Soleron on 29 October 2008
| joora said: Is W7 a fully 64bit OS with 32-bit aplications emulation or is it same as Vista? If it's 64bit i'm moving on it the moment it gets out (or after SP1 if it proves to be really buggy) Also hope it's skinnable - MS is going in right direction, but those gadgets look fugly, and window design also isn't my cup of tea. |
There will be a 32-bit and 64-bit version of Windows 7. Their primary goal is to preserve compatibility to avoid a Vista-like disaster, so major application and library rewrites to take advantage of 64-bit are not going to happen. If you want a real 64-bit OS, use OS X 10.6 or Linux or BSD.
It's not going to be fully skinnable, becuse they are making a big deal out of how you can now apply your system colour (windows border preference) to maximised windows. That's so trivial and useless that they wouldn't mention it if real skins were a big feature. Again, if you want real custom themes, use an open-source OS. Look at those KDE4 screenshots epsilon posted - MS has obviously copied (and ruined) KDE's widget and desktop ideas.
