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Vista Followup Already in the Works
DesertBlade passed us an InfoWorld article, which has the news that Microsoft is already hard at work on the next version of Windows ... and we may see it as early as 2009. Possibly codenamed Vienna, the next Windows iteration will be coming a brief two and a half years after Vista's launch. This is the same timeframe Microsoft claims it would have utilized for Vista, had they not put Longhorn 'on the back burner' to deal with security issues in XP. Corporate Vice President of Development Ben Fathi is already discussing features for the next OS: "We're going to look at a fundamental piece of enabling technology. Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is ... Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers. It's too early for me to talk about it ... But over the next few months I think you're going to start hearing more and more."
Maybe its hypervisors, I don't know what it is ... Maybe it's a new user interface paradigm for consumers. It's too early for me to talk about it ...
Of course. They need OS X 10.5's features to be announced first.
Actually that's all part of Microsoft's plan. Release a buggy as hell OS in 2009 that doesn't actually run on any current hardware. Get people to buy it then 2 years later when the hardware to run it is finally put on the market, release a patch that fixes the piece of shit they published in 2009. That way they get money in 2009 for a product that won't be ready until at least 2011.
It aint't gonna be 2009, that's all you can depend on. This is the USUAL MS FUD, yes, FUD. Tag (beta) it, FUD.
Christ people, if the parent statement had been inverted to be the slightest diss
on Apple there would have been an uproar.
Can we get over the "Microsoft just steals ideas" sentiment and realize that Windows is
a damn good OS. Maybe its not your favorite but believe it or not (and I know, on Slashdot
this is probably hard to believe) it actually is the *majority* of people's favorite OS,
and that's not because they haven't been "exposed" to OSX. Its because of a whole bunch
of upstream issues like work flow, hardware options, ease of software development, etc.
Now the real irony is -- I'll probably get modded down as flamebait.
Sigh. Fanboys should never be given mod points.
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These stats [w3schools.com] seem to show that Windows XP is at 75% usage and thus did, in fact, manage to 'grab marketshare' in a way that any OS manufacturer would intend it to. Apparently for you 'plenty of users' is 9% of the market share, which I will concede to you with as much grace as you have ever shown.
That still shows a loss of power by M$. By any reasonable standard 75% penetration after six years is excellent. Compared to the much more rapid adoption of the past, it's not. Compared to what they need to claim "defacto standard" it's not good enough either. By M$ standards, XP was a failure. Vista will be worse.
Vista doesn't suck. I should know - I'm using it.
You deserve it.
DMCA, Hollings, Palladium. What might have sounded like paranoia is now common sense.
Man, really. get a grip on yourself. It's just a fucking operating system. Fucking dweeb.