Don't blink, you might miss it.
I just read a news report where Bill Gates comments on having a new version of Windows released "sometime in the next year or so."
What the !?!... you mean Windows Vista is doing so well that you're already starting to talk about a new version so soon?
I have two problems with this:
1) Who thinks MicroSoft can actually get a new OS out in such a short time frame? In order to do so, another OS team would have had to be working almost along side the Vista team for such a short gap between the two. For a number of reasons, I doubt that was the case.
On the other hand, if they just include some of those features they talked about for Vista that didn't make it in the final product (like WinFS and virtual folders) that alone might be enough to slap a new name on it for next year
b) Is anyone really going to buy it? So soon after the release of Vista? I don't think there is any real excitement over a new OS as there was a few years ago. With the maturity of Windows (and Mac OS), it feels like they are both trying to throw more bells and whistles at us in the hopes that we don't realize that their respective products are pretty mature, stable, and do 95% of what we need them to do.
Hey guys... take a well deserved coffee break, and spend a little more time figuring out the next new cool thing rather than rush through a new OS, just so we can have "chewy" buttons or some other such nonsense.
