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[News] [Rival] How Vista Ruined Windows

  • Subject: [News] [Rival] How Vista Ruined Windows
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 07:21:58 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
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In the Year 2020

,----[ Quote ] 
| "It was Vista! Vista ruined us," The Americans told their children this over 
| and over, as a scary story similar to tales of the boogey man. But it wasn't 
| Vista. Vista was their chance to set themselves free from the mega corp 
| spawn. Vista had been the mega corp's sickly child; it was the symbolic 
| representation of the mega corp's decadent nature: too expensive, too slow, 
| requires too much hardware. The Americans had their opportunity to say they 
| had enough, as the other nations had done, to end the great war before it 
| began, and step inside the world of Linux, nestled in the valley of open 
| source. Now, in hindsight, in the year 2020, the Americans finally saw where 
| fate had brought them -- into oblivion.         
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http://linuxhow2.com/Feature_Articles/In_the_Year_2020.html

There is a new announcement from Microsoft's PR which implies that Windows 7 is
just "vocation". They haven't a f* clue what to do with Vista codebase.
Evolve? Fix heaps of bugs and try to maintain too broken codebases? Home
Server and Server 2008 are already a Vista-scale disasters disguised by hype
and 'marketing'.

Gates's endless dumping at the moment is sign that Microsoft fighting amid big
problems at the moment. It's bluffing in the finance department too.


Related:

Microsoft : Windows 7 still in planning stage and will take approximately 3
years to develop.
 
,----[ Quote ]
| January 26th, 2008. Looks like Microsoft is NOT planning to release Windows 7 
| in 2009. Microsoft's official response, by an email dated 26th January, 2008, 
| to WinVistaClub states that Windows 7 is still in the planning stage and will 
| take approximately 3 years to develop.    
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http://www.winvistaclub.com/i7.html


Impossible thing #1: Developing efficient, well engineered free software like
Debian GNU/Linux

,----[ Quote ]
| So, not only does free software represent a vast amount of effort, but it is 
| apparently very well-engineered and efficient effort leading to an even 
| higher use value than equivalent proprietary products! Not only can free 
| software manage large, complex projects, but it appears to do it better than 
| proprietary methods.    
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http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/Impossible_thing_1_developing_efficient_free_software_like_gnu_debian

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