Microsoft Software Test Engineer and blogger Hilton Locke said this week that the Windows Vista successor, codenamed “Vienna,” you know, like the sausage, will include new multi-touch features.
“I will say that if you are impressed by the ‘touch features’ in the iPhone, you’ll be blown away by what’s coming in Windows 7,” said Hilton Locke, a test engineer on the Tablet PC effort. “Now if only we could convince more OEMs that Windows Touch Technology is going to drive their sales.”
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Yeah, see, if you just wait for the “next” version of Windows, Microsoft will finally get it right. What’s that? You just finished waiting 6+ years for the chrome-plated turd they call “Vista?” And, they promised you the same things with Windows 98, Me, XP, etc., too? No, really, this time they mean it: just wait for the “next” version of Windows, and Microsoft will finally get it right. It’ll be amazing, we’re sure. Don’t be so impatient. Sheesh, you act like your time is so damn important. Relax.
Oh, yeah, we almost forgot: Do not, under any circumstances, watch or read anything about Steve Jobs’ Macworld Expo keynote a month from now. Just keep waiting for Microsoft to “blow away” a pocket-sized 2007 device’s UI with their next PC OS that’s due in 2010 (or so they say today).
first? i hate windows. they are stupid
Wow, I must unload all my AAPL stock now before it is too late.
And I’d wager a first-born child that “Vienna” will STILL be compatible with Windows 95, 98, Me, 2000, NT, XP, PDQ, DOA, and SNAFU applications.
Right? Sure hope so, for THAT, ladies and gents, is MicroSloth’s Achilles Heel.
i run into them all the time… the windows, that is… oh yeah, and stupid attempts at an OS.
Yes, I knew it was only a matter of time before Apple got blown away by Mircosoft
Yeah, I prefer doors! Much better!
“Code-named Vienna”. Just like the delicate after dinner cookies?
Windows….ROTFLMAO!!!! LOL! Oh my side! LOL!!!! Please….stop it! ROTFLMAO!!!!
No further comments needed!
Just wait a turd that does the touching…
Gee now that’s WOW Bill… scary but wow!
I hate to burst Microsoft’s bubble, but the only way for Windows to win is if the new version of Windows drops legacy support. Otherwise, good luck.
Windows Vista successor, codenamed “Vienna,” will include new multi-touch features.
And by the time it’s released, Apple will be operating with ESP. Multi-touch is so 00’s.
What are the talking about? MY WINDOWS VISTA BOX ALREADY HAS A TOUCH INTERFACE…..
Well, M$ has used that ole huntin’ dog of “just wait, we’re doing such great things you can’t imagine” so many times that even the most rabid Windows fanbois are starting to doubt.
But what better comic material can be found?
I don’t see how Mirosoft can do multi-touch, as Apple has patented the heck out of it.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/patents/apples-gesture-dictionary-a-fingering-chart-for-multi+touch-285176.php
The only thing from Microsoft that could blow us Mac users away is its corporate flatulence.
Talk about vapourware!
Forward thinking Microsoft.
“In ten years we will have what the other guys have now.”
The sad thing is, all the Lemmings will fall for it.
I would think that the next version after Vista would be named Lost Horizons.
It’s too cool how the roles have been reverses. MS devotees, despite their obvious blindness, are now reminiscent of Apple users circa 1996. Sadly for MS praisers, the past glory was not due to technological prowess, but a business coupe. Their Phoenix will not rise from the ashes. ‘Tis a pity.
two windows and a cup.
FUD ATTACK! It’s a classic Microsoft tactic. It’s the same freeze-the-market ploy that once worked by destroying Go computers. If you recall that story, a little company by the name of Go came up with an operating system for PDAs that was very advanced at the time. Microsoft responded with a press release saying that “Pen Windows” was on the way. Soon. There was just one problem: “Pen Windows” was vaporware. But Microsoft was so powerful at the time that one press release basically nuked Go. Sad.
Fast-forward to the present. Microsoft, big though the company may be, has a deep loss of credibility. Pushing out a blog might moisten the pants of the pundits suckling on the teats of Redmond for their income and dedicated fanboys. But a growing body of businesspeople and consumers aren’t taking Microsoft’s shill and FUD at face value any longer. Given all the hype and promises several years back when Microsoft first talked about Longhorn, only to see, many years hence, that the result was Vista damaged its street cred.
Apple is not a stationary target. Hockey great Wayne Gretzky never passed the puck to where his teammates were, but instead passed it to where he knew they WOULD be. In a similar vein, if the Microsoft blogger believes that Apple’s touch or other operating system features for the iPhone will stay as they are now and never improve, Microsoft will continue to be zigging while Apple is zagging.
The same day that Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone in the palm of his hand, Microsoft triumphantly introduced Surface, which used a ton of moving parts to display gesture technology on a table costing many thousands of dollars. The iPhone is in the hands of millions of people, and the Surface table is still um, in development.
To its credit, Microsoft has many smart minds working in product development and research. And candidly, the Surface technology demo was fairly slick. But the same could be said for the engineers and stylists at General Motors. Despite many brilliant people under one roof, the net result is often cumbersome, deeply compromised and behind the curve. The problem: top management and bureaucracy.
Apple has succeeded not only by brilliant industrial, hardware and software design, but also by having management that does not get in the way. Apple has become a large ship that is also incredibly nimble. The same can’t be said for the battleship Microsoft.
To the Microsoft blogger I say this: prove it. Bring it, fat man. Show me the money. Your FUD won’t do it any more. If your next version of Windows is anything like Vista, I will only say, Goodnight Vienna.
All I can say is 190!!
I’m getting my ten-foot pole ready now.
Help me understand this logic…
Microsoft is claiming that their NEXT operating system that’s due out in a few to several years from now will blow away an operating system on a phone that’s currently out….but will be by then OUTDATED itself….
So basically MS is saying, in 5 years, their next version of the OS will kick the but of an OS that is now a five years old…
Gee….what a win for MS…
I know I’m not the smartest apple in the bunch but even that logic escapes me that someone would be gloating over their product going head to head with an outdated product…
The next Windows Touch OS is controlled by your “Vienna” Wiener….