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I expect everything different than Vista.

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tlarkin

Nope, probably won't happen. MS needs to get rid of the bloat that is backwards compatibility. Sorry, developers need to update their products and quit acting like crying babies. They should take care of their customers, and that also costs money so people shouldn't cry about paying for it either. They need to totally get rid of all backwards compatibility, because that is one reason why Windows is so bloated to begin with. If anything, perhaps make some sort of virtual environment you can run older applications in, if you choose to do so.

They are going back to a more Unix-like structure, and start to migrate more towards that model of OS. User level preferences, perhaps no more registry, self contained applications, and actual local level administration. Instead of power user, super user, super admin, and all of that crap that makes ACLs and other windows permissions a freaking nightmare to deal with.

I expect people will cry about the changes and whine about the hardware requirements. Windows developers won't write proper drivers or applications and probably like a billion things will break when it is released. Hopefully they will get more efficient at their coding and no longer require over double the hardware requirements over every other OS in existence.

Oh, and it will have things like full on EFI support and ZFS support and all that great stuff that was cut out of Vista. Which is why when I said originally Vista was the new WindowsME. Those of you that didn't believe me - I told you so!

EricH

I agree. Backwards compatibility is the number 1 reason for the "bloat' and "insecurity" of any OS that incorporates it.

However, there is a reason.
The surveys and market analysis I've read clearly suggest that most users value their software applications and subsequent data more valuable than either the OS or computer itself.

And that is a very real and legitimate concern; thus affecting the base mentality of further OS development.

It's a shame that this causes so much problems.

But there are answers, such as a multi-boot system or virtualized environment, so if the OS vendors would push those technologies we could indeed have very streamlined, non-bloated OS's.

mep916

In layman terms, can you describe ZFS? This has to do with storage, right? How does this compare to NTFS?

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tlarkin

Well....to sum up the wiki page that explains it very nicely

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zfs

It allows for virtual devices so you can merge multiple partitions into say a RAID and not have to use the whole disk itself....

The big thing I like is how it always writes new data to new blocks on the hard disk, allowing for you to go in and take snap shots for instant complete back ups.

You find ZFS on like SANs (and XSANs) and is used for giant data mining, and the fact that you can go in at any given time and take snap shots very quickly and efficiently it allows you to make full cloned block for block back ups of your hard disk. Pretty handy if one is starting to fail and your back ups are over a month old.

Then of course you have the better checksum the better I/O so on and so forth, and again Microsoft is the last OS to adopt this technology, and they should have it in Vista given all the crashes the OS has, be nice to take multiple instant snap shots of your HD.

rydin4life

Well, my pc is about 5 years old now, running xp on 512megs of ram...runs fine but I was going to replace in 09 with a new vista machine, but it seems like I'll just wait until 2010 and wait for windows 7 to hit...ideas on that?

tlarkin

Especially if windows 7 has full on EFI support, you will want to buy EFI compliant hardware, otherwise you won't benefit from EFI period.

Kill Bill

Hmm what do I expect from windows 7. Easy! A blue screen of death.

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speedyink

My hopes are for microsoft to scratch everything and start from scratch. Apple did it, and it did wonders for them, I can only imagine what it could do for Windows. I also expect some damn nice eye candy Otherwise the usual secure, customizable, stable, and some backwords compatiblity would be nice, but not necessary as it's needed for change.

But for now Vista is doing just fine. I love how people say it's broken and buggy and blah blah blah. Thats BS, Vista is fine, if it wasn't I'd be using XP. But I realize this is a lost cause, so bash away, cause I don't give a shit what the sheep say.

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tlarkin

Sorry, I disagree and think of myself as at least above a sheep. Vista is a steaming pile of crap, and the UI is chunky and unintuitive, though it does look more pretty than XP.

It also doesn't really improve any technologies or securities all that much, but what it does do is take up quadruple the amount of hardware specs to run.