“Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates’ words are being parsed for hidden meanings. According to my News.com colleague Ina Fried, Gates said this week during a speech before the Inter-American Development Bank: ‘Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new (Windows) version,’ Mary Jo Foley blogs for ZDNet.
“Microsoft officials are insisting nothing has changed: Windows 7 is due out roughly three years after Windows Vista’s consumer launch (which was January 2007), meaning in early 2010,” Foley reports.
MacDailyNews Take: So, Gates said “2009” last week, but now it’s already slipped to “2010.” Please see related article: Microsoft figurehead Bill Gates sees next version of Windows ‘sometime in the next year or so’ – April 04, 2008
In an earlier report from last July, Foley explained, “Microsoft officials told MGX attendees that the company is currently internally planning Windows Seven. So far, the company has determined Windows Seven will come in both 32- and 64-bit flavors.”
MacDailyNews Take: It’s amazing (and sad) that Microsoft still won’t be able to figure out how to do 64-bit right by 2011. Please see related articles:
• Apple does 64-bit right, Microsoft… not so much – August 03, 2007
• Apple’s Mac OS X Leopard is 64-bit done right, unlike Microsoft’s Windows Vista kludge – August 14, 2006
Also, from that earler report, Foley continues, “Microsoft officials confirmed the veracity of this Windows Seven information… Short answer: Yes, it is going to take us at least three years to release Windows Seven. Longer if it’s buggy and doesn’t hit the ‘quality bar.'”
It’s a good thing for Microsoft that Windows has slipped, according to Foley, “If Windows 7 were to hit in mid-2009, a number of users (especially corporate ones) would likely just wait for the next Windows release, hoping that the driver and application incompatibilities that plagued Vista might get ironed out and that changes that might introduce new problems would be kept to a minimum.”
Full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Beverly M” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Take: When you drop the “quality bar” on the floor, as Microsoft does, how difficult is it to hit, much less clear? Maybe that’s the problem. Perhaps Microsoft’s spaghetti coders are slipping and sliding (like Windows release dates) on those “quality bars” rolling around, then crashing over backwards and cracking their heads on the floor?
[UPDATE: 1:10pm EDT: Updated article with excerpts from Foley’s April 4, 2008 posting and fixed headline to reflect 2010 is the current target year for “Windows 7.”]
“What have these Bozos done?”
They’ve probably deflated their shoes and boarded the bus to the Future Fair. Uh, Clem.
“Why does the Porridge Bird lay his eggs in the air?”
“Army web site is hosted on OS X”
You’re quite right:
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=http://www.army.mil/
And the Air Force is on Linux, so good for them, too.
However, the US Navy seems to be using IIS, which doesn’t inspire confidence. I guess they never learned from what happened to the USS Yorktown:
“While Microsoft continues to trumpet the success of its NT operating system over Unix-based systems, the US Navy is having second thoughts about putting NT at the helm. A system failure on the USS Yorktown last September temporarily paralyzed the cruiser, leaving it stalled in port for the remainder of a weekend. … “For about two-and-a-half hours, the ship was what we call ‘dead in the water,'” said Commander John Singley of the Atlantic Fleet Surface Force.”
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/1998/07/13987
No doubt they’ll be using the Vista Model which means in 2010 they’ll scrape the core and all most all the added advanced features cause Windows 7 will not even build and they’ll go back to the NT kernel, Vista eye candle and start building out from there. Of course they’ll need to everything except the things that make Windows as close looking to the MacOS as they can make it and it’ll take 3 years just to get the WinNThack version of Windows 7 out. Think Vista with an eye candy plus pack.
All MS has to do to finish it in 2009 or 10, or 11 for that matter is hire another 2000 engineers. That way they can get it done and keep our resident Windows Trolls gushing with anticipation.
They can excite themselves knowing that opening a control panel window will require 10 steps. The options for opening a control panel windows and viewing it in various ways will go to 25 options. AWESOME!
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“Army web site is hosted on OS X”
“And the Air Force is on Linux, so good for them, too.”
Meanwhile the IRS is using a computer system that took them years of fumbling and bumbling to get to actually work. It ran waaaaay over budget and was years late. And it runs on Windows.
So what do we see in the news today?
Report: IRS Computers Prone To Hackers
Watchdogs Say Security Weaknesses Could Threaten Confidential Taxpayer Information
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/07/tech/main3998842.shtml
OMFG
@M.X.N.T.4.1
that was beautifully put , well done !!!
Ampar,
I think we may be revealing a generational divide, here. All this talk of slow releases of technology reminds me that I’m old enough to have typed on a blind punch tape, with original chad. I recall the tape had to be torn-off and physically loaded onto the line pickup device. When the line finally got around to polling my station, the message was transmitted at 300 characters per minute.
Naw. None of these guys are old enough to remember the “Hot Lead Enema.”
They must have been using Excel to do their math.
@AppleJack,
“None of these guys are old enough to remember the ‘Hot Lead Enema’.”
I think I had that video back in college. A young Jenna Jamison was in it, right?
You have all misread it.
“doesn’t hit the ‘quality bar”
If it DOESN’T HIT the quality bar… meaning, if it is not so pathetic that it hits the bar instead of clearing it…. they will need more time to make it as crappy as Vista… or M.E…. or any other Windows product really.
I mean, really…. you have to TRY to make a product as crappy as Vista.
The Dude abides.
It’s called “Windows 7”, because it’s going to take seven years to ship.
Of course, at some point it’s going to be renamed Windows 8, then Windows 9…
-jcr
Funniest MDN take ever. Such and image!
@Ampar
“The future? The future ain’t here yet, man.”
Your potential. Our passion.™
To AppleJack:
You were lucky. We dreamed of having . . .
(Actually, I was lucky enough to have learned BASIC using a graphite card reader. It gave new meaning to using a Number Two.
Then, posting to a BBS on dial-up from my Mac SE seemed like something out of science fiction. What happened to all that ASCII porn anyway?)
“The future ain’t here yet, man.”
I see you’re . . .
“. . . back from the shadows again. Out where an Injun’s your friend. Where the vegetables are green, and you can pee into the stream (and that’s important), we’re back from the shadows again.”
@ Ampar….
The ASCII porn it still out there….
http://www.asciipr0n.com/pr0n/pinups.html
LMAO.
The Dude abides.
Thanks, The Dude!
Sadly, none of those were ever my type. They seemed shiftless and keyed up with little control even for a simple escape. Thanks for the case in point.
all you FUDster MAC lemmings can make fun if you want, but this is HUGE good news. read the article again, i am sure you will see it……
Microsoft now has a quality bar.
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HAHAHA
I repeat. A Microsoftian year is like a Football minute.
In other news today, Miscrosoft fearling backlash over yet another delay to releasing a new operating system has decided to distance itself from the term Windows and and will now can the new OS, Door.
Yes said Steve Ballmer, CEO of MS, our new OS is swinging right along since we removed all Door jams and got rid of the knobs that controlled programming. Everything hinges on the fact that the sheep….errrr….clients have forgotten what a disaster Windows was and hope that Door will be the next best thing since sliced bread.
The Microsoft Quality Bar is located in the Chunnel under the English Channel and no Apple or LINUX computer shall ever pass below.
Anyone who has read Mary Jo Foley for any period of time would soon conclude she is anything but a rabid MSFT fan. Nevertheless, I am always fascinated by how many in the AAPL community feel the need to bash Windows at every opportunity, no matter the validity of their argument. Users promoting a truly superior product, which I believe AAPL offers, only debases themselves when bashing the competition. Frankly I don’t care if or when a new version of Windows hits the market. I’ll continue to use OSX as long as it offers me a better OS experience.
@Ampar:
As always, you are a font of joy.
MS is going with the Mayan calendar and hoping that the end of the world will come in in 2012, then Windoze 7 will be the last release they will ever have to suffer through and not see the continual decline of their desktop dominance.
OS XI on 2011? That will be THE real big release. It’ll be about a decade for the OS X run by then (face it, there aren’t too many intimidating common cat names left)
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Ampar is particularly entertaining today….