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Microsoft officially broke the silence on Windows 7 today on its official Windows Vista Team Blog by publishing information on the changes in the kernel, compatibility and why they had stayed silent all this time.
Chris Flores stated that the silence on Windows 7 was very much intentional and will be the new approach to publishing information on products in development as they believe this will improve the quality of the product. Also it guards the innovation in its products.
The article also says that Windows 7 will very much be compatible with software and hardware that works for Vista. System requirements will not go up. Microsoft still believes Windows 7 is a major release despite the unchanged requirements. However … Microsoft will not be shipping Windows 7 with a brand new kernel (the speculated MinWin kernel). However they are refine the componentized approach of the Vista kernel and are making more and more refinements to the current kernel.
Windows Vista established a very solid foundation, particularly on subsystems such as graphics, audio, and storage. Windows Server 2008 was built on that foundation and Windows 7 will be as well. Contrary to some speculation, Microsoft is not creating a new kernel for Windows 7. Rather, we are refining the kernel architecture and componentization model introduced in Windows Vista. While these changes will increase our engineering agility, they will not impact the user experience or reduce application or hardware compatibility. In fact, one of our design goals for Windows 7 is that it will run on the recommended hardware we specified for Windows Vista and that the applications and devices that work with Windows Vista will be compatible with Windows 7.
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Well, I am a little bit disappointed. It would have been sweet to have a new kernel that got rid of all the historical luggage.
No problem for me to sacrifice backward compatibility in favor for a more performant kernel.
Well now the speculation moves to decide which one is better or how much of a benefit we will get with Windows 7.
None Vista is crap & 7 already sounds like one
hiwaystar said: None Vista is crap & 7 already sounds like one
A suprising comment from a microsoft hater!
InsomniacGeek--the backwards compatibility you're talking about isn't really an issue at the kernel level, but rather at the Win32/user level. That's the "historical luggage" of Windows. It makes even more sense when you look at Windows 9x vs. NT--the kernels are completely different, but the compatibility between the systems (backwards compatibility) is up the stack.
As for tossing out Win32... I really doubt that will happen anytime soon. It's possible that it could be implemented in some virtualized layer (this could do wonders in terms of the number of viruses that have any potential for affecting the system once past the various protections in place). They could surprise us, but I doubt it will happen in Windows 7. Look at the progression of Office under Sinofsky--2000 to XP, XP to 2003... decidedly evolutionary vs. revolutionary. 2003 to 2007 was more significant, though, so who knows.
I guess if they are not changing the kernel then it should be a free upgrade or why not just make it a service pack instead.
vista doesnt suck... peoples computers suck my office all run vista, as well as my house ... the fact is stop trying to run vista on crappy 5 year old computers, theirs no excuse for not having 1gb of ram... its 25 f*cking dollars! 75% of new mobo's have decent onboard video, but hell even an addon video card thats 30-40$ helps a lot... my entire office got new pc's and they only cost us 400$ a piece to build and they rock vista
eisa: they rarely ever change the kernal, especially a big change like minwin wuld have sugestsed...
what people seem to not understand is that the Vista/2008 kernal is probably one of the best kernals ever written its highly modular hell they can switch it from a server oriented kernel to consumer oriented with some xml changes...
the issue lies in userland not in kernalspace.