Vista - No Windows 7 In 2009?

"The guessing game is on again. Microsoft is tight lipped about the Windows 7 release schedule which is the main reason why so many different Windows 7 release dates are floating around on the Internet. Depending on the website that you visit you find release dates for Windows 7 that range from the second quarter of 2009 to the fourth quarter of 2010. That’s more than 18 months of difference." -Windows 7 news

More here: No Windows 7 In 2009? | Windows 7 News

~Lordbob

It has always been predicted to be released somewhere in 2010.

Thanks for the Heads-Up!! Lordbob~

I have been aware of Windows 7 progress and or lack thereof. This puts the Icing

on the Cake. IMO. However, the WEB is full of misleading Info, so, I wait, and wait.

I don't mess around with Beta anything. Been there, done that. Don't care for it.

I'm very Pleased with VISTA, actually, though IMO again, I think it was ahead of

it's time. That and PC Peripheral Manufacturers, did not write Drivers for their stuff.

Forcing folks to Buy new Stuff, at times, depending on where your at in the PC

Knowledge game. Take Creative Labs for example, they purposely did not write

Vista drivers for their Sound cards, so we had to buy a new Vista ready card,

though they certainly could have. If fact an Individual, did so Himself so he could

use his perfectly GOOD sound Card on Vista. Creative Labs threatened to sue him,

and that was that. No Vista drivers for cards that could have worked just fine had

they wrote them. Simple Scam to get folks to BUY new hardware, nothing more.

Sad, but true.

Anyhow Good read.

Blue

As far as Creative sound cards the old Audigy series "did see" Vista drivers available while Vista was still in the RC stages seeing those in beta form until Vista's release on 1/31/07. The first was the 12/06/06 dated driver set for Vista.

In fact the autoupdater when later seeing a newer model on a new build at the time saw Vista drivers automatically downloaded and installed on XP! That was the July 2007 update found in the XP section until Creative corrected something on their support there.

The product availability chart lists the older models along with the X-Fi series at their support site lists the following seen at Creative Worldwide Support

WOW, Night Hawk~

I haven't followed the whole Creative Labs thing in a long time, Thanks!!

Gee now I could install my Audigy Sound Blaster 5.1 EAX Gamer Edition sound card,

though Honestly my on-board Realtek works Awesome!! What about Turtle Beach

cards? Same thing there? I have one of those as well, and a box of older

Sound Cards. For folks that I run into and work on their PC. Some still run

some old hardware, whoa!! Lots of folks just use there machines to email and stuff,

nothing demanding GFX wise, etc. and are perfectly happy with it.

Myself I have to have a Good GFX card for Gaming, and a nice CPU, RAM etc.

Again Thanks for the Heads up!!

Blue

The 12/06/2006 driver set seen at the time was actually the first finished driver set available for Vista preparing for it's release at the time. I used those for the RC1 then over any beta drivers. Some older models of course being too old were omitted as you will see there.

If you look now you'll easily find beta drivers for 7. Surprizingly Creative is usually ahead of the game over NVidia and ATI both for being the first seeing drivers available for an upcoming new version. At seeing those I wouldn't see why 7 won't be seeing a 2009 time frame if not early 2010.

A look at the 7 availability chart should also be encouraging since that list goes back to the Audigy 2 series there. Creative Worldwide Support

Night Hawk~

Well so much for using my Audigy card with Win 7.? Does Creative support Vista 64

bit as well or merely 32 bit? I should just go look. Myself

Though as earlier stated my Realtek ROX. Azalia Codec. 2.1 to 7.1.

Also as far as Win 7 goes I'll wait until Service Pack 1 is release before I Bite.

Thanks for the help, I kicked you a Rep point. and Lordbob.

Blue

Sound is heard on 64bit 7 beta here. The only thing lacking is the application side for sound mixer, volume control, and speaker settings for both 32bit and 64bit as far as 7 is concerned at the moment. That's simply due to the next version still being in development.

For 7 here I simply downloaded the Vista 64bit updates for both rather then only the beta sound drivers without application. Creative Worldwide Support

The sight of beta drivers for 7 shows Creative is upto something knowing that 7 will out soon as long as there aren't any more delays like seen with a few inbetween the 7000 and 7022 builds not upto expectations. We wouildn't want another Lohn Horn II situation for sure.

Following the MS delevelopers blogs and not getting wound up by so called articles is the best way to get an idea of how far along they are. The annoucements made by Microsoft directly are the reliable answers over the 3rd party hype to fill blog space.

I don't Bite until the fat Lagy Sings!! Night Hawk!!

When it's here and and SP1, I'll be interested, (WIN7) funny I used to own

a Night Hawk Motorcycle, Kick A$$ Bike, BTW!! Loved it. I think I'll be sticking to on

board sound in the future as well, it's come a Long, Long way. I recall the Daze it

Really sucked, but today it's as Good or better than any Audigy SC. IMO.

Case in point, The abit NF7-S v2 MoBo's had Sound Storm, sound on board, it was

the first I had heard that really sounded Great!!

Blue

Thanks for the links and such.

That article is utter rubbish, Windows 7 will hit RTM some time between July and Sept 09