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Fresh Air For Windows?
jmcbain writes "The NY Times has an opinion piece on how the next Windows could be designed (even through Microsoft has already laid plans for Windows 7). The author suggests 'A monolithic operating system like Windows perpetuates an obsolete design. We don't need to load up our machines with bloated layers we won't use.' He also brings up the example of Apple breaking ties with its legacy OS when OS X was built. Can Windows move forward with a completely new, fast, and secure OS and still keep legacy application support?"
Can Windows move forward with a completely new, fast, and secure OS and still keep legacy application support?
Based on past performance: No.
This has been another edition of Short Answers to Stupid Quesitons.
Remember Vista? Supporting legacy apps is already something MS has no interest in, apparently.
WinCE. Pity about the name, though.
I vote for a chair breaking a Window :D
No, I'm serious. Get a picture from the Microsoft Headquarters, and from a building, add a chair breaking a window and falling to the floor. Cartoonize it, and you're done! :)
I would argue that the New York Times is better qualified to write an OS than Microsoft is...
Just switch to Mac and get parallels :P
Yeah, I know, not very funny. But does every comment have to be great?
PS: I don't reply to ACs.
I am a big fan of Windows and have several servers and workstations running the OS, but it it far from bing an operating system that "Just Works". Configuring Windows still basically requires significant registry editing work. It may Just Work in a couple of years, but at this point Mandriva is still a safer bet for the average consumer.
I agree that Linux still has it's problems, but I don't think windows is any better in a lot of ways. I mean, it can't even scale a desktop image for the wallpaper while maintaining aspect ratio. What kind of joe sixpack OS can't do that? Do you expect people to edit their own photos? Windows simply thrives because it's what people are used to. It isn't because it is any better than the competition. Truth be told, if we were all using the actual best available product, I would say that most of us would be using Macs. And that comes from somebody who doesn't really particularly like Apple.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
No WAYYY!!!
I'm sorry for being so harsh, but have you been Drinking Bleach? What else would the 7 stand for? The seven deadly sins? Well.. on second thought...
If anyone doesn't get the Borg reference, they don't belong here, they should be at the geek office turning in their geek card (or educating themselves, whichever they prefer).
"16MB (fuck off, MiB fascists)" - The Mighty Buzzard
How about a dancing egg'ed Steve Ballmer who is throwing a chair? :)
Ant(Dude) @ Quality Foraged Links (AQFL.net) & The Ant Farm (antfarm.ma.cx / antfarm.home.dhs.org).
Ooh, what a fun game...let me try:
How to make a Boeing 747
- start with a long tin can
- put wings and engines on it
- put some chairs in it
- you're done
The "cue the foo posts in 3, 2, 1..." posts will commence with no subsequent foo posts in 3, 2, 1...
That's ridiculous- WINE aims to emulate win32 perfectly, including reproducing bugs, so all windows programs run as expected.
That icon is there for legacy purposes.
I would argue that the New York Times is better qualified to write an OS than Microsoft is...
Well, if a tea company can do it...
Live today, because you never know what tomorrow brings
Is that a challenge?
Static
Animated GIF
The rest will produce "The Wit and Wisdom of George W. Bush".
#1 Base Windows 7.0 on the Singularity OS project.
#2 Work with the WINE team to get 100% of the Vista and XP API calls supported under WINE, and port WINE to Singularity OS aka Windows 7.0 for legacy support.
#3 Profit.
Microsoft make sure to make royalty checks made out to Orion Blastar via Paypal to my email address for this idea. :)
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The extra 30GB is to hold the fine print on the new EULA.
Do not mock my vision of impractical footwear
-with every copy of Windoze 7, you get a complete Museum of Ancient Operating Systems! Working copies of Everything -from the original CP/M clone through XP-Pro*- including the truly historic disasters MSDos4.0 and Windows ME!
Experience living history bug-for-bug just like your grandpa did in the safety of our hypervisor environment ( when an os is corrupted just reload from the dvd )!
Old games will run like they did 1999 so, in celebration of this Marketing Triumph, the package is PRICED at $1999!
You may have "owned" them all before, but NOW you can BUY 'em all AGAIN!
*no, you don't get Vista, but ?WHO CARES?)
MS should get all their developers to start contributing to Wine, then develop their next GUI as a skin for Ubuntu.
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
...I just open the windows.
...and now when the gates are gone we can open windows.