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Post-Beta Windows 7 Build Leaked With New IE8
CWmike writes "A post-beta version of Windows 7, Build 7022, leaked to Internet file-sharing sites also includes an updated version of IE8, according to searches at several BitTorrent trackers. With Microsoft halting new Windows 7 beta downloads on Tuesday, and blocking all downloads as of noon (EST) today, users are again turning to illegal sources to get the new operating system."
Linux just isn't ready for the desktop yet. It may be ready for the web servers that you nerds use to distribute your TRON fanzines and personal Dungeons and Dragons web-sights across the world wide web, but the average computer user isn't going to spend months learning how to use a CLI and then hours compiling packages so that they can get a workable graphic interface to check their mail with, especially not when they already have a Windows machine that does its job perfectly well and is backed by a major corporation, as opposed to Linux which is only supported by a few unemployed nerds living in their mother's basement somewhere. The last thing I want is a level 5 dwarf (haha) providing me my OS.
>users are again turning to illegal sources to get the new operating system."
I suppose it's almost obligatory, but "why"?, for heavens sake? Other than having a shiny new toy, who really cares? It's just the latest entry in a quarter century of same-old, same-old.
Ho hum ...
1 in 4 Maine children in struggle with hunger.
Ninnle's the up and comer on the Linux desktop. It beats Windoze hands down.
You are a big ol' fat doo-doo head.
I can't speak for others, but I'm not turning to any source to get another version of Windows. When I'm well and truly done with Windows 2000, that is the last version of Windows I will use. The writing was on the wall with Windows XP; I bought my copy of Windows 2000 on the day that Windows XP was released. Some of you may have no choice because of job or career; it will no doubt be useful for me to retain some knowledge for the benefit of family and friends still handcuffed to it, but for myself I have chosen not to reward Microsoft further for what I consider is a job poorly done.
the new operating system
You'd think that, but you'd be wrong.
By some, maybe. Personally, I'm looking forward to upgrading my Vista Tablet PC to Windows 7. I hear it's faster and has quite a few improvements, like the new task bar. So some people -are- eagerly awaiting it.
If you make any decisions based on anything other than the final released product then you are a fool. Until then the marketing parasites are just wasting your time.
I'd suggest you find something more worthwhile to do with your life. Content free marketing drivel is a great way to waste a life.
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Adopt an astroturfer. Make their life hell.
haha, Obama is hot isn't he?!
When you snap out of being in denial we'll be there for you honey.
Leaks? Not hardly. You see, many persons who have followed my career on the screen and stage mistake me for a Jewess. This belief perhaps was strengthened when I married Ricardo Cortez, my third husband, the only one I ever really loved, and whom I am now trying to divorce.
Although I didn't find it out until almost a year after our marriage, Ric, instead of being a gallant Spanish caballero which I believed him, was the son of a kosher butcher, with a shop on First Avenue, New York City. His real name is Jacob Kranz.
You might ask what this has to do with Windows 7. Simple. Bill Gates's grandfather's name was not Gates, but Gatzkywicz. It was later anglicized to "Gates". In short, Gates is not a real American. He's a yid.
Like being an all around prick to complete strangers on Slashdot?
A content free post mod'ed up. I wonder how that happened?
Advising somebody to not waste their time on marketing drivel is not being prick. Whatever marketers might think.
More generally, just treating people who act like pricks as pricks. I'm more than happy to treat people who are civil to me civilly. Look at my previous posts for many examples.
Marketers as a general rule, and all astroturfers, are pricks. They reap what they sow. In addition if somebody is being suckered by their drivel then they need a reality check.
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Adopt an astroturfer. Make their life hell.
retard. Linux is written from scratch which means that there is very little connection to any of the bugs in Unix and its derivatives or variants. Bugs are specific to specific implementations. If Linux contains any code from Unix or any other commercial codebase it basically means "Goodbye GPL" and every linux vendor would get sued to oblivion.
Its so painfully obvious you've never worked on, let alone shipped anything written in C. What the fuck has happend to slashdot? (No, that was rhetorical) Its filled with windows fanboys and retarded linux cheerleaders... Damn I need to find another technical forum.