TG Daily has gotten there hands on a valuable piece of information … an early roadmap for Windows 7! Microsoft previously said that general availability of Windows 7 will be in 2010, which may still hold true. Here’s the milestone estimates that was outlined in the roadmap:
- Milestone 1 – Already available to Microsoft Partners.
- Milestone 2 – April/May 2008
- Milestone 3 – Third Quarter 2008
- Beta – To be determined
- Release Candidate – To be determined
- RTM – Second half of 2009
It’s likely that if Windows 7 gets sent to the manufacturer late in 2009 that a consumer release will follow in 2010. As we saw with Vista, the consumer availability was over 2 and a half months after the operating system RTM’d.
All of this will be confirmed when Microsoft announces the requirements for the Windows Logo Program for Windows 7, which they say will be available at least 18 months before the RTM date. If the 2009 RTM date holds true we should hear about the Windows 7 Logo Program by July 2008.
In terms of new features and functionality in Windows 7 there has been little information leaked. The most we know at this point is that Microsoft plans on adding touchscreen features to the operating system. They are probably doing that in hopes of boosting Tablet PC sales by introducing devices that can receive input from both a stylus and by touch.
Hopefully more information regarding Windows 7 will leak soon, because I’m anxious to see what Windows 7 might include. 
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Just wow. MS will **** themselves about this information getting out. Remember how mad they were when the fist leak happened regarding v7 right about the same time when everyone was realizing that Vista is a rotten egg? They must be in a HUGE hurry to get Windows 7 out based on all the negative feedback they keep getting over Vista.
This time around they sure as heck better offer something besides higher system requirements, useless graphics, and little tangible improvement over XP.
Buckle up, here we go again. It’s the “OMG! LOL! WTF! The next Windows is gonna ROCK!” treadmill…coming soon.
How about supporting Windows Vista first?
Windows Vista born dead, brainless. I hope windows 7 doesnt come out with video/music restrictions like drm-bullshit or something like that.
I would say isn’t that a bit too soon, but then again Ubuntu (and most other Linux Distros) have a 6 month release cycle with every couple of years a LTS, Mac has a yearly release, so it won’t be too bad but since Windows is such a huge market share, I really don’t know how the public is going to act especially since Win XP was on the market for 5 years. In those 5 years the market share for computers have gone up dramatically so this is going to be one heck of thing to to chock down for some people.
If they are really going to release it in second half of 2007 then a lot of work is cut out for them because as they say it will have a fundamentally different architecture from windows then not much time is left.But after observing their efforts with Vista I don’t have high hopes but time will decide 8O.
TG Daily has gotten THEIR hands on a valuable piece of information…
I guess Microsoft is really desperate to try to recapture some of the Microsoft faithful to be releasing the next version so soon. I think it’s a good idea since Vista is not looked upon so well in the poll of public opinion. If all I’m hearing about version 7 is true maybe it will be worth the upgrade from XP, much more so than Vista. I just hope they will have enough drivers in place and better x64 support before v7 is released.
I’ve been hearing a lot of people saying that if Windows 7 is good then they plan on upgrading from XP, but I think the initial result is going to be an unpleasant one. Drivers will have problems, software compatibility will be poor initially, and there will likely be problems all around. That’s always the case when a new version of Windows comes out.
People want revolutionary change, but they also want extensive compatibility. Unfortunately I don’t think there is a happy medium.
I find a clean install is always the way to go when upgrading; especially when skipping a version during the upgrade. The question is will Windows 7 really be modular as they say it will be? If it is it may run well on the same hardware as XP, something Vista can’t do well. It will be interesting to see what happens in regard to this.
As for compatibility I think virtual machines will play a big roll going forward. In that way Microsoft can provide compatibility without the need to build backwards compatibility into Windows.
That’s a good point. Maybe Microsoft will find a way to run apps in their free Virtual PC, but making them feel like they are running on the host operating system. Kind of like Parallels is able to do for Macs. That way people could run their old applications without feeling like they are using a virtual machine.
Hey I have Windows Vista and have had no problems with it at all. I am currently testing windows 7 beta and I like it. Its faster than vista I think. has bugs but everything new in process has bugs. so dont diss win 7 or win vista. personally i like vista better than XP. i’ve had more issues with xp than vista…
I have been running 7 for two months now, a registered version at that. Let me tell you it BLOWS Vista away. It starts up fully loaded in like 8-10 seconds! Im gonna love it! Plus, all of the issues with networking seem to be resolved.