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Microsoft Plans WinXP "Reloaded"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gotta-reinstall-every-month-or-two-anyway dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Microsoft changed their minds and are planning a new OS release before Longhorn. They are calling it XP Reloaded."

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  1. matrix by jacobjyu · · Score: 0, Redundant

    What's next.. Windows Revolutions?

  2. like the matrix? by MattyCobb · · Score: 0, Redundant

    kinda like the matrix reloaded... does that mean it will be ok and have some decent fight scenes but overall be worse than the original? or does it mean Bill Gates is reloading the virtual word we live in convinced that we have a good and stable OS but really we are all prisoners?? ...AGHHHH GOD SAVE US!

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  3. (TM) by BillyBlaze · · Score: 1, Redundant

    Did they license the Matrix Reloaded trademark? Or maybe they're just a bunch of hippocrates.

  4. Well, first off.. by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Reloaded is just an internal name for it..

    Secondly, the article talks of an interim release. They wouldn't want to call something that breaks compatibility a service pack.

    They probably want to build in a bunch of support for cooly new hardware. Pretty much like Windows 98 SE, they needed an update bigger than a service pack to get USB, etc, working..

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  5. nothing new by gyratedotorg · · Score: 0, Redundant

    this is nothing new. ive had windows reloaded at least once a year since 1995.

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  6. WinME all over again by yeremein · · Score: 2, Redundant

    Remember how Win98 was supposed to be the last of the DOS-based OSs? ... but then Microsoft couldn't ship Windows 2000 in time, so they threw some extra crap into Win98SE and called it Millennium Edition.

    Sounds to me like XP Reloaded is the next Windows Me.

    *shudder*

  7. Re:Shouldn't that be... by antarctican · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Sounds to me more like XP Reinstalled...

    No, more Like Windows XP Rebooted....

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  8. Only to get worse.... by Ignatius_VI · · Score: 0, Redundant

    XP Reloaded...

    The worst of the trilogy...

  9. no, no, no by nicotinix · · Score: 0, Redundant

    the real name is XP Rebooted!

  10. XP trilogy by biet · · Score: 0, Redundant

    XP
    XP Reloaded
    XP Revolution

  11. Matrix...oh wait Windows Reloaded by m00dawg · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Doesn't Windows Reloaded soudn a lot like Matrix Reloaded? I mean they even made a Matrix spoof.