____/ Mark Kent on Tuesday 08 January 2008 07:10 : \____
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Microsoft's Continued Vista Backpedaling
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>>| I was amused to hear that Microsoft has come up with a licensing
>>| arrangement for refurbished machines, presumably to get more fees but also
>>| to keep people from passing along the old OS. On most old machines, the OS
>>| is probably outdated or filled with spyware. Whatever the rationale, and
>>| whatever Microsoft hopes to get out of this idea, what fascinated me is
>>| that the OS is going to be a version of XP, not a sleeker version of Vista.
>> `----
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>> http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2704,2243187,00.asp
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>> Too little, too late (2001).
>
> Why would you want a 6-year-old copy of windows when you could have a
> brand-new, up to date, copy of a linux distro?
Some predict that XP Lite will come in 2008. I think they are already killing
Windows CE, but I can't recall for sure.
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~~ Best of wishes
"Don’t encourage new, cross-platform Java classes, especially don’t help get
great Win 32 implementations written/deployed. (..) Do encourage fragmentation
of the Java classlib space."
--Ben Slivka, Microsoft
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