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Grant Gochnauer sends in a link to the istartedsomething blog where a commenter, rumored to be an insider from Microsoft, left a comment that equates to an essay covering the development, design, features and strategy all coming in Windows 7.
We’ll try and highlight the juicy parts below, but if you love this stuff, you are welcome to read the entire beast at the link above.
- First off, the commenter confirms that the mysterious Neowin “review” from the M1 build posted to the forums, was real (Read cached version)
- Windows 7 is developed by 2 teams: WEX (or Windows Experience) team, which has primary responsibility for client releases as well as most user-focused features, and COSD (Core Operating System Division.
- Windows 7 will ship with extensive “Windows Live” hooks. Windows Live represents all the communication and online services from Microsoft. Expect to see a Windows + Windows Live killer bundle. Other services, like Yahoo, can integrate as deeply as long as they use the Windows Live service hooks as well.
- NOTE: I would expect Windows 7 + Messenger + Mobile + XBox 360 + Media (Zune) is going to be compellingly integrated in Windows 7… sorta like Mac, but more extensive.
- Steven Sinofsky, the new manager of the COSD team believes in incremental release. No more big-bang releases that collapse under their own weight. The Windows 7 team is already collecting ideas for Windows 8 as they work on 7. Expect Microsoft to start churning out OS releases exactly like Apple. Every couple of years, and a few hundred dollars a pop. (Except Apple kept a sane pricing scheme and didn’t go retarded on the version names like Vista did).
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January 24th, 2008 at 12:53 pm
um i think they forgot to mention the DX11 exclusive and not backwards compatible with Vista or XP and all sort o that last minute crap.
NT > win 2000 > win XP (those were incremental releases… um)
so after Vista 9 we will see win ME III ?
i wonder how well they will be able to compete with MacOS Jaguar (or whatever feline) and Ubuntu 9.10…. oh yea i forgot their other competitors: Windows XP SP4 and vista sp2
they are really afraid of the competition this time. Things won’t be easy for them never again.
January 24th, 2008 at 3:50 pm
So, is there any reason at all to believe the early specs of the new OS will be anywhere near the final product?
January 24th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
tdod,
I’d think they are in the ballpark… Microsoft moves so slowly, that a year time frame is how long it takes just for testing and refining… so if they are looking at a Q209 release, whatever they have in now, and finished by Summer is likely “it”.
The rest is translation into 40 languages, UI/Message review by their internationalization teams, bug fixes, OEM testing, etc. etc.
January 24th, 2008 at 5:17 pm
True, but I seem to recall how certain specific features of Vista were discussed well before it was ever released, only for Vista to be delayed and have certain features cut. So, all I am saying is that it is not inconceivable for Microsoft to again pull such a stunt.
January 25th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
@tdod
as i recall they have been doing just that since win ME. They start with a lot of buzz, than it turns out way different