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Windows 7 in the Next Year?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the also-duke-nukem-forever dept.

Microsoft's efforts to get businesses to adopt Vista may come to a screeching halt now that Bill Gates has announced "Sometime in the next year or so we will have a new version", referring to Windows 7, the next expected version of the company's flagship desktop operating system.With a new version available soon, many organizations may decide to wait and see if they can avoid the pain of a Vista rollout altogether.

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  1. good idea! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    And I'm sure it will be thoroughly tested and not cause anyone any headaches like Vista has.

  2. It's official by Chris+Mattern · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Vista is a failure. Gates is shooting it like a lame horse to try and convince people not to switch to Linux.

  3. Re:Mods on crack again by Daengbo · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Linux-like means that I am able to freely modify the parts of the system from the kernel up, not just that it looks like Unix or that I can install GNU tools. Somehow you glossed over the whole "OSX is closed source" part of it, but I knew someone would come along and do that.
    Virtualization is not native ... by definition. Parallels is not "native," here. Wine is not an emulator, and it's not "native," either.

    I think the grammar is the only thing you got right there.

    Just because you like Mac OSX, doesn't make it something it's not.

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