If you haven’t herd by now, google is developing an “operating system” for the cell phone platform. This is different than making an actual cell phone because google is just designing the software which will be installed on third-party devices. This is truly great because, from the looks of things, the software is really amazing and customizable which will complement the amazing hardware choices you will have when it’s released. This is by far the most personal way to own a mobile phone. You pick your service provider, you pick a nice model, and then you get an amazing OS in android from google. I am anxious to see how this will compare to the fantastic user experience on the iphone.
Like I mentioned the software is not finished yet but recently google has demoed some features of their OS. I have taken the video of their demos from youtube and made them into the playlist bellow. Enjoy!
“Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates’ words are being parsed for hidden meanings. According to my News.com colleague Ina Fried, Gates said this week during a speech before the Inter-American Development Bank: ‘Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new (Windows) version’”
States Mary Jo Foley blogs for ZDNet. She continues saying
“Microsoft officials are insisting nothing has changed: Windows 7 is due out roughly three years after Windows Vista’s consumer launch (which was January 2007), meaning in early 2010.”
Even after Bill Gates stated a new version of windows would be shipping next year, 2009, Microsoft has officially stated the next version of windows, Windows 7, will be shipping three years after Vista was released. This 2010 expected release date will hopefully improve on the low and buggy quality of windows vista.
This comes after the much delayed launch of windows vista. Hopefully for the windows community Microsoft is able to produce a product which doesn’t yield so many issues the way vista has during this first year. (Vista launched January 2007) I feel however that Microsoft will do a better job given all the issues they have had with vista. No company wants their multimillion dollar project to fail the way vista has but it clear they will not make the same mistake twice. Plus, I expect that Microsoft offers a better upgrade path for users. Expect windows seven certified PC’s to actually have the ability to run windows seven. (A big upset for PC users was when windows vista certified computers failed when trying to upgrade to vista.) Expect a very strong and different Windows 7.
However, I do feel this news exemplifies the fact that vista is a huge upset for Microsoft as well as us consumers. Not only are there too many known issues with vista for it to be a strong competitor but it’s also very unoriginal featuring very ‘mac-like’ features which don’t conform to standard windows users. My opinion, stick with windows xp for as long as you can and than upgrade to Windows Seven.
