Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 18th Mar 2008 21:41 UTC
"Perhaps it's a sign of how desperate some sites are to get linked by the big aggregators, or perhaps it's a sign of how disappointed people are with Windows Vista - or both - but the endless stories about Windows 7's 'official launch' are silly and (more importantly) quite misleading."
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Member since:2006-02-05
Member since:2006-01-02
Member since:2005-07-06
Uhm, I think you're misreading what minwin is about.
Hey, don't rain on his parade. This forum is filled with clueless fanboys who will jump onto any damn thing that seems to have a cool name. We have people here who love jumping around like kids with ADD chanting "minwin" and other code names. Let these children have their fun - soon enough they'll become old, bitter and cynical just like me - and realise everything sucks.
Member since:2005-08-07
Even though I like Vista to some degree, the prospect of a near-from-scratch, Virtualized OS is very enticing, and made all the sweeter with MinWin.
Someone else has already pointed out you seem to be confused on exactly what MinWin actually does, so I'll just point out the other flaw with your reasoning....
What makes you so sure MinWin will ship as a part of Windows Seven? Go back and look at all the missing features from Longhorn that somehow never made it into Vista. Look at this latest service pack, which has added none of them back to the operating system.
Sorry but when it comes to Microsoft I've learned to be very skeptical, I'll believe it when I see it released as a part of their official offerings and not a moment before.
--bornagainpenguin
Member since:2007-02-27
Microsoft never said MinWin will be part of Windows 7, MinWin is just a research project.
What Microsoft said is that Windows 7 will not have a major architectural change, the architecture will be the same of Vista. Vista already had a major Windows architectural change (kernel improvements, memory managment, new fair processes scheduling, I/O system, audio and tcp/ip stacks, graphics subsystem with user mode drivers, security, services hardening, etc).
Edited 2008-03-19 16:10 UTC
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2007-12-20
Even though I like Vista to some degree, the prospect of a near-from-scratch, Virtualized OS is very enticing, and made all the sweeter with MinWin.