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Fresh Air For Windows?

Posted by timothy on from the reinvention dept.

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?"

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  1. Short answer: no by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

    1. Re:Short answer: no by MrEricSir · · Score: 5, Funny

      Compared to NetBeans, Eclipse is a formula one car.

      But to be fair, compared to NetBeans, a dead snail is a formula one race car.

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  2. Existing legacy support. Wait, what? by jeffmeden · · Score: 4, Funny

    Remember Vista? Supporting legacy apps is already something MS has no interest in, apparently.

  3. Windows done right from the ground up by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: 5, Funny

    WinCE. Pity about the name, though.

  4. Re:Time to Get Rid of The Gates Borg Icon by Spy+der+Mann · · Score: 5, Funny

    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! :)

  5. Re:frist pawst by Drinking+Bleach · · Score: 4, Funny

    I would argue that the New York Times is better qualified to write an OS than Microsoft is...

  6. Sure they can! by ThorGod · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just switch to Mac and get parallels :P

    Yeah, I know, not very funny. But does every comment have to be great?

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  7. Re:Time to Get Rid of The Gates Borg Icon by bigstrat2003 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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).

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  8. Re:Time to Get Rid of The Gates Borg Icon by antdude · · Score: 4, Funny

    How about a dancing egg'ed Steve Ballmer who is throwing a chair? :)

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  9. Re:Time to Get Rid of The Gates Borg Icon by Renderer+of+Evil · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now that Bill Gates is retired from Microsoft, the editors should get with the times and lose that dated, painfully unfunny logo they use for Microsoft.

    That icon is there for legacy purposes.

  10. Challenge accepted by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is that a challenge?
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  11. Re:oh come on by Nefarious+Wheel · · Score: 5, Funny

    The extra 30GB is to hold the fine print on the new EULA.

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