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Could Microsoft be sticking to its initial release date for Windows 7? A beta release for public testing will be released tomorrow (Friday 9 January 2009) and if testing goes smoothly we might see Windows 7 ship out of production facilities in a matter of months instead of waiting another year. Microsoft recently announced that they aim to keep Windows 7 within the resource requirement bracket Windows Vista was billed as having even though it was barely unusable at those specifications as most early adopters found out to their dismay.
The minimum requirements would be a 1 GHz processor with 1GB RAM and 16GB hard drive space available. Requirements might go up slightly as development continues, but only slightly if it does happen at all. Windows 7 will also be available for netbooks according to Microsoft. They view it, as a strategic “must do” for Windows 7 in terms of platform capability. I doubt the standard version will run on a netbook come 2010 so it must be a “light” version of Windows 7. Maybe Microsoft should get the folks in who hacked apart Windows XP to create Tiny XP and Micro XP. They might learn a thing or two about how to keep the power and lose the bulk.
Either way, many people are eagerly awaiting Windows 7 expecting it to be the true follow up to Windows XP seeing as Vista was to XP what Windows ME was to Windows 98. I myself hailed Windows Vista as something workable if Microsoft sorted the bugs. You can go and find that blog post. Instead of sticking to Vista, Microsoft instead opted to go Windows 7 instead which is in fact a restructuring and hopefully betterment on Windows Vista using most of the design and functionality elements dreamed up for Vista and making them streamlined.
Maybe future tertiary education handbooks will contain dud OS’s as part of the product development cycle for commercial operating system manufacturers. Maybe there is a psychological element to it all. Who knows, perhaps the design and development department at the OS division at Microsoft was so shocked at the news that Bill Gates was leaving that they did a shoddy job with Windows Vista. Either way, they seem more determined now. The beta is already available for subsribers of MSDN and Technet with copies floating about online already, but tomorrow it will be open to anybody to try. Exciting start to 2009!
The minimum requirements would be a 1 GHz processor with 1GB RAM and 16GB hard drive space available. Requirements might go up slightly as development continues, but only slightly if it does happen at all. Windows 7 will also be available for netbooks according to Microsoft. They view it, as a strategic “must do” for Windows 7 in terms of platform capability. I doubt the standard version will run on a netbook come 2010 so it must be a “light” version of Windows 7. Maybe Microsoft should get the folks in who hacked apart Windows XP to create Tiny XP and Micro XP. They might learn a thing or two about how to keep the power and lose the bulk.
Either way, many people are eagerly awaiting Windows 7 expecting it to be the true follow up to Windows XP seeing as Vista was to XP what Windows ME was to Windows 98. I myself hailed Windows Vista as something workable if Microsoft sorted the bugs. You can go and find that blog post. Instead of sticking to Vista, Microsoft instead opted to go Windows 7 instead which is in fact a restructuring and hopefully betterment on Windows Vista using most of the design and functionality elements dreamed up for Vista and making them streamlined.
Maybe future tertiary education handbooks will contain dud OS’s as part of the product development cycle for commercial operating system manufacturers. Maybe there is a psychological element to it all. Who knows, perhaps the design and development department at the OS division at Microsoft was so shocked at the news that Bill Gates was leaving that they did a shoddy job with Windows Vista. Either way, they seem more determined now. The beta is already available for subsribers of MSDN and Technet with copies floating about online already, but tomorrow it will be open to anybody to try. Exciting start to 2009!