In the mean time, looks like Leopard is touch friendly already, with CoverFlow in finder, stacks... And of course iPhone blows windows mobiles away.

"Touch-friendly"? Does that mean "would be great with a multi-touch interface if it actually existed"?

MS will be "blown away" ... by how many patents Apple has on multi-touch technology. M$, meet wall.

Apple didn't invent, nor patented, multi-touch interfaces. They may have patented certain uses for them. But its not like they've created the whole concept.

This technology has been around for a long time.

"A long time"? How long? When the iPhone was announced it was trumpeted (and still is) as some revolutionary step on interfaces and screen technology. So are you saying all that was just hyperbole and marketing and mac-loving-speak?

I bet Apple will already be out with a tablet mac and integration with Mac OS X 10.6 well before Microsoft has a chance to make another disaster 'innovation'.

Nah. Apple won't make a tablet mac. Everyone on the Mac boards say so. There's no market. And Apple is all about keeping their products distinct and minimal.

But why is anyone at all paying attention to the comments of some 'test engineer' in the first place. h***, they aren't even developers, they probably have no idea what's going on.

By the time it comes out we will be @ 10.8, 3 additional releases for MS to play catch up on. And when it does come out it will be a piss poor attempt with no real thought behind it, and MS will still be a victum to device support of other venders as well. Oh and expect 50 different versions with different prices.

Mac and PC fanboys alike, plase stop acting as if multitouch is even close to revolutionary. Touch screens were invented a long time ago, and the concept of capacitance... h*** look up Mr. Faraday himself. The only revolutionary interface I've seen is the brain wave monitoring device. Until that comes out, I'll happly use my mouse and keyboard and God forbid, dial my phone numbers using a DIALPAD.

What's with this M$ touch stuff. They are so ahead of the times. By the time they get touch working, Apple will be using thought control technology to move onscreen objects.

Vista already uses touch technology. Most users usually have plenty of time to fondle their floppy parts while Vista boots up.

Oh.. It smells like more vaporware from Micosoft. This is how they compete... by spouting about the "next version of Windows". If the "next version of Windows" is anything like the disappointment of Vista, all of you Windows users need to jump ship now. It's only going to get worse.

Win 3.0/ 3.1 Win 95 [4.0] Win 98 [5.0] Win ME [6.0] Win XP [7.0] Win Vista [8.0] Win 7 [9.0] ============== Even if you take out Win ME - Win 7 is still version 8_

Someone correct my math_

my 2 cents on the whatever the topic was - Why are they trying to develop a "new" OS already? Seeing as how they never fixed the previous version [XP - or for that matter any of the ones before that - except maybe 98se] and THey are having a major pissy time with the current one which is the oldest "new release" in history_

There's a Doctoral Thesis in there someplace I'm sure_

Windows versions are based on the Windows NT codebase.

Windows NT 4.0 Windows 2000 (Windows NT 5.0) Windows XP (Windows NT 5.1) Windows Vista (Windows NT 6.0)

So it should be Windows 5? However you count it, it doesn't make any sense...but I guess it doesn't really matter, does it?

I love the MS dude saying that iPhone users will be blown away by upcoming Windows advances. By the time "Windows 7" is ready go, Apple's net value may have surpassed MS's. Apple's share of the OS market is slowly but steadily creeping up. And the iPhone will be at least 2 or 3 further generations along. Perhaps if MS had finished Windows 7 sometime in, say, '06, people might have been blown away. But what we can reasonably expect is for people to say "Microsoft? Oh yeah, I remember them. Don't they do programming for the Small Appliances division of Panasonic now?"