Windows 7

[Vince]

As Vista sinks slowly in the west, eyes are turning to Windows 7, scheduled to be released in early 1010. Microsoft confirmed that they will be giving away free "pre-beta" versions at a conference later this year.

Built on the Vista code, Windows 7 will be designed to be backwards compatible with Vista. And while it will have a 32-bit edition, 64-bit will be "the way to go."

[Viper_Sweden]

I'm not entirely sure, but I think you got the date wrong...

[Vince]

Aaaaaaargh!!!!!!!!!!! Windows 7 is scheduled to be released in early 2010.

[GWarrior]

1010?

[Mythos]

haha funny (sorry vince)

[Blackhand]

Common everybody makes mistakes!

[Vince]

In a recent conference, a Microsoft engineer insisted that Windows 7 will have a new kernel (a key part of the operating system) that will only use 40 megabytes of memory.

The new kernel is named "Winmin." Other Microsoft officials later denied this, but most aren't commenting. In my humble opinion, they might not know. Or Microsoft might be fishing for free publicity by inventing confusion.

And then a technical firm in Australia announced that Vista Service Pack 1 already contains Winmin. Service Pack 1 is only slightly faster than the original Vista, however, and Microsoft claims that Windows 7 will be noticeably faster.

[Vince]

Another technical writer explained the conflict between people who claim that Vista can only support 3 gigs of RAM, while others claim that it supports 4 gigs.
He explained that Vista confiscates 1 gig for its own use. 3 gigs are then available for your other applications.

But 64-bit Vista supports 8 gigs with Home Basic, and up to 128 gigs with other versions.

In other words, Folks, your next computer needs to be 64-bit.

[Cloudburst]

I think you mean GB not MB...

a computer from '93 had 4 "megs" or RAM.

[Vince]

Where was my brain? They haven't even introduced the pre-beta version, and I've made two major flaws.