Windows 7 in 2009?
You may have barely gotten used to the idea of Vista but the next operating system is starting to loom on the horizon. Steven Bink posts:
While it has generally been believed that Windows 7 was scheduled for a 2010 debut, Microsoft has revised the roadmap and apparently moved up the release date by a few months: A recently distributed roadmap of the OS lists a release to manufacturing in H2 2009. Microsoft declined to comment on this date.
What will be new in the next OS? Bink says:
There are very few pieces of information about Windows 7 and the features it will bring available at this time. So far, we have heard only about new touchscreen features as well as – and probably most interesting – MinWin, a much smaller kernel of the operating system that takes up only 40 MB of memory.
If true, this last bit about the mini-kernel is especially interesting. Can it be possible that Microsoft is relenting on its insistence that everything, including the proverbial kitchen sink, be integrated into the operating system? Actually, it started to move away from that previously tenaciously held position in Vista. After battling governments and enduring long years of litigation to maintain the integration of Internet Explorer into the operating system, Internet Explorer 7 was isolated from the OS in Vista. Of course, the fact that the integration of IE into previous systems was a security disaster had something to do with it.
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