Windows Roadmap

[SrDriver]

Question, what does the Windows Roadmap look like as far as a replacement for XP and Vista?

XP has been around quite a while and was wondering if Vista will be replaced sooner?

 

[ToyotaNSaturn]

In MS parlance, a road map is merely a suggestion and not worth the paper that it's written on.

early this year, near the release of Vista, MS CEO Ballmer said that releases wouldn't take as long, 2-3 year cycles. yet, only a few months ago, a leading project guy as MS was quoted as saying the next version of Windows would be "at least 3 years" from coming to fruition.

Let's do the math. Steve Ballmer say's "we'll do it in less time", the guys who write the code and deal with the internal MS struggles says "3+ years" as of mid 07 leaves us at mid 2010 at the earliest. Which of course, means 2011. Ballmer's word, the captain of the MS ship, can't be trusted.

XP will need to be supported for a long time as too many corporate folks are flat out refusing to support Vista as we can NOT support Vista because of mission-critical or line-of-business applications that won't work on Vista.

It's rather sad, actually. A company with all the resources as MS has and we're talking about the next release being 4 years away and reactive features rather than pro-active and revolutionary items. Guess they're too big for their proverbial britches.

So to answer your question, no one really knows. I'd hedge my bets on later rather than sooner.

 

[NJC]

Agree, 3yrs is long enough for most to forget - so call it 2011 or 2012. I also found it hard to find a credible MS Roadmap Of Windows 7:

Quote:
If it sounds like an attempt to appease the company's corporate customers, that seems about right. Whether or not this will be enough information to accomplish that goal remains to be seen. But the presentation comes two weeks after a Forrester Research report cited past product delays and "the lack of a detailed product roadmap" as two reasons some companies are reluctant to lock themselves into Software Assurance contracts.

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/microsoft/archives/118404.asp

 

[Volvohead]

MS historically supports its business products for ten years from when retail availability ends. Win 2k is still in its extended support phase.

Extended support for XP Pro under that policy could continue until at least 2017.

But while MS will continue to "support" the OS, what it does to throw users off the bus is create growing incompatibilities with later software versions, such as browsers, media components and a host of other accessory applications.

As far as roadmaps for future OSes go, that is a total [censored] shoot. Take it as a hopeful expectation, but nothing more.

 

[simple_gifts]

Good chance they won't be hyping big OS releases from now on unless it includes a working version of Wonkavision.

Market has spoken on this one. Someone has pointed out that the "success" of Vista includes corporate licenses that include a downgrade option. Our site "purchases Vista" and then immediately installs XP. This makes the license still valid when Vista is force fed years later. Quite a success story.

 

[ConfederateTyrant]

I think XP will stay around for a while, as Vista is not geared towards corporate use as much as XP is.

 

[NJC]

Originally Posted By: Volvohead
Extended support for XP Pro under that policy could continue until at least 2017.


I wrote 2011 in the other post .... looks even longer:

Quote:
But that’s not the end of the road for XP. Because Windows XP Professional falls into the "business and developer software" category, it qualifies for another five years of extended support, during which Microsoft commits to releasing security updates and continuing to offer paid support. That means anyone using Windows XP Professional (including the x64 and Tablet PC editions) will be able to count on receiving security updates through April, 2014. Under the published security update policy, those security updates will continue to be delivered through Windows Update for at least two years after the beginning of the extended support phase, or until at least April, 2011.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/Bott/?p=133

 

[XS650]

Originally Posted By: simple_gifts
Good chance they won't be hyping big OS releases from now on unless it includes a working version of Wonkavision.

Market has spoken on this one. Someone has pointed out that the "success" of Vista includes corporate licenses that include a downgrade option. Our site "purchases Vista" and then immediately installs XP. This makes the license still valid when Vista is force fed years later. Quite a success story.


MS knows that have a turkey even if Pablo doesn't recognize it as such

MS allegedly spent $5B developing this POS and they already need something to replace it. Are they capable of creating a good OS at any price if Vista is what they turn out for $5B??