doctorwho92

Is Windows 7 Just a Vista Service Pack?

No, The NT 7 kernel, which was being written from the ground up, was dropped. W7 uses a kernel almost identical to Vista, and in fact what IS coming out as Windows 7 was referred to inside Microsoft as v6.1, because it has basically the same the kernel, and the same API's, so yes, it is a Service Pack. Not that that is a bad thing. Apple's been charging for Service Pack's for years.


On Feb 03 03:53 PM numberoneoppa wrote:

> These guys are idiots. Windows 7 is going to be running off of the
> new NT 7.0 kernal, whereas Vista was on the NT 6.0 kernal. People
> who think it's a service pack have no idea what a service pack is.
> Windows seven will have a similar, but refined GUI, and will be less
> resource intensive. Expect sales (and pre-sales) for Windows 7 to
> be very high once reviews start coming in for it during later beta
> stages. Myself and others who have tested build 7000 (current public
> beta) all agree that thus far Microsoft has definitely taken some
> steps in the right direction with 7.