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Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the leaky-news-always-suspect dept.

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.

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  1. Open Source Sodium Chloride by EmbeddedJanitor · · Score: 5, Funny

    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

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    1. Re:Open Source Sodium Chloride by PhxBlue · · Score: 5, Funny

      Just give us hydrochoric acid and sodium hydroxide and we'll make... AAAAAAGGGGHHHH
      Johnny was a chemist,
      but Johnny is no more.
      What Johnny thought was H2O
      was H2SO4.
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    2. Re:Open Source Sodium Chloride by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Funny

      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


      Quick! Where's the Open Source PH meter?!?


      Sorry, the project's on hold while the development team debates GPLv3 vs. BSD licensing. Currently it can only detect sulfuric and nitric acids, though it does have real nifty Gnome integration.
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  2. Follow-up story by MrAndrews · · Score: 5, Funny

    Microsoft is displeased at the leak. Apparently it's not a wishlist at all.

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  3. Re:Why didn't they include... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny

    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)

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  4. Standard Microsoft Operating Procedure by elronxenu · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  5. Re:they wish... by ackthpt · · Score: 5, Funny

    they wish ... It will sell better than Vista!

    Oh, but they will find some way to tell you it does!

    "Windows7 - Sales up 27% over Windows Vista among one-legged, blind, ambisexual, vegetarian, wombat herders born under a full moon in a month with an R in it"

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  6. Re:Sand-poundingly obvious things ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    17 years (!) after Windows 95-style open-and-save dialog boxes debuted...

    Greetings from here in 2007! How is life for you in 2012? Has Duke Nukem Forever shipped yet?

  7. Re:wheres your innovation? by Ben174 · · Score: 5, Funny

    half that stuff on their list is already a part of firefox and either a part of many linux distros or easily addable- what is new here exactly? The other half :)
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  8. Re:Am I the only person who makes a 2nd partition? by Frosty+Piss · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've always been in the habit of making four partitions. Windows, applications, games and misc/tmp drive. It's worked well for me.
    Maybe so, but I find that 5 works best: Windows, applications, games and misc/tmp, and porn.
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  9. Re:Wow, Microsoft innovation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't you have a bunch of important files to move around on your mac?

  10. Re:Am I the only person who makes a 2nd partition? by nevillethedevil · · Score: 5, Funny

    Only on slashdot would that get modded "+5 informative" :)

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