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How Microsoft Plans To Get Its Groove Back With Win7

Posted by kdawson on from the you-have-no-compatibility-get-over-it dept.

shawnz tips a blog post up at thebetaguy that details Windows 7's huge departure from the past, and the bold strategy Microsoft will be employing to maintain backward compatibility. Hint: Apple did it seven years back. There are interesting anti-trust implications too. "Windows 7 takes a different approach to the componentization and backwards compatibility issues; in short, it doesn't think about them at all. Windows 7 will be a from-the-ground-up packaging of the Windows codebase; partially source, but not binary compatible with previous versions of Windows."

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  1. Re:Has "fail" written all over it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    As my father is fond of saying: "Never start vast projects with half-vast ideas."

  2. Re:All Vapor. by click2005 · · Score: 5, Funny

    I think that the big problem is that Microsoft is calling this new operating system "Windows".

    Yeah, Windows sounds too easily breakable. They should call it something like MS Bricks.

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  3. Yeah, let them sink in their record revenue... by IonSwitz · · Score: 5, Funny

    You're right, let them sink!

    Let them perish in that huge heap of cash they're bringing in. Look how their utterly failing business model is killing them. St00pid ancient business model. They're just bringing in 16 billion dollars per quarter. Muahahaha! S00 sp00pid. Linux FTW, etc, etc.

    The Linux vs Windows flame war was fun back in 1995. Can we move along?