Windows 7 - a whole lot of assumptions so far
May 27th, 2008 | By Steven Hodson | Category: Technology
Today must have been let’s flood the blogosphere today with a whole lot of nothing day as it seemed to be all about Windows 7 on just about every Windows oriented blog that I read. Admittedly I am a Windows OS user who hasn’t been the most impressed with Vista and I really have some high hopes for the next version of the OS better known right now as Windows 7. As high my hopes might be I am also realistic enough to know that the chances of even a small percentage of what I would like to see happen to the OS will actually come about.
I have written previously about some of my thoughts on Windows 7 so it was rather interesting to see this sudden glut of information about the OS hitting the web today. Everyone from Mary Jo Foley (who had two pieces) who threw out a lot of thoughts about what was in the pipe to Robert Scoble who has basically written off even being concerned with it at this point.
The only really interesting stuff that I saw are the supposed screen captures that found their way into CrunchGear’s email Inbox and are said by both Matt Hickey of TechCrunch and Peter Ha of CrunchGear to have been verified as actual screen shots. I’ve included a few of them here for you to take a look at. If you want to see them all just head over to CrunchGear and have at it. I will say I think it highly likely that these are real but if they are then there are some interest user interface changes happening.
Update: I was just notified by a someone I trust that the screen shots are indeed fakes.
Of all that I read today though the most useless post had to be the c|net interview with Steven Sinofsy the head of Windows development and has been parsed and re-parsed ad nauseam. Even though Ina Fried of c|net tried hard to get the Chief Secrecy Officer to crack under her relentless questioning about what we can expect with Windows 7 Steven kept true to form and said a whole lotta nothin’.
While the guys at LiveSide like to think that this same tactic of silence won’t work on the web services side of Windows the fact is that Sinofsy also has those teams under his thumb(screws) as well. So regardless of which part of the Windows development; OS or web, we look at all we are going to hear for some time is either silence or misdirection.
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