A big issue is reworking backwards compatibility. It's important to keep it; people would flip out without it. Vista's method is to keep old Windows frameworks in libraries, and bring up the library as needed. This is pretty resource intensive. Windows 7 compiles this all into a Legacy Library, and can work from that, much more efficiently than Vista.
When will we get Windows 7? It was projected for 2010, but Bill Gates told investors that it would be around next year. Some analysts seem to have pretty low hopes for Windows 7, but I see this as moving from Windows ME to XP. Hopefully at least.
During all this I've been monitoring WSJ's All Things Digital conference via a liveblog from Engadget. It's been about 45 minutes now, and it's still pretty boring, they're just including semi-interesting clips from their conversations. It's just Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer reminiscing about old times. We're supposed to get a preview of Windows 7. Though, it gave me time to write everything up to this, so when they finally get to the preview, I have all this written. I'm watch Troy as I wait.
Good quote:
"Is Vista a failure? Is it a mistake?" Ballmer: "It's not a failure, it's not a mistake. Are there things we'll modify and improve going forward? Sure."
Gates is mum, smiling off into the distance.
Multitouch! Not surprising; they kind of had to include it, but it's still comforting to see them including it. Teamed up with the Microsoft Surface project. Real multitouch? Hopefully, since the Surface team is there. None of this iPhone multitouch. That's not multitouch, it's dualtouch. 2 isn't multi. You don't say a comic strip is drawn in multiple dimensions, or that you have multiple hands, you say 2!
Anyway, doesn't seem like too much of a preview. Once there's a video posted somewhere I'll link it here, and maybe write some more, but that's it for now.
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Photo: Flickr
Photo: Engadget
Godspeed.
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