“Microsoft Corp. co-founder Bill Gates said on Friday he expected the new version of Windows operating software, code-named Windows 7, to be released ‘sometime in the next year or so,'” Michael Christie reports for Reuters.
“Gates’ comments suggested that a successor to the Vista program might be released sooner than was generally expected,” Christie reports.
“Microsoft has said it expected to release a new version of Windows approximately 3 years after the introduction of Vista in January 2007. A company spokeswoman said Gates’ comments are in line with a development cycle that usually releases a test version of the software before its official introduction,” Christie reports.
“‘I’m superenthused about what it will do in lots of ways,’ Gates said,” Christie reports. “‘That’ll be sometime in the next year or so that we’ll have a new version,’ Gates said in response to a question from the audience.”
“He said new versions of Windows would help revolutionize mobile phones and run the desk of the future, which would have a touch surface display allowing users to call up items using their hands,” Christie reports.
Full article here.
Superenthused? Gee, oh, golly, oh, wow, Buddy, neato!
Bill Gates is to cool as Dracula is to dead.
Plus, he’s a functionally derivative liar who’s currently trying to buy his way into heaven with ill-gotten gains, thinks it’s still 1995, and who really ought to get busy checking into that darkened Vegas hotel room to start growing his fingernails to absurd lengths, thereby sparing us all the torture of having to listen to any more of his doddering nonsense.
“Microsoft figurehead Bill Gates sees next version of Windows ‘sometime in the next year or so’”
He saw a vision floating in his cereal this morning as he gently rocked himself into a trance with his eyes rolled back, a crooked grin and a warm, steady string of drool flowing into his lap.
In Microsoft speak, ‘or so’ translates into 2-6 years.
To anthony007:
Oops. Take the dash out between your 2 and 6.
This is the man we trust to cure Malaria.
What’s with the picture. Seriously, a little professionalism, SteveJack.
So then, why upgrade to Vista then? Why not just keep XP alive a while longer?
He’s three days late with this joke.
if that timeframe is to be believed, then there is NO point in migrating to Vista; just hang on that little bit longer.
What does that say about MS’s confidence in its own products?
Why don’t they just give it up already? By the time this Windows 7 mess comes out there won’t be a single Windows user around to even care. Flattering picture of Gates btw.
We’ll all be loading Mac OS X 10.7 on our Macs by that point.
MDN’s Take contains two absolute gems that will be quoted by others for years to come:
“Bill Gates is to cool as Dracula is to dead.”
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The new term “functionally derivative.”
Still laughing, MDN!
Hahahaha – he’s insane
Hmm…somebody just bought a copy of leopard….
@ApplePi
Hey now, I’m sure that picture <u>was</u> taken professionally. Besides, that picture is about as good as he deserves.
To clyde:
LMFAO ! ! But he”s probably bought a few hundred by now for laboratory analysis.
(I’m picturing Bill hiding on the floor of a closet in his mansion with a MacBook Air and Leopard whispering, “Holy crap, this is cool. We gotta copy this.”)
I love that picture! The guy is a dirt ball!!!!!
I hate Microsoft, but MDN take is harsh. Buying his way in to heaven though ill-gotten gains?!
I have a feeling that Jobs, how is actually quite wealthy has much less of an altruistic mind set. MDN, criticize what can be criticized. You simply do not have a point here.
Carlos Slim has surpassed Gates as far as wealth, he helps no one but him self, and the same can be said of the majority of the worlds billionaires. Sure Gates is a slime-ball boring, untalented nerd, but he is a lot more generous with his wealth then Steve Jobs in any case.
“Bill Gates is to cool as Dracula is to dead.”
That is very, very good stuff.
Who writes these “MacDailyNews Takes?”
Of course Microsoft has an R&D;dept……it’s called Apple.
AKA eventually.
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Mac-nugget.
How the fsck do you know what Jobs does or does not do for charity?
Answer: You don’t. So, shut the fsck up, you pontificating asshole.
@Mac that Roared:
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Think you may have missed ApplePi’s sarcasm-any pic of Gates is bad
Wondering if MS moving to Win 7 so soon may be a tacit admission that Vista is a monumental flop. If so then Id ask for a damn refund.
I knew I had a good reason to hold off on that Vista upgrade!
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BWHAAA HAAAA HAAAA HAAAA!
Bill Gates is to cool as Dracula is to dead.
Oh, that really is a good one! Still laughing…