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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. Re:Wine? by Klaus_1250 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why the words "just" and "real original"? You do know that the whole "Genuine"-"Real"-"Original"-thing only exists because marketeers found that the uneducated masses pay twice the price, just to see those very words on a box.

    I'll trade the "real original" BSOD in for "just a reversed engineered" software package without masses of flaws any time.

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  2. Antenna by I+Want+to+be+Anonymo · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A. ELNEC - which I believe is written in VB6, I think the author mentions it on his website.

    B. Never heard of it. I'll see what google turns up.

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