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Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked
Cassius Corodes is one of many readers to point out that a recent "wishlist" of new Windows development features is floating around the net. This list was supposedly leaked from Microsoft and contains some of their key development features for the next version of Windows. Given that the next new Windows release is bound to be a long way off I would recommend seasoning this news with a hefty dose of sodium chloride.
It will sell better than Vista!
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Thanks to the RIAA, I buy them used...
Who needs Windows sodium chloride: Us open source people make our own. Just give us hydrochoric acid and sodium hydroxide and we'll make... AAAAAAGGGGHHHH
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Microsoft is displeased at the leak. Apparently it's not a wishlist at all.
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I'd like to see the option on boot "Load a lot of libraries you probably will never use, but will take up half your system memory, on start-up (Y/N)
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Step 1: Release awful product
Step 2: Seed the marketplace with rumours about how great the next version will be
Step 3: Sell a lot of awful product (this is the Profit!!! step)
Step 4: Develop next version, dropping cool features and instead devoting more development time to Microsoft Bob, Clippy, and meaningless user-interface tweaks
Loop around to Step 1.
...and the first person to add "make it work better than Mac OS X 10.5" is FIRED!
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Given the latency involved with getting 65,000 people into the right parking spaces, much less coding up an operating system, I'd guess the list is this:
1. Telepathy
2. Time Travel
3. Prescience
4. Anomie
5. 4D Interface
6. Zen
7. Levitation
technical writing / development
You have chosen to not load a number of libraries that you will probably never use. Are you sure? (Y/N)
man, I feel like mold.
...and the first person to add "make it work better than Mac OS X 10.5" is FIRED!And another chair hits the wall! I should have stock in Herman Miller.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
it's a list of things ballmer is envious about other OSes and internet browsers. He's also developing a new model of chair for the release of windows 7 deadly sins edition. :)
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And in other news, the heads of Solaris users around the world exploded into what one witness described as "a lethal conflagration born out of self-righteousness and impotence."
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
I think you mean (Cancel) or (Allow).
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You have chosen to not load a number of libraries that you will probably never use. Loading useless libaries.
Make SELinux enforcing again!
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Don't you have a bunch of important files to move around on your mac?
I was wondering when this was going to happen. Everytime Microsoft releases a "less than expected" OS they have to find a way to pump the vaporware to keep as many folks from looking at Linux and Apple as possible. And with Vista being such a lame duck that even MS fanboys are starting to call it "WinME II" I knew they'd have to come up with a new vaporware to keep folks from looking away from the mistake that is Vista. For those who haven't read their history in this regard, I strongly recommend The Yellow Road to Cairo.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
I think you're right, but I'm pulling this joke from the ether having no install of windows... So...
Clippy sez:
It looks like you're trying to criticize a poorly implemented slashdot meme...
man, I feel like mold.
Its been pushed back to next year (2013)
Make SELinux enforcing again!
Yeah, they should be doing that. But you're right on the mark, it's not going to justify new OS sales if they don't "revolutionize" things every few years. Look at how slow Vista has been taking off, even with many OEM's shipping it unless you specify otherwise.
Here's what I think the next evolution of windows will be: vista with a fresh coat of paint and a few new system-intensive bells and whistles that don't add much in terms of actual functionality. The key "feature" will be a bunch of built in hooks to use pay-as-you-go subscription web applications hosted by MS.
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Vista = New Coke
Just admit the mistake and bring back XP.
I think YOU mean (Continue) or (Cancel)
After all, everyone digitally signs their memes these days.
For a site about things like basic rights, Slashdot users sure do like to censor "dissent".
Only on slashdot would that get modded "+5 informative" :)
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A stable, secure version of Windows is in our future and always will be.
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Yeah, forget you guys--I'm gonna make my own partition table, with /blackjack and /hookers. In fact, forget the partition table...
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