Windows 7 Alpha Debuting Tonight

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer will tonight unveil the first official news about Window's Vista's Successor - Windows 7 - at the WSJ All Things Digital Conference.

Wow. And yeah i meant Window's 7!

I like Vista x64 Ultimate. I did load up the workstation with server level hardware. I hope WinFS is fixed. It could improve my SAS RAID even more.

Windows 7 will be a tweaked Vista kernel. You will see many of them hate it even worse. They should start upgrading hardware to better levels to support the OS. Replace older motherboards with a Vista ready board. Add 4GB-8GB for 64-bit OS. Find a board with Vista capable SATA drivers. Cheap old hardware will not work well. Many want to overclock and 64-bit does not handle it well. They want to upgrade from XP to Vista. I recommend a backup and clean install.

I made my choices and installed in 18 minutes. Supermicro's beta BIOS took out the BIOS chip. I hope to have the replacement today and get back up and running. No hardware issues. It even had both printer drivers.

I enjoyed testing both XP and Vista over the years.... Also Office 2007...
Hopefully, get to test the new version at some point when it becomes available...

Just my 2 cents...........

I don't beta test Microsoft products any more. I did not get good support on drivers for my hardware.

The hardcore miniorty who are completely twitterpated about Vista will be just as freaked about 7, whenever it sees the light of day.

I don't much hardcore on this forum....

I think many need hardware upgrades to run Vista x64 Ultimate.

Vista x64 Ultimate was more bad hype than bad features. I was expecting more issues with Vista. It was a 18 minute install for x64 Ultimate. Everything has worked good. I wish I could get more multi-threading apps to feed my workstation.

History: The Longhorn name wasn't chosen randomly.
Windows XP was code-named Whistler and the next version of Windows, at the time, was code-named Blackcomb.
Both of these names come from ski areas in British Columbia, close to Microsoft's headquarters. At the foot of Whistler Mountain, there is a saloon named Longhorn that serves the local skiing population.
So if you're ever in the area and want to take in some local color, Longhorn is a nice stop… after you're done with Whistler.

Innovation will come from the OS. Hardware innovations need to be placed into OS and software to function. Look at how the paging file has changed from just virtual RAM to having a dedicated function for caching, memory dumps, and other functions. You need innovation to come from all three: OS, software and hardware.

In 25 years, I have always upgraded hardware and software to clean install a new OS. No reason to complain about these users. They are the majority of users with computers. Vista can work on lower end computers if they don't expect much.

Window's 7 is going to be such an interesting development for Microsoft, and for users. I'm still not too sure about touch stuff - I'd get wrist ache! and dragging photos with a mouse is just as quick as with a finger. But i love the developments so far... it's just a shame there isn't much more information out there yet!

I think refining Vista and building on it for W7 is a good idea - Vista isn't bad at all, it's just not as mature as people were expecting.

During the next few years when the code matures I hope there will be more new things to play with, I got bored with most of the new Vista utilities within a month