How Microsoft Plans To Get Its Groove Back With Win7

Posted by kdawson on Friday April 4, 2008 @03:02AM 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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Re:Has "fail" written all over it by The+End+Of+Days · 2008-04-04 03:34 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Vote for NoScript+CookieSafe by default in Firefox No. I don't want my experience, nor the general web experience, to be dictated by paranoid Luddites who want the web to stay the same as it was in 1993.
Offtopic here but... by fuego451 · 2008-04-04 03:39 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"Genesis 1:32 And God typed :wq!

I think he typed :shell and forgot how to get back.