First review of Windows 7 ??

creditcard wrote:

This sudden spurt of interest in Windows 7 by people here is pretty interesting. I wonder if this will invoke a reaction from Microsoft, as many "out-of-control" topics tend to do here on Channel9. See Dreamscene for example, it almost seemed like it was released as a reaction to a couple of long threads about it. So maybe Microsoft will release some info on Windows 7.

Harlequin wrote:

I can't stand when they annouce the next version of something is going along smooth, and SP1 of the previous version isn't even out yet.

I'm still waiting for SP1 so I can buy Vista.

2009 for Windows 7? Please. Figured they would have learned by now not to set dates so early on. I don't see this coming out until 2010 or 2011. At the very least is should come out in 2010 or 2011. Put releases to close together people get pissed off, like the Windows ME money grab Win2K scare nightmare.

PaoloM wrote:



creditcard wrote: This sudden spurt of interest in Windows 7 by people here is pretty interesting. I wonder if this will invoke a reaction from Microsoft, as many "out-of-control" topics tend to do here on Channel9. See Dreamscene for example, it almost seemed like it was released as a reaction to a couple of long threads about it. So maybe Microsoft will release some info on Windows 7.

When it's time. Not now.

And there won't be any reaction, it's all nicely planned

Cybermagellan wrote:



PaoloM wrote:  creditcard wrote: This sudden spurt of interest in Windows 7 by people here is pretty interesting. I wonder if this will invoke a reaction from Microsoft, as many "out-of-control" topics tend to do here on Channel9. See Dreamscene for example, it almost seemed like it was released as a reaction to a couple of long threads about it. So maybe Microsoft will release some info on Windows 7. When it's time. Not now. And there won't be any reaction, it's all nicely planned

Eh....as an evagelism site Channel9 SHOULD be the first place where interviews and leaks SHOULD come from....having said that internal employees are leaking, etc and Microsoft declares it as "OK"...Jamie has had this thought before...C9 users "In theory" depending on I would say influence/fields should be picked for Microsoft's Betas....who knows though.

PaoloM wrote:



Cybermagellan wrote:  PaoloM wrote:  creditcard wrote: This sudden spurt of interest in Windows 7 by people here is pretty interesting. I wonder if this will invoke a reaction from Microsoft, as many "out-of-control" topics tend to do here on Channel9. See Dreamscene for example, it almost seemed like it was released as a reaction to a couple of long threads about it. So maybe Microsoft will release some info on Windows 7. When it's time. Not now. And there won't be any reaction, it's all nicely planned Eh....as an evagelism site Channel9 SHOULD be the first place where interviews and leaks SHOULD come from....having said that internal employees are leaking, etc and Microsoft declares it as "OK"...Jamie has had this thought before...C9 users "In theory" depending on I would say influence/fields should be picked for Microsoft's Betas....who knows though.

Could you rephrase that in English, please?

Cybermagellan wrote:



PaoloM wrote:  Cybermagellan wrote:  PaoloM wrote:  creditcard wrote: This sudden spurt of interest in Windows 7 by people here is pretty interesting. I wonder if this will invoke a reaction from Microsoft, as many "out-of-control" topics tend to do here on Channel9. See Dreamscene for example, it almost seemed like it was released as a reaction to a couple of long threads about it. So maybe Microsoft will release some info on Windows 7. When it's time. Not now. And there won't be any reaction, it's all nicely planned Eh....as an evagelism site Channel9 SHOULD be the first place where interviews and leaks SHOULD come from....having said that internal employees are leaking, etc and Microsoft declares it as "OK"...Jamie has had this thought before...C9 users "In theory" depending on I would say influence/fields should be picked for Microsoft's Betas....who knows though. Could you rephrase that in English, please?

Talk more openly to US about upcoming products (namely Windows 7).

PaoloM wrote:


When it's time. Not now.

Cybermagellan wrote:



PaoloM wrote:  When it's time. Not now.

Yes because we see how well that worked out with Vista....

Cybermagellan wrote:

Trust me I understand...really I do where you're coming from...just don't like it...it's not your fault, it's a company fault.

Cybermagellan wrote:



PaoloM wrote:  When it's time. Not now.

Yes because we see how well that worked out with Vista....

*Exclusive*  The new Windows 7 WPF Calculator!

Before ANYONE goes any further:

Do not believe everything you read on the internet.

That was a Public Service Announcement

creditcard wrote:

But no really, I would be quite disappointed if the entire Windows 7 UI wasn't pretty much rewritten in WPF.

Bas wrote:



Sven Groot wrote:  Bas wrote:  littleguru wrote: And a notepad with multiple undos That would be nice... could be part of the standard text box - i wonder how much more resources that would take That would be incredible. If they could also change the way you input special characters like é, ö, and ñ to the way it works in Word, only system-wide, then I'll send a singing love-telegram to whoever is responsible. What's wrong with dead keys, that works system wide?

The fact that, to me, the 'wrong' behaviour is the default. I want to write a quote more often than an apostrophe or umlaut, but if I type "e, it'll turn into ë.
I have to type a space after the " if I actually want a " character, which makes no sense to me.

In Word, if you want to type "e, you can actually just type "e. If you want ë, you have to type Ctrl+" followed by E. It makes more sense to me: the accents are the exception, while quotes and apostrophes are the norm. So if you want the exception, you need a special key combination.

The US International keyboard layout requires a special key combination if you just want the norm (a quote), while it gives you the exception (an umlaut) by default.

esoteric wrote:

As to WPF/E, aka Avalon...

PaoloM wrote:



esoteric wrote: As to WPF/E, aka Avalon...

WPF = Avalon
WPF/E = Silverlight

That's a cheap shot creditcard, and to my knowledge the calculator was written from scratch, providing better accuracy, for example. As to WPF, aka Avalon, imagine the calculations taking place to render that 3D text inside those buttons in W7.

Also, for maximum effect, as many applications as possible should use the scene graph - it'll make RDC more efficient, right!? If the only bitmap in the scene is the background image on the desktop, the RDC may start to become a bit more interesting (well, there could be other WPF bitmaps, but for purity, let's assume not ...

I'm sure there'll be much cooler scene graph architechtures in the future, but for the scene graph approach is really beautiful (the "declarative desktop" and "less is more", as stupid as it sounds).

intelman wrote:

I can't wait for the next beta of Windows to start...