"No more gaps" says Steve Ballmer

User Comments: 7

1. July 28, 2006 8:18 PM
   djleyo said:
   ill believe until i see it
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2. July 28, 2006 10:42 PM
   DragonMaster said:
   If I see new Windows releases coming out as fast as Fedora Core (Every 6 months), I'll be impressed.
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3. July 29, 2006 12:17 AM
   zephead said:
   "requires the cost"? god forbid microsoft should make a slightly less outrageous profit...
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4. July 29, 2006 5:06 AM
   nic said:
   I don't want to see my OS obsolete too quickly, as this will mean extra expense for software/hardware upgrades. A 3 year cycle seems good to me, so long as service packs and security patches keep coming as and when required.
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5. July 29, 2006 8:31 AM
   DragonMaster said:
   They don't need to require twice as powerful hardware everytimes. New FC releases are just more efficiently coded and have a few more features, that's all!If MS could just start a new OS from zero without backwards compatibility (And the bugs they need to add for this), Windows would be so much faster! (They could add better backwards compatibility than before with a virtual machine and the real old OS files - that you could install as an option)
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6. July 29, 2006 11:47 AM
   spike said:
   Well, Any new OS would have to be backwards compatible with XP and probably 2000, but no more than that. I rather think that it's time to ditch the old and bring in the new - isn't that what Vista is all about though?
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7. July 30, 2006 1:49 PM
   DragonMaster said:
   They add features, and probably threw out some of the backwards compatibility. I don't know if it should natively be able to work with XP, unless XP-compatibility wouldn't require the addition of too much bugs -> Some apps need some older Windows bugs to work... -> Why Windows is so buggy. The switch to UNIX for MacOS requiered people to get new apps (Or use OS 9 in a virtual machine) and that's why it's more stable. (Well, actually, I already saw OS X crash, but anyways...)With Linux, people can correct all the problems that older applications have since they got the source to make them compatible with newer compilers, kernels and architectures. Commercial programs for Linux that don't have the source available are a bunch of trouble since the companies don't really support them -- or at least don't compile the 64-bit versions, which causes problems with Mozilla browsers. (Flash when it was Macromedia, Sun Java, Adobe Reader)
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