Comments on: Windows 7: Nothing more than Windows 6.1 in disguise http://blog.techiebytes.com/2009/02/03/windows-7-nothing-more-than-windows-61-in-disguise/ Technology information in byte sized chunks. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:21:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Adam Mahle http://blog.techiebytes.com/2009/02/03/windows-7-nothing-more-than-windows-61-in-disguise/#comment-46 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:03:48 +0000 http://cj52973.wordpress.com/?p=288#comment-46 MinWin and Windows 7: There is only one problem with the theory being used. “Windows 7″ the marketing term as released by Microsoft specifically refers to the 6.1 Kernel line. The name “Windows 7″ is used only as such. Microsoft has never released a new Kernel this late in the game – and the ramifications that releasing one this late in the stream would be catastrophic. Developers, and vendors would be irate as hell – and the driver problems that plagued Vista’s launch would be revisited with this launch. It’s just not going to happen. And all recent chatter out of Microsoft pretty much confirms this.

I do, however, believe that the MinWin information does refer to the next full version of Windows… not the incremental change of the 6.1 version. And, when Windows version 7 (code, not marketing name whatever that may be) is released it will contain much of what the current MinWin does. The Marketed “Windows 7″ however, for Microsoft’s sake, better not be it.

]]> By: Chris Jenkins http://blog.techiebytes.com/2009/02/03/windows-7-nothing-more-than-windows-61-in-disguise/#comment-45 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:48:22 +0000 http://cj52973.wordpress.com/?p=288#comment-45 MinWin has been hyped in different versions for years, it’s not a new concept but it does have several variations. If indeed the kernel hasn’t been updated before the public beta then I doubt you’re going to see it done. It would be disastrous for MS to make kernel replacement between beta and release. Note your link is from 10.13.2007 they’ve had plenty of time to implement the kernel. Regardless Windows 7 is not much more than a Service Pack to correct a poor marketing on an incomplete product.

]]> By: Biebs http://blog.techiebytes.com/2009/02/03/windows-7-nothing-more-than-windows-61-in-disguise/#comment-44 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:33:37 +0000 http://cj52973.wordpress.com/?p=288#comment-44 good article, However you might want to do a lil research into minwin

http://www.istartedsomething.com/20071019/eric-talk-demo-windows-7-minwin/

MinWin is going to be the kernel overhaul for Windows 7 and once implemented, you will probably no longer see 6.1. I realize it may be a little confusing to some of you as to why Windows 7 doesn’t contain everything that will be Windows 7 but quite simply, as with many products, development and testing begins by integrating new code into the latest stable code. Until MinWin is implemented, you can basically consider Windows 7 to be an extension and evolution of Windows Vista SP1

]]> By: pochp http://blog.techiebytes.com/2009/02/03/windows-7-nothing-more-than-windows-61-in-disguise/#comment-43 Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:10:13 +0000 http://cj52973.wordpress.com/?p=288#comment-43 More and more Windows users are getting disgruntled I wonder if Windows is self-destructing.

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