Marik Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 A first glimpse at the technology inside the next version of Windows will be given in October.Microsoft has said that engineering information about Windows 7 will be shared with attendees at two technical conferences it runs.Windows 7 developers will show off their work at both the Professional Developers Conference and the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference.Based on Vista, Windows 7 is expected to be released in January 2010.The announcement about the unveiling was made on a new Windows 7 blog written by engineers putting the software together.Before now details about Windows 7 have been scant. Writing on the blog the two senior engineers on the project, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, said this was because Microsoft did not want to talk up features that never make it to the final product.It was also wary, it said, of talking about features and technologies in a way that would cause confusion among its partners.Microsoft has also been reluctant to talk about Windows 7 as it continues to promote Windows Vista as its flagship operating system.What is known about Windows 7 is that it will use components from Vista at its core and that it will have a touch interface that, with the appropriate screen, can recognise gestures to complete tasks. For instance pinching the screen could be used to close documents or manipulate images.Industry experts have speculated that Windows 7 will also have more virtualisation technologies onboard as well as tools that make it easier for people to get at their data and programs as they use different machines. Source: BBC NEWS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bearoninternet Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Let's hope it's not a bigfoot release. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anteus Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Read that it's supposed to be more modular. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marik Posted August 15, 2008 Author Share Posted August 15, 2008 yep, also it's made for games mostly :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrVoice Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 How can an OS be "made for games mostly"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manpe Posted August 15, 2008 Share Posted August 15, 2008 Let's hope it will be more of an operating system than an application it has become recently. Although I suggest people not to get their hopes up, it will prevent getting disappointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marik Posted August 16, 2008 Author Share Posted August 16, 2008 How can an OS be "made for games mostly"?that's what the guys that tested it told me, it's light, modular, and it will be optimized for games Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anteus Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 Don't like the idea of an OS with bundled crap which can give one a hard to time if one wants to remove it, hope they put som installation options to remove/not autostart everything even though it's not needed and keep stuff away from only reg tweaking and put it in some GUI so the functions can be found fast and tweaked! With game optimization I hope som sort of autostart/services profiling. And only 64-bits release so everyone is forced to make the jump, 4 GB is too little (well I use Tiny2003 so I'm good but still I only got 2GB PC8500). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 Don't like the idea of an OS with bundled crap which can give one a hard to time if one wants to remove it, hope they put som installation options to remove/not autostart everything even though it's not needed and keep stuff away from only reg tweaking and put it in some GUI so the functions can be found fast and tweaked! (...)(...), it's light, modular, (...):pirate: Modular, so you will be able to select which things you want to install and which not and if wrongly selected when installed you will most likely be able to remove these things afterwards ;)@Marik: Why is this in the 'World News'? Looks like 'Software News' to me! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anteus Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 I think because it's big news and it's from BBC News. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marik Posted August 16, 2008 Author Share Posted August 16, 2008 I think because it's big news and it's from BBC News.yep, your right. I was at first gonna place this in the soft section, but then thought wtf this is a world 1st, so i placed it here.omg Disturbed - Indestructible 1st in the US, on the radio, everywhere...0mg i'm so happy :fool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shought Posted August 16, 2008 Share Posted August 16, 2008 I think because it's big news and it's from BBC News.yep, your right. I was at first gonna place this in the soft section, but then thought wtf this is a world 1st, so i placed it here.omg Disturbed - Indestructible 1st in the US, on the radio, everywhere...0mg i'm so happy :dance2:I'm fine with that :fool:You like Disturbed? Land of Confusion ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
demonon Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 Read about Windows 7 NUI: (Natural User Interface)http://uxevangelist.blogspot.com/2008/06/w...beyond-gui.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anteus Posted August 18, 2008 Share Posted August 18, 2008 Well I won't be getting a touchscreen in some time when I recently got a new 22" LG W2252TQ LCD :lol: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumant30 Posted September 20, 2008 Share Posted September 20, 2008 I hope this OS is good and not as buggy as vista Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dMog Posted September 21, 2008 Share Posted September 21, 2008 I hope this OS is good and not as buggy as vistait will be if people try to install it computers that run cannot even win98 like they did with vista :nono: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sumant30 Posted September 22, 2008 Share Posted September 22, 2008 Hmm ur rite but vista really sucks last time it asked me for drivers for a IDE. :wacko: :wacko: :wacko: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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