Windows 7

MaryJo Foley put up the notice today, that the next revision of Windows will be called 7.
Well -  isn’t that special?
After all the hoopla over Vista, it really makes no sense to go after another cutesy name, or even something lofty or poetic, for that matter.  The choice of 7 gets the point across [...]

Bill Gates is gone. For most, new computers with Windows XP are gone. Things with Vista are not much better than they were a year and a half ago. So, what is happening?
The Microsoft apologists are all coming out of the woodwork – it’s their time, Microsoft is not doing so well, after all, it [...]

From PC World
Microsoft will ship Windows 7 sometime in or near Jan. 2010, according to a letter company senior vice president Bill Veghte sent to Microsoft customers Tuesday.
The letter, sent to enterprise and business customers, will eventually be publicly posted on Microsoft’s Web site. In the letter sent to “Windows Customers” and titled “An [...]

It’s very funny how the tongues wag about some things. Several sources reported that Intel is staying with Windows XP, and along comes Ed Bott, of ZDNet, Vista’s chief apologist, with the news that Intel was this way during the transition of Windows 2000 to XP – they waited quite a while before moving to [...]

The campaign is on. The many minions of Microsoft are setting out on their appointed tasks, to speculate on what will and won’t be in the next revision of Windows, what needs to change, and be sure that the public is no better off than they were before the project started – but they will [...]

In an entry of Microsoft Subnet, on Network World, Mitchell Ashley lets out the news that the previously vaporous Windows 7 will be previewed at the Wall Street journal’s All Things Digital conference.
Then he almost immediately recants that, saying he is not sure if ‘7′ will be shown. This is the sort of ’smoke and [...]