Re: Microsoft's "New Coke"

thunder@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sat, 05 Apr 2008 23:24:49 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


Accodring to Bill Gates, the next browser/op system is in the works and
a beta will be released by Fall. They intend the release to go live in
another year or thereabouts.

Vista will be the 21st Century version of ME.

Only if Windows 7 is better than Vista. Want to see what the next version of Windows will be like? Look here:

http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/srg/netos/xen/


Seriously, MS has gotten itself into a box. Depending on an OS as your main source of income, is a dead paradigm. With the new multi-core processors, virtualalization will kill MSs' cash cow.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070211-8811.html

http://www.osnews.com/story/18804/Thoughts-on-MinWin-Windows-7-and-Virtualisation/



By the time the next version of Windoze comes out, LINUX will be what, ..00001% of desktops?

I have a feeling the Apple OS X system is what will keep LINUX on the desktops of computer hobbyists.

After a few weeks with OS X, I can *almost* navigate it, but there are lots of differences in manipulating files between the Mac stuff and any Windoze OS.

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