Windows 7 to be Revealed Tonight.

[DigiQ8]

Gates and Ballmer are down at the WSJ's All Things Digital conference to talk tech with Mossberg and Swisher, and it looks like tonight they'll be unveiling the first (official) glimpses of Vista's successor, currently known as Windows 7. We'll be posting live from the event, so be sure to check back at 6:15pm PT (9:15 Eastern) as things kick off.

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/27/windows-7-to-be-revealed-tonight-by-gates-and-ballmer-well-be/


Let's hope it's good

 

[Raziaar]

It won't be out until 2010 though.

Unlike with Vista, I will want to be a part of this. I wish I had been a part of Vista and gotten a free version of it(that's what happened right?) so I can at least have a version of it without having to pay half a grand.

It better be good, it's supposed to replace this crap that is Vista!

 

[DigiQ8]

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/27/microsoft-shows-off-snippet-of-windows-7-at-d6-reveals-multi/

That news is old i think.. D:

 

[Eejit]

I don't get why everyone expects Windows 7 to be magically perfectly stable and compatible with everything from release, unlike Vista.
Personally I don't really think it'll be any better, and by the time it comes out Vista will likely be about as good as XP is now.

 

[Laivasse]

And people are hoping for a less bloated product all round. Hoping in vain, I suspect.

 

[Asus]

http://www.engadget.com/2008/05/27/microsoft-shows-off-snippet-of-windows-7-at-d6-reveals-multi/

That news is old i think.. D:

Here is another article about their presentation.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=11899

They have shown their touch tech before as something they were working on for the future but never mentioned Windows 7 with it. It was always done on a big screen or table and talked about with professional uses or for the future home. But now they showed it on laptops for regular users.

 

[Beerdude26]

I just don't see why multi touch isn't just added to a service pack for vista though >_>

Monies.

Please give them.

 

[PimpinPenguin]

I don't see the point people make on why vista is so buggy and stuff, I've been developing on several versions of vista and I havn't realy had any problems at all. I can't wait to see more of the heart of Windows 7 I just don't see why multi touch isn't just added to a service pack for vista though >_>

Microsoft is not going to make that mistake again. They have already given XP to much IE7 etc that has effected Vista, since it has nothing new now, XP has all the major features at the expense of Vista. Microsoft have realised this.

 

[Tarkus]

Microsoft is not going to make that mistake again. They have already given XP to much IE7 etc that has effected Vista, since it has nothing new now, XP has all the major features at the expense of Vista. Microsoft have realised this.

Still no DX10 though -_-

 

[VirusType2]

what? you're crazy.

Business OS with touch screen tech built in a gimmick?


EDIT; i remember back in the late 90's, in the mall they had information kiosks with touch screen displays. probably a $10,000 kiosk could now be had for a fraction of that, and readily available.


it's not the only thing they will add, or it wouldn't be worth making a new OS.

However, I don't think I'll ever need anything else to do everything I want to do. XP for life IMO.

 

[PimpinPenguin]

what? you're crazy.

Business OS with touch screen tech built in a gimmick?


EDIT; i remember back in the late 90's, in the mall they had information kiosks with touch screen displays. probably a $10,000 kiosk could now be had for a fraction of that, and readily available.


it's not the only thing they will add, or it wouldn't be worth making a new OS.

However, I don't think I'll ever need anything else to do everything I want to do. XP for life IMO.

Lol at XP for life.
I remember people saying 98 for life.
Bring on seven.

 

[VirusType2]

Minority Report stuff

http://cache.gizmodo.com/assets/resources/2007/07/touchcomputing.jpg


it's extremely cool, and has it's uses, but its no use for me. I really don't think there will be another OS that is better suited for what I do for a long time.

I'm serious though. I never used their old OS's and thought to myself, 'this couldn't be any better.' - it's just Xp.


If I skip Windows 7, that will probably be 2015 before another OS, then ..



I'm sure by 2020, OS's will be slick though, but, well, who knows.

 

[giant384]

so anyone have any info on this at all? i haven't seen anything about covering this anywhere.

 

[Iced_Eagle]

so anyone have any info on this at all? i haven't seen anything about covering this anywhere.

That's because there is nothing besides the fact that it will have motion sensing and a tweaked start menu known as the SuperBar, though there are no details around this (it is not like OSX dock irregardless of what others have said).

There will be more revealed at PDC where they will go all out.

http://www.microsoftpdc.com/Agenda/Sessions.aspx

Here are the four Windows 7 sessions currently planned.

Windows 7: Graphics Advances

Windows 7 enables you to advance the graphics capabilities of your applications while carrying forward existing investments in your Win32 codebase, including GDI and GDI+. New enhancements to DirectX let Win32 applications harness the latest innovations in GPUs and LCD displays, including support for scalable, high-performance, 2D and 3D graphics, text, and images. Also learn how to leverage the GPU's parallelism for general-purpose computation such as image processing.

Windows 7: Optimizing for Energy Efficiency and Battery Life

A single application can reduce mobile battery life by up to 30%. Windows 7 provides advances for building energy-efficient applications. In this session we will discuss how to leverage new Windows infrastructure to reduce application power consumption and efficiently schedule background tasks and services.

Windows 7: Touch Computing

In Windows 7, innovative touch and gesture support will enable more direct and natural interaction in your applications. This session will highlight the new multi-touch gesture APIs and explain how you can leverage them in your applications.

Windows 7: Web Services in Native Code

Windows 7 introduces a new networking API with support for building SOAP based web services in native code. This session will discuss the programming model, interoperability aspects with other implementations of WS-* protocols and demonstrate various services and applications built using this API.