Star Windows 7: Microsoft Prepares Hardware Manufacturers for 7
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 6th Nov 2008 14:33 UTC
Windows Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) is in full swing this week, hot on the heels of the recent PDC. The main subject is, of course, Windows 7. This being a conference focused on hardware makers, Microsoft made a whole slew of announcements related to how Windows 7 will deal with hardware.
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lemur2
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2007-02-17

"Vista runs fine if your purpose for Vista is to: DRM-encumber consumers; restrict and control what they can do; take ownership of their own machines and their own data away from them; require them to upgrade to the latest hardware; lock them in to a sole-source software supplier and charge them a lot of money for the privelege.


My god, you've been drinking too much badvista kool-aid. "

You think so?

http://www.pcworld.com/article/153292/windows_what_is_next.html?tk=...

Despite a major push to sell the much-maligned Windows Vista, customers aren't buying. Nearly two years after Vista's release, Windows XP remains the standard desktop OS in business, and Microsoft has extended its availability three times (currently to August 2009) due to customer demand. Microsoft itself forecasts just 2 percent growth in Vista sales in early 2009, after lackluster sales in 2008. And that's after forcing customers to buy Vista to get XP "downgrades."


I'm not alone, it seems. Not by a long shot.

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