Windows 7 TalkZ

Apple have now finally released a version of Bootcamp for OSX 10.6 to support Windows 7. Not to soon either as Apple had previously announced that they would be releasing Windows 7 support by the end of 2009.

This is good new for owners of Mac’s as they can now dual boot their Mac’s Windows 7 enabling them to run the most popular OS of all time.

The bad news is that Bootcamp only does not allow users to re-size partition safely and it is still difficult to transfer file between the OS’s due to the incompatible file systems.

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A Neowin article seems to indicate that Windows 8 has got a tentative release date of July 2011 which would mean just under 2 years between releases if this was true. Certainly this seems to be a LOT quicker release schedule than we are accustom. However Microsoft did reduce the 6 year gap of Windows XP to Windows Vista down to 3 years with Windows Vista to Windows 7. So maybe a 2 year gap between Windows 7 and 8 is not going to be that unreasonable. This could mean Microsoft is going for a more incremental upgrade approach rather than the big leap approach like with Windows Vista that I am sure Microsoft does not want to repeat.

If this is the case we could well expect to see the beta of Windows 8 by the end of the year which seems more  likely as screenshots have now started to leaked of a post Windows 7 build. These screenshots appears to show that this latest version was only compiled on the 22nd January 2010 at 7pm.  .

The screenshots don’t indicate any new features and it is still sporting Internet Explorer 8 and not Internet Explorer 9 that Microsoft is has already previewed.

The really major news with this new build is that the Beta Fish is back as the default background image.

Source: WZOR (via MSFTKitchen )

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