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____/ Linonut on Saturday 26 July 2008 14:05 : \____
> * Rex Ballard peremptorily fired off this memo:
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>> On Jul 25, 4:23 pm, Linonut <lino...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> We should be seeing Windows 7.0, with some jazzy trade name, sometime
>> in 2012, and Microsoft might have something as functional as Red Hat
>> Enterprise Linux 4 by 2018.
>
> Rewriting your operating system every few years is no way to keep up
> with Linux. That's why Microsoft needs the monopoly.
>
> I was in Office Depot the other day looking at touchscreen desktop model
> by HP, with Vista. It is a much better experience than their laptops,
> and handled me opening a lot of apps.
>
> It had a couple problems. Some of the applications came up maximized,
> and the bevelling on the monitor made it difficult to Restore the
> window. The Start menu would annoyingly disappear while I was trying to
> decide which entry to click, but I'm sure that's an option somewhere.
>
> Eventually the technology and bug-fixes will help Vista catch on. I
> don't expect it to be much less clumsy than XP, though.
They try to sell an overpriced 'dream' (remember the Ferrari laptop bribes?).
That's why the already-dead (on arrival) Surface was made. It's just s bubble
and a last attempt from Gate at pseudo glory.
Microsoft's Robbie Bach 'thought about killing' Surface
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| "I didn't have a clear line of sight on what the business model was," Bach
| said. "I was always asking myself whether we could afford to keep it."
|
| Surface did have one important cheerleader: Bill Gates.
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