Go for it. I do press for Wikipedia in the UK... and by God it was a vast improvement when we went mainstream. Proper journalists can't work any technology more complicated than scissors, but at least they've heard of "journalism" in passing and don't equate it to "Microsoft sent me a cool laptop."
Windows 7 is a polished Vista. That said, I'm testing the beta in a 512MB VirtualBox and it's slow to start up, but surprisingly responsive and usable. And ridiculously pretty.
I have seen the future: Windows $NEXT_VERSION build $MOCKUP.
I tried it on a low-end netbook with four Core 2 Duo chips and only 8 gig of memory, and trust me: $NEXT_VERSION is shaping up to be one heck of a product.
WordPad and Paint have seen major overhauls to their user interfaces. Forget the freetards and their "distros" full of all sorts of useless shovelware like "FireFox" and "OpenOffice" and, haha, "GIMP"! - the bundled software with Windows $NEXT_VERSION is clear, simple, sparse and to-the-point. The much-loved $HATED user interface from Office $HATED_VERSION is now part of WordPad and Paint!
The controversial Digital Rights Management system in Vista has been worked over, with user-downloadable "tilt bits," which you can configure to your own liking. It'll require every user to supply a blood sample for DNA analysis, and the beta nearly took my finger off, but of course that's only if you want to play premium content. The Blu-Ray(tm) of Battlefield Earth was unbelievable on this operating system.
A release candidate should be available by the end of this year. There's just no way that Steve "Trains Run On Time" Ballmer will miss the Christmas deadline. The final release should leave the midnight queues on Vista release day - the street riots, the water cannons, the rubber bullets - in the shade.
I am so excited about $NEXT_VERSION of Windows. It will go beyond just solving all of the problems with $CURRENT_VERSION, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, those are all fixed in $NEXT_VERSION. And they're finally ridding themselves of $ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF.
Also, there'll be $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM. It'll be awesome!
I wonder how $NEXT_VERSION will compare to $NEXT_NEXT_VERSION.
I've been running it in a VirtualBox with 512MB memory allocated. It takes a while to start up, but once it's up it's very usable and responsive. And very pretty.
One small Wine sub-project: contacting developers whose apps work perfectly under Wine and asking them to list Wine as a supported platform. Starting slow but getting there.
Yep. But old versions are fixed targets. And they can't actually break everything in one go themselves. Microsoft's backwards-compatibility millstone is why Wine is now usable.
It's the particular way it does it, differently to every other client. I see in comments below that you haven't used it yourself. It may not suit you - some people really hate it - but it does suit me, so I'm very pleased at this announcement. I would quite like a Thunderbird variation that did the same job, but Gmail really did do something new with the interface.
I like the Gmail interface much more than Thunderbird. Using Thunderbird, I never kept up with mailing lists; now I do. It's the conversation threading and that mail has three states (unread, read and archived) rather than two (unread and read).
Oh, certainly. My point was really that this isn't going to work and hasn't been working. The closest it's come to working is the XBox 360 - a game box that's good and popular in its own right - but they cut so many corners in manufacture that this joke is immediately comprehensible, and yet again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Microsoft has to learn the scary and difficult art of making things that are actually good and that people actually want because they're good. The closest I've seen to awareness of this is Songsmith - which is hardly company-saving stuff, but will show them that they can in fact sell a fun and cool toy because it's fun and cool.
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Go for it. I do press for Wikipedia in the UK ... and by God it was a vast improvement when we went mainstream. Proper journalists can't work any technology more complicated than scissors, but at least they've heard of "journalism" in passing and don't equate it to "Microsoft sent me a cool laptop."
Indeed. Hopefully he can get back to being the necessary dose of principled asshole.
I'd regard 2008 as an inexplicable blip in an otherwise excellent career.
http://wikileaks.org/wiki/Advisory_Board
*applause* I look forward to it!
Attest to cognition. Analyst noise is space-filler and wank and not to be taken seriously.
At this point it helps that Canonical is entirely privately held by a smart billionaire.
Was 2008. Microsoft blamed the failure to meet their latest quarterly numbers on netbooks, i.e. having to sell XP cheap to actually compete for once.
Citation needed.
I don't see how you could possibly doubt the word of Steve "Trains Run On Time" Ballmer!
(Don't talk about how Steve lights up lightbulbs with his mouth, though.)
Windows 7 is a polished Vista. That said, I'm testing the beta in a 512MB VirtualBox and it's slow to start up, but surprisingly responsive and usable. And ridiculously pretty.
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I have seen the future: Windows $NEXT_VERSION build $MOCKUP.
I tried it on a low-end netbook with four Core 2 Duo chips and only 8 gig of memory, and trust me: $NEXT_VERSION is shaping up to be one heck of a product.
WordPad and Paint have seen major overhauls to their user interfaces. Forget the freetards and their "distros" full of all sorts of useless shovelware like "FireFox" and "OpenOffice" and, haha, "GIMP"! - the bundled software with Windows $NEXT_VERSION is clear, simple, sparse and to-the-point. The much-loved $HATED user interface from Office $HATED_VERSION is now part of WordPad and Paint!
The controversial Digital Rights Management system in Vista has been worked over, with user-downloadable "tilt bits," which you can configure to your own liking. It'll require every user to supply a blood sample for DNA analysis, and the beta nearly took my finger off, but of course that's only if you want to play premium content. The Blu-Ray(tm) of Battlefield Earth was unbelievable on this operating system.
A release candidate should be available by the end of this year. There's just no way that Steve "Trains Run On Time" Ballmer will miss the Christmas deadline. The final release should leave the midnight queues on Vista release day - the street riots, the water cannons, the rubber bullets - in the shade.
I am so excited about $NEXT_VERSION of Windows. It will go beyond just solving all of the problems with $CURRENT_VERSION, it will be an entirely new paradigm. Forget about security problems, those are all fixed in $NEXT_VERSION. And they're finally ridding themselves of $ANCIENT_LEGACY_STUFF.
Also, there'll be $DATABASE_FILESYSTEM. It'll be awesome!
I wonder how $NEXT_VERSION will compare to $NEXT_NEXT_VERSION.
I've been running it in a VirtualBox with 512MB memory allocated. It takes a while to start up, but once it's up it's very usable and responsive. And very pretty.
The Year of Linux on the Desktop was 2008.
One small Wine sub-project: contacting developers whose apps work perfectly under Wine and asking them to list Wine as a supported platform. Starting slow but getting there.
Yep. But old versions are fixed targets. And they can't actually break everything in one go themselves. Microsoft's backwards-compatibility millstone is why Wine is now usable.
It's the particular way it does it, differently to every other client. I see in comments below that you haven't used it yourself. It may not suit you - some people really hate it - but it does suit me, so I'm very pleased at this announcement. I would quite like a Thunderbird variation that did the same job, but Gmail really did do something new with the interface.
I like the Gmail interface much more than Thunderbird. Using Thunderbird, I never kept up with mailing lists; now I do. It's the conversation threading and that mail has three states (unread, read and archived) rather than two (unread and read).
"Finally, if it made a serious difference, we'd see Microsoft trying to buy their way into it."
MS just bought Powerset, whose showcase product is a Wikipedia search engine.
"Don't hold your breath expecting MS to care about Wikipedia or OGG any time soon."
Which is why MS bought Powerset, whose big show piece is Wikipedia search.
Monty is that guy. The main problem Ogg Vorbis and Theora have had is that he doesn't scale.
Yes, I'd just forgotten which particular fundie senator it was this season :-)
At least Harradine was relatively sane on non-fundie matters. This Fielding fellow doesn't actually appear to be.
Oh, certainly. My point was really that this isn't going to work and hasn't been working. The closest it's come to working is the XBox 360 - a game box that's good and popular in its own right - but they cut so many corners in manufacture that this joke is immediately comprehensible, and yet again snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Microsoft has to learn the scary and difficult art of making things that are actually good and that people actually want because they're good. The closest I've seen to awareness of this is Songsmith - which is hardly company-saving stuff, but will show them that they can in fact sell a fun and cool toy because it's fun and cool.
I don't see what anyone could possibly think was wrong with the Zune logo.
As an Australian, I can tell you that the comment is entirely accurate and in no way trolling.