Star Microsoft to Abandon Vista, Fast Track Windows 7?
Linked by David Adams on Wed 23rd Apr 2008 17:23 UTC
Windows Hot on the heels of our previous story outlining the fiasco that Vista's release has been, TechRepublic's Jason Hiner predicts that Microsoft is aware of its blunder and will respond by making a release of Windows 7 ahead of schedule (primarily by overhauling Vista and calling it Windows 7, it seems) in order to encourage its enterprise clients to upgrade directly from XP to Windows 7.
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beosfrance
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2007-04-10

To follow this off-topic post: feel free to eat a flatscreen if you want ;) (I heard LG are the tastiest). Take car enot to drink gasoline with it ;)

I still have my first computer screen: 14" 800x600, which is 13 years old and still working. Since this one, i never kept one more than 2 years. On the other hand my Samsung P35 laptop is still up n' running with 3h30 of battery after 4 years of daily use.

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Doc Pain Member since:
2006-10-08

This is getting funny...

To follow this off-topic post: feel free to eat a flatscreen if you want ;) (I heard LG are the tastiest). Take car enot to drink gasoline with it ;)


What do you think I am - a car? Well, I think flatscreen monitors would be delicious if I was a garbage shredder. :-)

I still have my first computer screen: 14" 800x600, which is 13 years old and still working. Since this one, i never kept one more than 2 years.


Woah... that's really strange. Allthough my equipment at home (oldest x86 PC stuff from approx. 1992, newest from 2005) is to be considered "outdated", it works - it worked over many years and I think it will continue to do so. Maybe the older stuff is really reliable. But this does not fit into the "throw away society", I know, so I'm hurting the industry and the government while I refuse to buy something new while the old stuff still runs perfectly. Shame on me. :-)

On the other hand my Samsung P35 laptop is still up n' running with 3h30 of battery after 4 years of daily use.


Wow, that's something I usually just hear about Apple (iBook G4) hardware... in most cases, it's about how you trat the charging cycles of the battery. The opposite I've got at hand, too: A Toshiba Satelite class notebook, not older than 3 years, battery dead, doesn't even accept any loading current.

And continuing such trends, consumers meanwhile have accepted that new PCs are loud, new OSes are slow, and all the stuff obsoletes itself in a few years, so it's neccessary to buy something new even if it's not needed.

For further entertainment, read this before shopping:
http://www.rinkworks.com/stupid/cs_stupsales.shtml

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helf Member since:
2005-07-06

My NeXT is 16 years old, almost 17, and it still works perfectly ;)

my Nec Versa P/75 laptop is like 12 years old and it works perfectly still... Various other old products that still run perfectly. But family members have bought computers and printers and the like in the last two years and have them suddenly just up and die. It's pathetic ;) Oh well, guess companies have to insure income somehow...

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