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NEW UI?

or Virtualisation!

I'm guessing the inclusion of SoftGrid in Win7.

I'm guessing the ability to fry iPods over USB.

Announcement #1: VisiCalc *is* compatible with Win7!

Announcement #2: Morro (MS' free antivirus) will be out with Win7

Announcement #3: All those ancient MMC icons are finally replaced with new ones

(#2 is my actual guess)

rkpatrick

Just as an FYI, I've actually run VisiCalc in Windows 7. And, yes, it works fine.

free windows 7 upgrades for vista users

serious response, the visualization of XP inside windows 7 for backward compatibility? ala Rosetta?

@meason

That would be announcement.

@meason.

That would be an announcement, that is.

Meason: That's what SoftGrid does - app virtualization.

mikegalos: I suspected as much given that it's MS' favorite compatibility demo, but do find it amusing that it's always made to be such a big deal.

Now the big question is what are YOU doing running VisiCalc?

$89.95

That would be a nice announcement.

But my money is on something to do with virtualization.

SoftGird client must be #1 - which opens the door for some easy client install scenarios over the internet.

I would also bet MS still has some touch based announcements up its sleave.  

There's a great ch9 video about softgrid.

I'm with rkpatrick - I think it'll be Morro.

Of course I'd love a free upgrade for my Vista Ultimate machine...

rkpatrick,

Actually, I was curious to see if I still remembered enough of the commands to actually work with VisiCalc since It's been 28 years since I worked with it.

I know!

Ultimate Extras are back!!

         ;-)

App V in Windows 7 would only be a Major Announcement for corporate users and only some at that.

Free Upgrade for Vista users = Major Announcement but only for non-software insurance users of Vista, home users etc.  Our Enterprise agreement gives us Vista and will give us 7 since it runs out in the fall of 2010.  Perhaps we will use more 7 than we did Vista, which would be 2 or more copies of 7:)

There will be two more versions of 7.

Or no, the meaning/versions of Pro and Ultimate will be switched.

Lindy: "App V in Windows 7 would only be a Major Announcement for corporate users and only some at that."

I think universal application backwards compatibility would be a very big deal for all users, not just "some corporate users". For example, I had to setup Virtual PC on my wife's Vista box just so she can run one critical application in Windows XP that refuses to run in Vista. I know of several other home users that have stuck with XP for similar reasons - application and/or hardware driver incompatibilities with Vista. If Windows 7 was able to remove these issues as a roadblock to the migration away from Windows XP then I would call that a very major announcement.

bettieblu: What Microsoft should have done on April 1st is announced that they were switching the roles of Ultimate and Starter - and then announced the Starter Extras!

So (one of) the "big announcements" is virtualization? I mean, that's what I got from the PC Pro article (after reading some of the comments here on the SS blog). Well, I don't know how that'll benefit me, at least not know, so I hope there are other "big announcements" that I can be excited about :-)

C'mon Thurrott, spill it!

I don't think it's a final release date, as guessed by the Information Week article, since most people think 7 will come out later this year.

I have to say, I don't know what Paul has been hinting about. I did no get virtualization from any of his articles.

I dunno.... morro comes to light? (antivirus/spyware free for windows).  Given that the article hints at incompatible software that goes deep into the os.

It would be compelling to let the rest of the world know that windows 7 comes with free antivirus/spyware protection.

An upgrade path from Windows XP to 7 ??

@kenmcnamee I wont say it wont help at all, but lets be honest.  How many Joe computer users are going to know what that is?  They will know a free upgrade from Vista.

I know from personal experience all to well that Vista had app compatibility problems.  I had to replace half a dozen apps (upgrade them) because they did not work right and the app vendors wanted to screw me out of money instead of providing a free patch.  At the time Quicken 2005, Photoshop elements, Nero, Power DVD, and a few others worked fine with XP but not with Vista.

However that was 12/06 - 1/07, now most apps or 99% are finally compatible.  Its the corporate apps, home grown stuff that will break more.  Or corporations not seeing the need to spend $$$$$$ on say VPN software that currently does not work with Vista, plus upgrading to Vista.  Or its in a corporate environment where some department might use a app that ties into say Outlook 2003 for sales contact management or whatever, but you want to upgrade everyone to Office 2007 so app V would help that other department run both.

I'm betting it'll be a free "upgrade".

Sweet.

"serious response, the visualization [sic] of XP inside windows 7 for backward compatibility? ala Rosetta?"

You betcha. Assuming you're talking about "virtualization" ;-)

"I did no [sic] get virtualization from any of his articles."

Then you haven't been paying attention.

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Lindy: "How many Joe computer users are going to know what that is?"

It depends completely on how Microsoft markets the SoftGrid feature. If they say "Windows 7 - now with application virtualization compatibility" then I agree that Joe Computer User will not care one iota. However, if Microsoft says "Windows 7 - all of your old applications will work, 100% guaranteed" then Joe Computer User will see that as a major benefit. They won't need to worry about whether the new computer they want to purchase with Windows 7 will run their 8 year old Broderbund PrintCrap 2000 or Where in the Hell is Carmen Boca del Vista.

You'd be amazed how many people - especially the Joe Computer Users - are still running the same versions of the software they bought back in the Win98/XP days. I'd say that the majority of ordinary, non-technical computer users have at least one piece of old software they would like to use but can't because it won't run correctly or at all on Vista. There's simply a huge amount of abandonware out there that hasn't seen a new version since 2005 and probably never will.

Yeah I would agree, lots of average users with XP machines, 512megs of RAM, Office 2000, Half Life, and Print Crap Magic Deluxe 2000:)

They wont even know Windows 7 came out.

I am hoping for a new UI.

Honestly App V would not be a "Major Announcement" for most.

Free upgrade, single version or something like that would be a big deal.  Huge in the IT press world.

There will be a version of Windows 7 depending on your age. So in the store you'll see boxes of Windows 7 with the box clearly market "For age 27". "For age 28". They will then check your ID to confirm your age and that you have purchased the correct version.

Microsoft - making things easier. (not) (tm)

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"There will be a version of Windows 7 depending on your age. So in the store you'll see boxes of Windows 7 with the box clearly market "For age 27". "For age 28". They will then check your ID to confirm your age and that you have purchased the correct version."

That's awesome! Maybe they'll have a version for 13 year olds that you can use, robertsjoe.

Oh, come on. You made that way too easy!

Shark

And you're being much too kind...

Mike are you allowed to comment on this blog?  Are you officially representing Microsoft?

I doubt it is Softgrid that some have mentioned here...thats too much of an enterprise solution.

We haven't heard much about "morro" security so maybe thats one announcement.

maybe..virtualization

maybe..partners implementing touch

maybe..upgrade path for vista users

really..it could be anything.

It would be great if it was something like:

You start with a base OS for $99, then choose the features you want, each adding some smallish amount to the total cost.  That way you can build either Home Basic, or Ultimate, or Business, or whatever else you'd like depending on what your needs are.

The reason is because I have Vista Home Premium, and when I got Home Server, I really wanted to use the remote desktop feature. Say, if I go on vacation,  I'll be able to wake my computer remotely and use it remotely.  But in order to do that, I'd need to pay $160 to upgrade to a version of Vista that has RD.  I don't think so.  Now if it cost me $30 to add just that one feature after the fact, I'd be there in a sec.

I've been hearing in rumors that Microsoft was prepping something specifically as a direct answer to SnowLeopard. I guess we'll have to wait and see.

I hope they will announce something extra special for the Vista Ultimate owners. Customers who were conned by MS..

@lotsamystuff: I'm not sure if it's that I haven't been paying attention but more like I don't see virtualization being something that I would use (at least not now), so it probably just blew over my head.

Or maybe I didn't read the article where Paul hinted virtualization. The Supersite for Windows is my favorite Windows news site but I don't read all the articles, say, for example, when Paul talks about Windows Home Server. I don't have one, nor I see myself buying one, so I skip those reviews/articles.

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Application virtualization would be real nice touch - but I do think that it will be something much smaller, but more common to "plain people".

Integrated antivirus/antispyware fits that category very nicely.

On the other hand, article says "couple announcements" so it could be both really ;)

Than again, article clearly mentions 3rd party or at least very separate MS solutions that cover both of those areas, so why mention that 8 other antivirus solutions work eprfectly with Win7 if you're going to announce your own? Or why educate enterprise customers about using virtualization, if you're going to build it into Win7 and make it "invisible" and average-joe-easy to setup.

This kinda goes against most comments here, including my own thoughts before reading PCPro article completely :D

Fun answer? Maybe they'll allow DX11 physx API for Desktop, so you can throw around icons on desktop, and they would bounce off the screen borders and other icons realisticly.. and it would work on CPU, and GPUs from both nvidia and ATI :D

"Texas bans Microsoft Vista from Government Use"

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What a wonderful endorsement of Windows.

"Oh, come on. You made that way too easy!"

And that was the best you could come up with? I guess that over the years, your best was never good enough.

Microsoft still creating dodgy ads.

www.appleinsider.com/.../microsofts_lauren_ad_faked_say_bloggers.html

Microsoft, fake, contrived marketing has been going on for years.

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hmmm... maybe they are skipping the RC and going straight to RTM :)

Hopefully this is something useful feature-wise rather than something 'special' about release dates etc.

If it gives Win7 its killer feature etc. then it may be worth buying

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like Game Folder

"And that was the best you could come up with? I guess that over the years, your best was never good enough."

OK? Are you not even 13 then? Whoa! Concentrate on school, dude. This tech stuff isn't going anywhere. Trolling Windows sites isn't going to get you a job with Apple when you grow up. Someone seems to have misled you.

Oh, these kids. They believe everything they hear.

What if one of Microsoft's announcement's is the virtualization of OS-X in Windows 7? Just a thought.

Snake

There's never been any question of where I'm "allowed" to post. It's just a personal choice to avoid intentional "confusion" by the less intellectually gifted members here.

Do you really think that Microsoft Corporation has an official stance on how old robertsjoe is?

And, for the record, I have no idea what announcements Laurence Painell had in mind.

Let the defensive whininess begin: www.microsoft.com/.../default.aspx

And this time you're not even having to pick on a girl...

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