Windows 7 new OS in the works.

[TigerRaptor]

Yet this doesn't surprise me one bit.

http://www.techimo.com/newsapp/i19477.html

[BUBBALOU]

yeah did you hear the best part, it will have a yearly license. CHA-CHING M$

[DarkHorse]

MS demands you all use Linux.

Fuckin' pro strategy to make it happen too.

[roid]

well then i won't do it! if MS wants me to use Linux then i'm gonna go buy and use Windows on all my machines instead - just to show him.

take that Steve Balmer!

i'm a godamn genius

[Ferno]

cracked within the first week.

[JMEaT]

Yearly licence?

Omg.....

Also Windows 7 is still on track for a 2010 launch. MS said Gates was just \"Excited\" and the date he let out was wrong. LOL

[Top Wop]

Im interested in what the end product will be when Windows 7 ships, with all the talk about 'MinWin' and modularity. But for every step M$ takes, it takes 2 backwards with the talk of a yearly subscription.

Well, nothing The Pirate Bay couldn't handle...

[Aggressor Prime]

All you will have to do, most likely, is set up Windows 7 with the year 2100 in BIOS. Then set the clock back to normal time. That way, you won't have to worry until 2101.

[Floyd]

if it's based on system date verification, at least. and if it's not as dumb as not to check when the installation was performed...

[Sirius]

All you will have to do, most likely, is set up Windows 7 with the year 2100 in BIOS. Then set the clock back to normal time. That way, you won't have to worry until 2101.

Third-party software vendors can do better than that. Microsoft certainly could.

[Red_5]

Hopefully it won't suck as bad as Vista does.

[Duper]

Little late for THAT Red.

[TigerRaptor]

yeah did you hear the best part, it will have a yearly license. CHA-CHING M$

Since that is the case. Apple might use that to their advantage. Hello I'm a Mac and I'm a PC with a yearly subscription to Bill Gates bank account. Just insert your credit card to make me run.

[Red_5]

Little late for THAT Red.

Eh? I'm interpreting that as "Windows 7 will suck guaranteed." Am I right?

[Duper]

i meant that by charging a yearly fee, they pretty much ensured its long term demise and automatically pins the tail on the donkey with a huge sticky that reads \"5ux0rz!1!11\"

I really don't care well or not well it runs.

call me a griefer. :mregreen:

[Kyouryuu]

And I thought it was absurd for anti-virus companies to charge a yearly fee. That's just absurd. If Microsoft goes to a subscription model, they can count me out of updating to their OS.

[Ferno]

And I thought it was absurd for anti-virus companies to charge a yearly fee. That's just absurd. If Microsoft goes to a subscription model, they can count me out of updating to their OS.

"Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From this time forward, you will service us" - Microsoft.

[Top Wop]

All you will have to do, most likely, is set up Windows 7 with the year 2100 in BIOS. Then set the clock back to normal time. That way, you won't have to worry until 2101.

You're awfully silly.

[FunkyStickman]

Windows? What's that?

I made the switch long ago... no regrets.

[Duper]

I get the feeling they will be going the way of IBM soon. ... well maybe a bit less than soon.

.er.. what do you call that?

[fliptw]

I get the feeling they will be going the way of IBM soon. ... well maybe a bit less than soon.

.er.. what do you call that?

You mean getting out of the personal PC market to concentrate on mainframes, software services, hardware design and research?

[Duper]

something like that.

I was thinking more like collapsing under the weight of its own mass and turning into a huge black hole.

[SirWinner]

If I could give feedback that Macrosoft er Microsoft would actually read:

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From Windows Users and Computer Programmers all over the world...

Dear Mr. Bill Gates a/k/a Mr. Microsoft, et al:

Please FIX Windows Vista so that programs that worked properly in Windows XP (and previous versions) will still work in Vista.

Forced version upgrades, while interesting, don't address the issues that need to be fixed before pushing out another very buggy version Windows!

Fix the major timing issues that persist even in the NEWER versions of Windows also! (Optimize your compiled C Code using well placed and well rewritten Assembly Code!)

Geez!

---

We have many software programs that we have written that literally have \"rights\" issues using \"Standard\" Windows Calls in Windows Vista! DOH!

For example, one function that counts how many copies of my software that is running in the same PC crashes the program. Yet in Windows XP, this function works correctly.

The function lets the program to determine that if MORE than one copy of the same program is running, to cleanly exit itself to prevent sharing and other issues if 2 or more copies of it are running. I also use this to find out if a program that needs to get launched is or isn't already running.

Throwing \"More Processor Power and More Processor Memory\" at the Windows Timing issues do not resolve those issues!

Wheeeeeee!

SirWinner

[Warlock]

yeah did you hear the best part, it will have a yearly license. CHA-CHING M$

wheres the proof of that. Just Anti MS bs there i say

[TechPro]

oooold pic from back in the early Win 3 days...

[Top Wop]

(Optimize your compiled C Code using well placed and well rewritten Assembly Code!)

Optimize? Microsoft?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! Oh god thats a good one. Optimize is a dirty word at M$.

I bet the heads of the software engineers would explode upon seeing assembly code.

[Sirius]

...obviously.

In all seriousness, though, I doubt they wrote things like the DirectX API entirely in high-level language.

[SirWinner]

Optimize? Microsoft?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!!! Oh god thats a good one. Optimize is a dirty word at M$.

I bet the heads of the software engineers would explode upon seeing assembly code.

Meant that as a joke... Microsoft seems to have forgotten their roots when it comes to writing software.

Before they became the giant that they are today, they USED to use a LOT of assembly language.

The old versions of Basic before the various basic compilers used assembly code to keep the code small and a lot more efficient. Same went for the various versions of MS-DOS.

The other thing that Microsoft seems to forget is that not ALL programmers use C/C++/C# to write world class software using Visual Studio's compilers. So they only seem to show C examples in the last few years for DirectX calls, and the various Software Development Kits (SDK's), etc.

Oh well, the midget that became a giant forgot their roots.

Therefore the classic \"Microsoft Model of Software Releases\" came into being... In other words, release software BEFORE it is truly ready for prime time then make the end-users suffer until they finally get to service pack 2 (SP2) or beyond before the software is close to what it SHOULD have been. Then about that time we get to deal with the NEW version of windows that still isn't ready to go when released.

They seem to do the same of the games that they release.

I remember how poorly the Net Code worked in Mech Warrior 4. If someone entered or exited a game after the game was launched, the game lagged so bad that even on a leading edge PC all you would see was a slideshow until the person was fully entered into battle or exited from the battle.

Typical Microsoft.

Wishful thinking, I know.

[Ferno]

what do you expect? MS uses us as unpaid beta testers.