Windows 7 details to be released in October

bledd. said:
please ms, selectable components during install..
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Would be nice but can't see it happening. Part of the point of Windows is that it just works for all the millions of people who don't know about computers; you just know that, even if MS hid these options during the installation, a load of fools would still find them and wipe half their drivers or something.
 
^ It is nice and it is happening. That's one of the corner stone features of Windows 7. Modularity.

Look at Server 2008 to get an idea of where things are heading.
 
also, oem resellers should definitely send out windows discs

i have nightmares about making fake oem discs using a xp home oem cd mixed with oembios files and backed up activation files when fixing people's home machines


it's tempting to just install a cracked version a lot of the time.


also, @ manic111if any files are needed it should prompt for the windows disc :)

and they should drop the 32bit os (obviously keep 32bit app compatability), hopefully this will be an improved vista, and not a bloated vista
 
when going round to a normal person's house to fix their machine is where it bites me in the butt

i could do with just trying to get hold of all the major oem's discs i guess, can you just call them up?
 
bledd. said:
also, @ manic111if any files are needed it should prompt for the windows disc :)

and they should drop the 32bit os (obviously keep 32bit app compatability), hopefully this will be an improved vista, and not a bloated vista
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Microsoft is really going to town with modularity now. They see it as a case of "succeed or die". Windows Vista is a great OS but it has pitfalls which prevent Microsoft entering new markets with it.

Apple's OSX for instance was able to shrunk down to fit on an iPhone. Microsoft wants the same flexibility with Windows. That at any given time a new market might open up and Windows will be able to be the solution.

Micorosft's Media Center was such a burden on development resources pre-Vista that they decided to simply roll it into Vista as an application. Microsoft has a major phobia currently of starting new Windows SKUs because of all the maintenance overheads. They aim to change that with Windows 7.

If Vista was modular it would be able to be the OS of those EeePC's. Whereas XP is currently the only option Microsoft has to give because Vista was too focused on supporting high-end PC's only. That's why Microsoft tried to kill off the EeePC (as well as Intel)... because basically they realised they weren't agile enough to provide a solution. Intel decided to do something about it by coming up with the "Atom" CPU. And very soon Microsoft will have their solution in place as well with Windows 7.

When you think about it (and Microsoft has done the same) you will see that some of the major problems or business failures Microsoft has had in the past decade were as a result of the inability to be "agile".



As you can see... OS modularity has far more reaching concerns than just "being able to tick boxes on the install program" ;)
 
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11
Windows for Workgroups
Windows 95
Windows NT
Windows 98
Windows XP
Windows Millenium Edition
Windows Vista
...etc...

Now back to Windows 7?


Weird. :D
 
Raist said:
Interesting. Never noticed version numbers like that before.
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run winver on whatever version of windows you're running and it will say.... :)

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So we can expect Windows 7 will have some strange name eventually as well?
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more than likely :p
 
That's the codename for now.

"7" or "seven" has traditionally been a favourite in corporate marketing departments. I bet it will make it onto the short list anyway.
 
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