Although Microsoft is beguiling the world this week with information on actual new product launches, people just can’t seem to look forward far enough or fast enough. And so, those on the hunt for more tidbits about Windows 7 might want to turn to an interesting post by blogger Long Zheng which notes that Windows 7 is all over the agendas for Microsoft’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC) and Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) occuring October 26 and November 5, respectively.
Actually if WinHEC is to be believed, Microsoft really is trying to put Vista behind it as fast as possible. The first two sentences on the WinHEC registration site are:
“Windows 7 is coming soon! It’s time for you to learn all you need to know to build great hardware products that work with Windows 7 and take advantage of the new capabilities we’re building into the platform.”
But if you can’t wait until November, Zheng has ferrated out some info on new features based on titles of sessions. These include strange items such as Certified Electronic Picture Frames, System Integrated Flash Storage, DirectX Core Graphics to name a few. Will Windows 7 be interesting enough to stop the anti-Windows, pro-Linux, pro-SaaS tide? All the cool features in the world won’t help if it does perform faster than Vista and require less patching.
But if you can’t wait until November Zheng has ferrated out some info on new features based on titles of sessions. These include strange items such as Certified Electronic Picture Frames, System Integrated Flash Storage, DirectX Core Graphics to name a few. Will Windows 7 be interesting enough to stop the anti-Windows, pro-Linux, pro-SaaS tide? All the cool features in the world won’t help if it does perform faster than Vista and require less patching.
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