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1. climacs

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   04/21, 12:25am | report spam | close reply

   snicker

   too easy of a target.

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1. lorca2770

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   Since 1995

   Since 1995 Microsoft has been employing the same tactic, Stop the press we are coming with something better and more advanced.
   They did it with IBM, Taligent, etc..., it became absolutely ridiculous.
   
   Oh well, the new generations perhaps don`t know, but that was the method.... :)

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1. Bobfozz

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   problem is...

   their announcements these days don't scare anyone or stop anyone.

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1. Monde

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   04/21, 03:27am | report spam | (1 reply) close | reply

   Yawn

   Windows 8?
   
   Will it address the thousands of viruses & worms? Will it cease MS's propensity to copy the Mac OS? Will they prevent it from being a resource hog? Will they charge an arm and leg for it in a Brobdingnagian pricing scheme? Will they loose Ballmer as head honcho?
   
   Doubt it. Apple will likely have 3 iterations of it's OS before day one of Windows 8.
   
   Yawn.

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1. rytc

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   04/21, 04:05am | report spam | close reply

   Windows 8

   Of course they are already working on Windows 8 - it's all the parts that they couldn't shoe-horn onto Windows 7......

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1. Will C

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   04/21, 05:04am | report spam | close reply

   Is anyone surprised?

   This is nothing to do with MS's product quality - it is typical business practice (I am not defending it)
   Why make a product which is perfect which will sell once and then never be able to sell anything else again?
   Most businesses these days operate as money dredgers, their product is ususally just a side effect sadly.

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1. Wingsy

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   04/21, 06:28am | report spam | close reply

   Already vs Soon

   MacNN needs to read the dictionary definitions for the words "soon" and "already". One refers to the future and one to the present.

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1. Constable Odo

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   04/21, 08:21am | report spam | close reply

   Fine...

   As long as they continue to support Windows XP until Windows 8 comes out, I'll be satisfied. MS is really looking far ahead into the future. Wouldn't Windows 7 be around for at least a few years? I wouldn't think they'd need Windows 8 until about 2012.
   
   It's just that Windows XP runs so well for my use, I don't really see the point of upgrading. I'll grab Windows 7 when it hits the streets, and I hope it's an improvement over XP in speed, but if it isn't, I'll dump it quickly.

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1. msuper69

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   04/21, 09:05am | report spam | (1 reply) close | reply

   Nothing has changed...

   Unless MS completely rewrites the Windows kernel from scratch with security first and foremost in the design (ala UNIX), it will still be lipstick on a pig.

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1. Rolando_jose

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   04/21, 09:15am | report spam | close reply

   Hmmm

   Wouldn't be easier to concentrate on making a "great" windows 7 and then improve on it?

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1. Rolando_jose

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   04/21, 09:16am | report spam | close reply

   Hmmm

   Wouldn't be easier to concentrate on making a "great" windows 7 and then improve on it?

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1. JeffHarris

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   04/21, 09:23am | report spam | close reply

   7 years to Nowhere

   Microsoft had what, 7 years and what did they release? Vista.
   
   What's their interim solution to a bad product?
   
   NOT rewrite it from the ground up.
   NOT ditch legacy support for obsolete technologies.
   Put a new skin on it (like an mp3 player software), change the name to Windows 7 and market the bejeezus out of it.
   
   For Microsoft, MARKETING is their innovation.

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1. luckyday

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   04/21, 12:01pm | report spam | close reply

   Announcement?

   This isn't an announcement. Its a listing for employment. So they are hiring people for the next version of windows several years before release. You don't think that is pretty common? Windows 7 is basically done. Why wouldn't they start on the next OS? You guys don't even read. You just see what you want to see.
   
   You know who the real winner is? electronista and macnn. All they have to do is post these bogus articles about "______ is an iphone killer" or "_____ windows" and you guys go crazy and flood the site. They must make a ton of advertising revenue by mentioning microsoft's name alone.

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1. lamewing

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   04/21, 12:18pm | report spam | close reply

   What about Apple?

   While Apple doesn't choose to change the title of their OS, how many BIG updates have been made since 2001? Panther, Tiger, Leopard, and soon Snow Leopard.
   
   How is it okay for Apple to continue to work on the future but not MS? Would it be different if MS had given incremental names to the upgrades?
   
   I use both OSX Leopard and Vista and both work fine for me. Now if OSX had REAL HANDWRITING RECOGNITION that was on par with Vista I might switch completely. I need the HR for Japanese input, especially when I can write in a kanji that I don't know how to pronounce yet!!!

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1. Deal

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   04/21, 02:53pm | report spam | close reply

   Keep in mind...

   It says, they appear to be working on it. "Look, here come the journalists... put away your iPods and look busy!"
   
   MS says they "could" have Windows 7 on people's computers by September... it all depends on how many people they can force to use it. "C'mon, just open your mouth and plug your nose... it won't be so bad."

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1. Gates

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   08/11, 01:42pm | report spam | close reply

   Windows 8!

   I don't think they'd NEED Windows 8 until 2012, but I think they should keep fighting to keep position above google, linux, apple, etc etc ..
   
   technology changes so fast!
   
   ~
   Gates
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