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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. Damnit! Isn't that just like Microsoft? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Grrr, those bastards. Oh well, at least I only spent $25 on Vista Pro - thank you university pricing!

    BTW, did anyone notice how the phrase "global warming" has quietly been replaced with "climate change?" Kind of like how the Iraq war went from being about finding WMDs to bringing freedom to the Middle East. "Mankind is the major driver behind the Earth's increasing temperature! You still need to allow your supremely wise leaders to impose ever more intrusive energy restrictions on your personal life! Nevermind the unseasonably cool winters and summers! Nevermind the only certainty about climate change is that the climate always changes! Nevermind the fact that the Earth has been both much hotter and much cooler than it is now several times throughout her 4 billion year history!" (Waves hands mysteriously and does Obi Wan impression). I guess if you repeat "the sky is falling" enough times, it becomes a fact in the public sheep's consciousness. I, however, prefer to think about "The Boy Who Cried 'Wolf'" instead of "Chicken Little" when it comes to the global warming alarmists whose real goal is to destroy industry and depopulate the Earth on a massive scale.

  3. 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.

  4. Re:Nah, not really by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    Where would you like your 5 copies of Mac OS X sent?

  5. 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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