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News Windows 7 a "minor release"

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  1. CardJoe

    CardJoe Freelance Journalist

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  2. liratheal

    liratheal Sharing is Caring

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    Windows 7 has managed over the months to confuse the ever loving crap out of me.

    I think I'll be waiting for launch before I make up my mind about it..
     
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  3. wyx087

    wyx087 Homeworld 3 is happening!!

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    i knew it, Vista is a great OS, MS has already worked out most of the kinks. so 7 will be an feature enhanced version of Vista.

    just like 2000 was a huge step forward from NT and XP is like a feature enhanced version of 2000.

    people never stop to hope, and they are always disappointed. just use the latest version and be happy with it!
     
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  4. Breach

    Breach Modding in Exile

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    Ugh, MS cleary does not care about their star product anymore.
     
    Breach, 19 Aug 2008
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  5. steveo_mcg

    steveo_mcg What's a Dremel?

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    Course they do, thats why they're trying to convince people to upgrade now and now wait for their next beta release
     
    steveo_mcg, 19 Aug 2008
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  6. no-spam

    no-spam What's a Dremel?

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    At my work MS are so desperate to get users locked in to Windows they have offered Office 2007 for £17.
    But OpenOffice is free and runs on Windows and Linux, so why bother?
     
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  7. LeMaltor

    LeMaltor >^_^

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    I can wait for 8.
     
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  8. -pattoe-

    -pattoe- What's a Dremel?

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    I'd be very interested to see what happens in October. Vista is good, lots of improvements have been released since its birth. I still favor XP / 2000 on a commercial level however due to the lower requirements and the reliability.
     
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  9. MgM*

    MgM* What's a Dremel?

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    All MS needs to do now is to fix those compatibility issues with vista (hope fully 7) then wer' talking...
     
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  10. BentAnat

    BentAnat Software Dev

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    please not that MS ALSO said that Windows 7 for desktops IS a major release - it's the server side that's not one:
    from news.cnet
     
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  11. Romirez

    Romirez What's a Dremel?

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    Unless 7 is considerably less of a resource hog than Vista, I'll be sticking with XP. So I guess I won't be upgrading for a long time.
     
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  12. adamc

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    i don't know what everyone's problem with vista is, I've been running vista x64 for almost a year and it has performed flawlessly.
     
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  13. wyx087

    wyx087 Homeworld 3 is happening!!

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    im sorry. you'd better go back to winDOS since XP is also too resource hog for that matter.

    7 will be same or more resource "hog".
     
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  14. BentAnat

    BentAnat Software Dev

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    Windows 7 will be a Vista with some bugfixes, and user experience facelifts... sortof like 98 was when compared to 95.
    basically, a smoother, better vista (not that i mind vista. Have been running it since it came out)... at least that's my suspicion
     
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  15. DXR_13KE

    DXR_13KE BananaModder

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  16. p3n

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    Think i'll continue my plan to get a cent2 mbp and join the unix goodness that is OSX ... I can put Vista on bootcamp for remembering how crappy MS are at innovation.
     
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  17. Xir

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    "sortof like 98 was when compared to 95."

    Hmmm 98SE ran pretty stable....certainly compared to 95...
    (and also faster/more stable than XP before SP1)
     
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  18. Timmy_the_tortoise

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    I'm happy with Vista.
     
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  19. Romirez

    Romirez What's a Dremel?

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    DOS, however, doesnt run what I want to use, XP does. See my point? No point upgrading to something that uses more of my system for no gain to me.
     
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