Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Dec 2007 14:29 UTC, submitted by Dan Warne
Windows 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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RE: Cut the cords
by bert64 on Fri 14th Dec 2007 21:30 UTC in reply to "Cut the cords"
bert64
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2007-04-23

They need backwards compatibility, windows being the only platform that can run people's proprietary apps is the biggest thing keeping microsoft alive. If users were forced to migrate anyway, then what's to stop them migrating to cheaper alternatives?

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