Windows 7

[Chalenge]

I have been trying to learn more about the changes MS plans for future versions of Windows. It doesnt look like AHII will run at all on Win7 (without changes that is) even though I hope it will! I hope Skuzzy will speak up on that and that I am just confused in what I have read. MS has decided to make Win7 without the backward compatibility of previous windows versions? While Win7 sounds great some of the decisions being made in its creation are going to make life painful at some point.

Read about it here:

http://windows7news.com/2008/05/23/windows-7-to-break-backwards-compatibility/

[Fender16]

I thought Vista was supposed to be the last OS Microsoft released and it would just have multiple updates?

[Spatula]

saw this today as well:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10048142-56.html

[MrRiplEy[H]]

When MS loses backwards compatibility it loses its main advantage over competition. Now would be a good time to start coding for mac/linux.

[SD67]

Please do linux 
I've never owned a mac in my life!

[Fulmar]

There were some videos leaked of windows 7 I found on slashdot, but the site is bogged down from traffic.  But so far the interface is similar to Vista.  Let's just hope it doesn't end up that way or I'll be hanging onto XP like some guys hang onto Win2K

[Max]

I'm holding out until the release of Mojave 

[Fulmar]

I'm holding out until the release of Mojave 

LOL

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Outside the collective insanity of some ent[H]usiast sites I haven't met anyone who would have liked or wanted to use Vista so far.

[Denholm]

...Let's just hope it doesn't end up that way or I'll be hanging onto XP like some guys hang onto Win2K

What can I say? If it works and I like it, I'll keep it.

[Krusty]

Whatever it's named, it's being rushed. They KNOW that Vista bombed. What they're doing is making some cosmetic changes, getting rid of a bit of the fat (and HOPEFULLY killing all that DRM paranoid crap out entirely!), but it'll be 90% Vista. It will be remarketed and repackaged and an entirely new advertising campaign will be run, but let's be honest. They spend BILLIONS on Vista and need a replacement fast? They're going to tweak Vista and push it out under a new name.


Don't have high expectations for what is coming next. It may be better than Vista, but it may not.

[Anaxogoras]

When MS loses backwards compatibility it loses its main advantage over competition. Now would be a good time to start coding for mac/linux.

If AH ran on a Mac I would buy one.

[Denholm]

Not a big Mac fan. Linux sounds more luxurious.

[Speed55]

"This won’t mean that older programs won’t run, but that virtualisation will be used to make them run. The key drivers for this are performance improvements, but also in an attempt to sidestep regulatory programs." - from article

Don't know what that means, but from what the rest of the article says, it's supposed to make things faster.

Also, according to the article postd by spatula, it looks like they're dropping programs like paint, and movie maker from the os installation, but you will still be able to download them from the microsoft website for free if you want them.

I'll keep xp as long as possible, but windows 7 looks like it's going to be a huge improvement over vista, more like xp but with even less in the initial install, which will make it run faster, but we'll see.

[Spatula]

would have thought the easiest way to make it faster would be to ditch all the super paranoid DRM rubbish.