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Microsoft Submits Windows 7 for Antitrust Review
An anonymous reader writes "Microsoft has submitted the follow-up to Windows Vista to the committee that oversees its US antitrust compliance, to ensure the operating system is meeting the terms of the company's agreement with the government. According to last week's status report on the US antitrust case, Microsoft "recently supplied" the Technical Committee (TC) with a build of the OS, code-named Windows 7, and the TC will "conduct middleware-related tests on future builds" of the software. The move was revealed in papers filed in the US District Court for the District of Columbia. Those on the TC so far are the only ones privy to what the follow-up to Vista will look like, and Microsoft is mum on details of the software. But recent company moves and revelations hint at what can be expected from the software, which is due for release in late 2009 or early 2010. Lets hope Microsoft learns some lessons from the "Vista Capable" dilemma!!"
The problem with saying hardware is 'vista capable' is that its not entirely clear what they mean. I have it on good authority that a room-full of MS lawyers have come up with a new term for selling hardware that the newest version of Windows may or may not run on:
"Supports windows 7" means that if you put the software box on top of the hardware, the hardware will not physically crumble to the ground.
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I would love to have a copy of Windows 7.
It's either the sad descent of a formerly energized company into a plodding circle of despair, or... an ominous hint of sinister plans to take over and rename a major city.
W..w..W - Willy Waterloo washes Warren Wiggins who is washing Waldo Woo.
Windows 13, 14, 15, 16 & 17 in Q3 2012...
By Q1 2014 Windows will be on version 791.
1 week later Windows Update will begin a constant update process that never ends.
It will continue to consume all resources and hardware added to all nearby hardware until it achieves critical mass.
These individual Windows 'Mersenne' installations will because of gravity begin to drift towards each other, merging
into one giant super-bloat. This will become the next version of windows nicknamed 'Neutron'. This will slowly begin
to assimilate all matter on Earth followed by the rest of the solar system (except Mercury... Steve 'Sweaty' Ballmer needs
somewhere Hell-like to vacation) and then the Orion Arm. The final version of Windows will be a super-massive black hole
know as Singularity. Unfortunately Singularity will never get past beta status as anyone attempting to use it's UI (known
as Hawking Radiation) will be sucked in. Around this time, the EU will finally get around to fining Microsoft $11 billion
for monopoly violations and destroying the planet and its competition.
Linux will continue to exist and evolve into a single particle of anti-matter floating through space until it crashes into Vger.
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blatant dupery like this lends credence to the idea that the editors are merely shell scripts that cowboyneal hacked together 15 mins before chips'n'dips and never bothered to update any of them...
Sigs are too short to say anything truly profound so read the above post instead.
For as much Windows and Microsoft bashing that goes on in this community, it sure is funny to see how eager people are to get their hands on their latest beta.
"Microsoft Beta" is a double negative, but I wouldn't count on the end result being positive...