Rumours Ripe about Vista Successor
Everybody loves a good rumour - especially IT people. The current one circulating the tech realm is of the enigmatic follow-up to Windows Vista - being referred to as “Windows 7″.
Several sites have posted articles hypothesising what might or might not be in the OS, what users would like, and when the release date will be. The commonality seems to be the theory that the release will come in the second half of 2009, rather than 2010 as had been previously understood; and the fact that Microsoft seems to be paying attention to all the consumer discontent currently hanging in the air.
Whatever form the next Windows offering takes, I just hope it’s better than the current one. In the meantime I’ll be adopting a let’s-wait-and-see attitude about it all, because most IT rumours end up being fueled more by speculation than anything else.
That said here are a few of the articles I’ve run across currently covering the story:
- “Windows watch starts to point to 7“, CNET News.com, 22 January 2008
- “Vista successor, Windows 7 to be released next year?“, APC Magazine, 22 January 2008
- “Could Windows 7 be the best Windows yet?“, ZDNet.com, 22 January 2008
