The researchers damn Windows in current form, urge radical changes. Calling the situation “untenable” and describing Windows as “collapsing,” a pair of Gartner analysts this week said Microsoft must make radical changes to the operating system or risk becoming a has-been. In a presentation at a Gartner-sponsored conference in Las Vegas, analysts Michael Silver and [...]
A recently-released roadmap for the next major Window release – Windows 7 – indicates that Microsoft is planning to release the new operating system in the second half of 2009, rather than the anticipated release date of some time in 2010. There are apparently three “milestone” builds planned for 2008, and the first one – [...]
According to Computer World Microsoft has 200 programmers working on slimming down the Windows kernel for the next version of the operating system. This was revealed by a company engineer in a presentation last weekend at the University of Illinois. “A lot of people think of Windows as this really large, bloated operating system, and [...]
According to News.com, Microsoft is planning to ship the next major version of Windows within roughly three years compared to the more than five years for Windows Vista. It is also to be known internally as Windows 7 from its previous code name of Vienna. Sources close to the company says that the company discussed [...]
