News - Windows 8 slides leak

[12GaugeShotty]

Yeah I know. It's silly isn't it. MS should just ride the wave of WIndows 7 based popularity for the next 3 years and then when they suddenly realise the competition has them licked react in a panic and throw together a newer version in the next couple of months.

FYI, Windows 7 was planned not long after Windows XP was released. Winsows XP was released less than 2 years after Windows 2000 and Windows ME. Why do people keep saying this just because VIsta took so long? Vista is the odd one out, not all of the other versions of Windows.

Vista wasn't the odd one out. It is well known that Vista was delayed because Microsoft put their development teams onto the Windows XP SP2 project. So Windows XP SP2 delayed the release of Windows Vista. No other reason. It wasn't because Windows XP was perfect and there wasn't a need for a new OS. It was because Windows XP is full of major flaws that Microsoft had to make a priority to address first.

[dangel]

Vista wasn't the odd one out.

Erm, yes it was - it took far longer to arrive than planned. His point was that people seem to think that 5 years is the norm and MS aim to deliver on a 3 year cycle (of course earlier is possible too, but this is their roadmap plan).

It is well known that Vista was delayed because Microsoft put their development teams onto the Windows XP SP2 project. So Windows XP SP2 delayed the release of Windows Vista. No other reason. It wasn't because Windows XP was perfect and there wasn't a need for a new OS. It was because Windows XP is full of major flaws that Microsoft had to make a priority to address first.

The widely held view was that the longhorn project was originally scheduled to be a further interation of the XP codebase. About halfway through the project they released it was unmaintainable and needed a heavy re-write, with a reduced feature set. MS have thousands of developers (literally), all working on different projects.

[andrep]

I run a quad core processor, and I've got to say that Win 7 locks up so much less than Vista. Also, the bluetooth drivers in Win 7 work just so much better than in Vista, if that's of interest.