APCMag sums up the information we already have on Windows 7. "We're still in the long dark before 7's dawn, but the earliest signs are encouraging: a new streamlined kernel, an inbuilt VM for running old software, a revised and simplified UI... There's every chance that Microsoft intends Windows 7 to rise from the ashes of Vista and be what Mac OS X was for Apple."
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Member since:2006-05-26
Wow, what stupid arguments! With putting in a VM to run old stuff, Microsoft wouldn't have that much of an issue, if any, even worth mentioning. Wait a minute, that's what WoW (Windows on Windows) is, which they've done for 16 bit applications in 32 bit versions of Windows, and now they've done it for 32 bit applications in Win64. Bzzt, you're horribly wrong there. They do need to make a big change so that the base operating system doesn't bend over backwards for backwards compatibility, though.
Now, your foolish assertions that they'd be sued for advancing the state of Windows, and breaking all the past software? You clearly don't live in the real world: software companies and developers break software all the time, including Linux and every other OS, sooner or later, and Linux is such a moving target that without source code to compile, there's a large amount that wouldn't even be binary compatible for very long, and even with source code to compile, it doesn't ensure that the software it compiles against still works as the application was written with in mind, so it may still break. I don't see any Linux vendors or other software developers getting sued for that. Also, quite simply, no OS manufacturer/developer puts a gun to your head and says "You must upgrade to our latest OS version or we'll kill you!" and as such, everyone has the option to keep on using old OS's on old computers. Heck, there are still people using C-64's on a regular basis.
You clearly have no concept of how the legal system works, or about how software development works, so you'd be far better off taking your silly troll attempts elsewhere than a forum where many people do know how that all works from working in the field.
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2007-06-26
Here is the simple logic of `let them go` backward compatibility goes south for MicroSlop. They are tied into nearly ninety-five percent of the global market.
If, and I say if, Micro was ever to pull the same `conversion` to a more advanced operation system then it would open itself to a global onslaught of lawsuits or legal actions which itself would not survive.
For example, if backups from a huge set of individual entities, companies, corporations, governments and little ole Billy Bob running his biz in Arkansas were based on Windows back-up and Micro broke compatibility with that format - then - all the above could sue Bill and his crew of billionaires.
This does not mention the stockholders looking to splay the privates of the executives who came up with a `new` path for the operating system.
Granted, this is only a very simple example but the logic stands. The `screw the user base` is not a solid business plan.