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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[UPDATE: 6:35pm EST: Added graphic as per Dreil’s request below.]
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).
Microsoft usually gets it right on the the third version. However, they are chasing a moving target. By the time Vienna (and its mobile version, Schnitzel) comes out, no one will care.
A friend of mine wrote to tell me that he had a catastrophic Windows crash that deleted important data. He’s getting a Mac. He’s so mad he said that upgrading from XP to Vista is like getting rescued from the Titanic by the Hindenburg.
I’ve been laughing all day.
Excellent Microsoft… The next version of Windows five or six years from now will “blow away” today’s iPhone interface.
That’s typical Microsoft business practice. Windows 95 was a bad copy of “Mac OS 85.” Last year’s Zune was a bad copy of the first iPod from five plus years earlier. Windows Vista was a bad attempt to superficially appear to be Mac OS X 10.0. And now, a Microsoft engineer is boasting that “Windows 7” in five or six years is going to be better than today’s iPhone GUI and not run on a “big ass table.” In five or six years, Apple will probably have a holographic display.
Also, in the time it takes to get Windows 7 out the door, more and more regular Joe and Jane consumers will get fed up with Windows Vista and become Mac users.
Ummm I don’t know about you “guys” but I don’t think I would be comfortable playing with Microsofts “Vienna” on my DELL. Another typical MS announcement of over the top claims. When they ship it, yeah it will have touch. That will be 2012, oh wait, they are starting from scratch with basic Windows code. That will be 2015.
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Microsoft, always promising, never delivering.
@ Ryan,
Did you have a grilled crack sandwich for lunch?
TOUCH and SQUIRT!
I like me some Viener Sausages!
Hello I’m Realist. Macs are superior, er Macs suck.
Er, never mind.
Wow, Microsoft. Promises and MORE promises. I can hardly wait!
How much did they promise for Vista? How much was slashed in order to get it out the door… more than 3 years late. How much was actually delivered?
Microsoft’s 1980’s feint and scare tactics just don’t cut it today. The world KNOWS their routine. The problem is that MS has failed to learn… from the marketplace, from the industry, from their users, from competitors, from toothless monopoly “penalties” of the DoJ and the EU… OR, most importantly, from their own mistakes and miscalculations.
Microsoft’s visionary ideas of the technological future are a joke. Everyone but MS seems to know it!
I liked that, Gavron!
John
‘Blown Away’ by Paris Hilton Locke. On sale at Amazon.
“I don’t see how Mirosoft can do multi-touch, as Apple has patented the heck out of it.”
By the time Microsoft gets the new OS out, Apples patents have already gone to history… Patents are so time-limited!
…key word….blow
2007: After seven years and 6 billion dolars, Miocrosoft releases a chrome-plated turd.
2021: After 14 years and 60 billion dollars, Microsoft will release more chrome-plated vapourware.
But migod, the features!…
I can not WAIT to hear Ballmer’s interview when/if that ever comes out. “$600 for a phone?” haha.
Hey MDN, could you guys put the Ballmer + Gates “Your Frustration. Our Fault” graphic up again? It’s been too long.
Never has desperation been so apparent. Promise the Earth because who is going to remember in 3 years time eh. Sounds more and more like the empty promises of morally bankrupt politicians where truth is sacrificed for short term gain, but then that is precisely what Microsoft has become, such is the power they have claimed for themselves, and unfortunately presented to them by the real masters of the art.
Well.. that won’t happen in like…. 7 years or something, right?
Perhaps by then, Apple will have the cursor controlled by the power of the mind.
Microsoft, and the “Software Test Engineer and blogger Hilton Locke” just said it all, “I will say that if you are impressed by the ‘touch features’ in the iPhone”
What he wanted to say was “We at Microsoft are so impressed by the ‘touch feature’ in the iPhone” we should just give up.
How surreal is it that a company called Microsoft comes out with a product called Vienna, as in the tiny little sausage? Does anybody at that company even think before they name a product, even if it is for internal use?
New version of Windows will be better than a stripped down mobile version of OS X. A little like saying that they’ll produce a desktop OS that is more robust than Windows ce. No?
“cough” “bullshit” “cough”.
This guy should touch something else , maybe it’ll clear his thoughts.
sweet they’re making me wait until 2010 so i can poke around in a piece of crap… wait I can just go next door and do that now, screw you Microsoft
wow u guys hunt in packs, swarming his blog with harsh comments. He probably deserved it though. There’s no shame bigger than being a test engineer at MS. And to compare a product due circa 2010 with one out now… the wow does start now… ahahaha
ps. as tempting as it was, i decided not to post on his blog, it doesn’t give mac users a good impression