010. This was revealed in an email sent to Information Week.
Windows 7 is currently in the very initial phases of development under the codename Blackcomb. The fact that so many are already looking forward to Windows 7 is testament to the relative failure of Vista to impress, well, anybody.
Personally, I’m not waiting for Windows 7 for anything more than curiosity. For me, the big question will be:
Did Microsoft learn anything from the Vista debacle?
We shall see.
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Bad blogging from other tech news site. What bill gates stated was that the next version of windows will be released next year. Everyone assumed, probably due to bad reporting or incosintent facts. Whichever the case is, bill couldve been referencing vista SP2. I understand that its fun and popular to jump on the vista sucks bandwagon but should i really put a link here to infoworld.com where they stated how much XP sucks and now have a save XP petiton. Everyone is suffering from lack of forsight and hindsight. When we have a save Vista petition, then i will laugh and point out the blogs.
All I’ll say is contained in my blog post at http://kkomp.com/archives/1945