Windows 7 said to hit milestone
Although a public test version of Windows 7 is still at least a month away, Microsoft has hit a key internal milestone, according to several Windows enthusiast sites.
Several sites are reporting that Microsoft has hit the M3 (Milestone 3) stage, with the builds being distributed internally within Microsoft, as well as to some key partners. A Microsoft representative declined to comment beyond what has been said on the company's Engineering Windows 7 blog.
ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley said that she has taken a peek at the new build, thanks to a source of hers. Foley said that it appears to be fairly stable, at least in her short time with the software, and also noted that it didn't appear to be a major departure from Windows Vista.
She noted that the internal Paint and WordPad programs have a user interface similar to the "ribbon" approach used by Office 2007.
On his UX Evangelist site, Stephen Chapman posted what appears to be a screenshot of the new Paint program.
As for what this all means, Foley said that this may be the last key internal milestone before some sort of public preview version, possibly in time for the Professional Developers Conference set for late October. A full beta 1 version might be ready by year's end, she said.
The real speculation game has centered around when a final version of 7 will ship. Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has said he wants the release out by late 2009, although the latest hot rumor is that the company may be aiming for a release as early as June 2009.
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Windows 7 has a chance to make Microsoft look better. If it doesn't feel much different from Vista, it will probably miss that chance. It needs to have improved performance and fewer DRM related headaches, kinda like XP. Being pre-beta, though, I guess for now we will just have to wait and see.
About lipstick and pigs, who Gives a rats posterior ejection tube. This election is a ppredetermined given...Either one party or the othr will win. The parties are one thinly disguised as two, who create half witted pseudo-issues and each controversy is cleverly crafted to be a rallying point for both parties at the same time. Give a Man something to hate and give him something to love and his soul is yours. the process is no more than a pompous coin toss. The whole idea is to maintain the Status Quo. and Sagrada Egoismo or Sacred self-intrest. Just like the Software OS Monoliths. So Damn the torpedos and choose your sides like in grade school pe. Either hate or love, but expect more of the same.
All I can say is, looks like Microsoft is making a real good comeback in their products. I hope they keep it up. I have an iMac, ibook and a MacBook all with Leopard, but also have an XP desktop, Vista desktop and a Vista laptop and I never had problems with my Vista computers and works seamlessly with my network, Xbox 360 and my Treo. My only gripe is on Windows Mobile. I hope they will make it more stable and user friendly.
BTW my iMac is dead lately - I smelled something burning and it's coming from the Mac. My MacBook keeps on dropping the internet connection and can't update the software. "Oh wells." Right? Apple is all about fashion.
Vista, on the other hand, has tied my hands when it comes to easily working with audio and video for anything more than watching it. Thanks to the limitations put in place for Hollywood and the like, my PC is back to XP.
http://www.aeroxp.org/2008/09/windows-7-m3-hypothetical/
Anyways, here the reason why a big company with so many resources gets this so wrong all the time.
50% of the people that work there are drunks, yes this includes the managers.
Then take your pick, the remainder are (pot heads, coke heads, acid heads, e pillssssssss, and whatever else they can get their hands on).
There are a few people that have a clear head, but obviously not enough.
And a drug testing is not possible, because Microsoft would go out of business tomorrow, if they did that and would so many other companies.
I used my Mac as my main video editing and audio recording computer. Since it's broken, I used Sony Vegas 8 for video editing and Mackie's Tacktion as my DAW or audio recording in my PC's.
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by Beatnyama
September 18, 2008 4:40 AM PDT
- Why do you guys waste your time bashing Microsoft when you know you have already lost the war? Windows 7 is coming, whether its Vista SP2 or what ever else people are saying, its still coming, and we are going to buy it, buy a new computer it will come with Windows 7.
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See all 27 Comments >>You can say i'll downgrade to XP and all that, but really, MS doesn't care. So lets get some cups of coffee and wait for Windows 8, its on its way too!!