Windows 7 Coming Sooner Than Expected?

Given that Windows 7 is looking to be mostly Windows Vista with a few cosmetic makeovers.. It’s actually a surprise its taking them so long to release it!!
 Nb. As for Multi-touch its no more than a hardware driver, which doesn’t need a year to make.. Â

If Microsoft wants do hurt peoples feelings then they would make it pointless version but hopefully rumors are true and it will be freaking small , fast and stable with better security.
Currently it's their last try do awake the Longhorn project because WIn8 or Midori is too far away and Linux or Mac would get more attention if they really planned do ruin peoples suggestions.
Just afto wait more details of how is the newest milestone3 in size and speed compared do Vista and XP , M3 was said do be out....

""Given that Windows 7 is looking to be mostly Windows Vista with a few cosmetic makeovers.. It’s actually a surprise its taking them so long to release it!!""

It is based on Vista's bare source - Although it will look quite similar, it will have undergone major coding changes.

I don't like the direction things are headed. I really don't understand the whole "flip album" thing that both MS and Apple are doing with music/graphics... its really just totally unnecessary overhead.

Multi-Touch may be great for tablet PCs, laptops, kiosks, and other such things (as the iPhone has shown), but doesn't have a very large PC market, and as mentioned, is basically a driver.

Lemme use my powers of foresight and predict that there will be "enhanced search function"...

Just more services to be running.

How about putting out a new FS (WinFS, ADO, or whatever they have)? Further 64-bit support? Some kernel-level virus protection? Faster boot time? More intuitive control of disabling unnecessary services (why did we have "Desktop Cleanup" but no attention paid to unused services?)...

Why are they adding Gadgets? Does anyone actually use that? It's a throwback to freaking Win98's Active Desktop and panels, and the continued attempts of MS and Netscape to try to get people to use sidebars in browsers. NO ONE LIKES SIDEBARS.

Based on vista is ok, as long as they fix it. From Win7 I want 2 things.
1  Performance. It should run at least as fast as XP. On  the EXACT SAME HARDWARE. (My expensive cpu is to run apps, not the os.)

2 Better reliability and security. But not at the cost of loads of ram and cpu cycles.

I dont want sidebars, or “enhanced search function” (if you cant find stuff on your own hard disk with XP search, your doing something horibly wrong) And most of all I dont want to replace my current PC, which does everything I want at a good speed, just to get support for vista/win7 stuff that could work on xp if only they botherd to make it.

why dont you just get ubuntu linux if your looking for something that can run the aps then.

In my opinion, as humble as it may be, I currently use XP Pro at home and in the office. From what I've seen of Vista, I really like it, and I would love to use it but what worries me is the software compatibility.
I work in a computer store, and [we] use much software that [MS] hadn't bothered to make compatible with Windows Vista. As an independant artist, [at home] I use programs like Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, e-Frontier Poser. These programs as well were not created [by MS] with co-operative funtionality in mind. For me personally, and my art, it would be far less costly to just switch to Macintosh all together, as some of my software can be installed on both Windows & Mac computers.
Microsoft really needs to give their head a shake, as this reminds me exactly the situation where Manitoba and other provinces decided to become "cigarette smoke free." What happened there? Certain cities at first, then WHOLE PROVINCES went 100% smoke free in their public buildings. Here is the result of this: Bars, restaurants, other establishments - LOST CUSTOMERS. If you DO NOT give your customers THE CHOICE whether they CAN or CANNOT do something, guess what: People are going to EXCERCISE THEIR RIGHT TO MAKE A CHOICE, and might very well find something different.
I'll be the engineers [at MS] don't see this in their statistics as well.
Again, that's just my humble opinion. Thanks for reading.

to Jen:

"I work in a computer store, and [we] use much software that [MS] hadn’t bothered to make compatible with Windows Vista". MS does not make the software compatible with Vista it is Software Titles responsibility to make compatible with vista by releasing updates or new versions