Jamie Le Souef

The latest status report in Microsoft’s U.S. antitrust case mentions that the company has submitted a build of Windows 7, the next version of the PC operating system, for review by the technical committee involved in the case. The report was filed last week, but it slipped under the radar until it was noted within the last day by Information Week and others.

Here’s the full report: PDF, 23 pages. And here are excerpts from the report’s Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 references:

As noted in the prior status report, as the scheduled expiration of the relevant portions of the Final Judgment approached, the TC [Technical Committee] identified a number of remaining middleware-related bugs and requested that Microsoft address these issues. Microsoft has corrected most of these issues, and the TC has tested the fixes. Microsoft has included these corrections in XP SP 3 or Vista SP 1, as appropriate. A remaining bug in the “Open With” feature will be corrected in “Windows 7,” the announced successor to Windows Vista. The TC and Microsoft continue to discuss another middleware issue, which the TC has sought to have Microsoft include in Windows 7.

In addition, the TC has begun to review Windows 7 itself. Microsoft recently supplied the TC with a build of Windows 7, and is discussing TC testing going forward. The TC will conduct middleware-related tests on future builds of Windows 7.

Plaintiffs reported in the last status report on their agreement with Microsoft to resolve any Final Judgment concerns relating to the desktop search functionality in Windows Vista (“Desktop Search”). The TC reviewed Microsoft’s implementation of the changes agreed to, and Microsoft included the new Desktop Search features in Vista SP 1, which Microsoft recently released to OEMs.

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There are One Response to “ Microsoft submits Windows 7 for antitrust review ”

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Gurkan Says

All I can say is Thank You!

Thank You Windows 7 Team for this great release; and special thanks to you, for answering all the questions more than once and for telling the newest news from inside Redmond for more than 36 hours without any long sleeping breaks (as I conclude from your posts) ;-)

Windows Vista = Modern Windows ME (Mistake Edition)
Windows 7 = Modern Windows XP

Here is my benchmarked view about Windows XP, Vista and 7

Windows XP Pro SP3, Install, right off the bat, consuming 89MB of RAM for the OS with no other programs running.

Windows Vista, Install, right off the bat, consuming 800MB of RAM! for the OS with no other programs running.

Windows 7 Final, Install, right off the bat, consuming 222 MB of RAM, for the OS with no other programs running.

I guess Microsoft made a huge improvement in the system resources needed for Windows 7 after its fatal mistake with Windows Vista! But I will continue running windows XP as all of my programs runs perfectly fine under it and I have no genuine excuse to upgrade. I am a minimalist that I have “nLited” my installation of Windows XP and when I did that installation my nLited XP was consuming 43 MB of RAM for nLited XP just to run with no other programs running, no other Operating System-of-the-NOW can beat that! I am currently waiting for a vLite version tailored for Windows 7 so I can do a redo of performance after removing the “fat” out of Windows 7, but until then, I will just leave the case open and continue my normal activities under Windows XP.
Thank you!

January 15th, 2010 at 5:35 pm

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