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Windows 7 in the Next Year?
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.
Though I haven't released from complete orgasm in about a month, I have still masturbated several times in this time and I can confidently say that 10 or 20 mini orgasms in a session far outweigh the pleasure derived from one big one. Is there leakage during this process?
Yes, and I'm sure this grosses most people out who have never tried it but I usually eat it.
You think that's gross? Here's gross: you pumping a load of your vitality out into a kleenex and flushing it down the toilet where your swiftly dying sperm commence with attempting to fertilize lumps of shit and other horrid refuse in a pipe somewhere you'll never see. Think about that before you knock my method.
Clever! Conform to the product with less than 1% of the market share, despite being free. Microsoft can't lose with a strategy like that.
Actually, I think Vista is flopping, but once they trim the legacy fat from Windows (the Windows 7 plan), it will remain clear why home users will want to use a media-oriented system instead of a server-oriented abomination like deskop linux. Believe it or not, home users enjoy having less confusing crap to deal with as opposed to more. See: Apple Products. You don't need GNOME or KDE in Windows because it already has a robust professionally designed desktop interface(doesn't even need a mouse!), it doesn't need a wacky set of sub-systems to extend the 1980's functionality of X11.
The only product that needs to emulate Linux is Windows Server- and it does. Windows Server is competing with Linux. Windows in general is competing with Mac OS X. Historical trends in general show that your "plan" here is a sure-fire means of failure (everything wrong with unix + the name windows) -- in reality, systems like Ubuntu are gaining market share only because they're simplified to the point of not being unix-y in the slightest.
And most of the stupid unix crap you can do with Windows Server anyway (text mode, separate home paritions, etc...) and what do users care?