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Perfect timing I say....]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/
Im thinking this is the end of microsofts pattern of

bad-good-bad

when it comes to there operating systems :-) if windows 8 has the stability of 7 plus some new innovative new features... they definetley have my money :-)]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 11:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 11th 2010 3:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/]]>Feb 13th 2010 11:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/
Everyone goes bat shit, and drops all other operating systems for Windows. Microsoft rules the world.]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Please explain why this is good for us in layman terms?]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/It's a joke.]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/
MSFT ruling the world would cause it to collapse. ]]>Feb 11th 2010 10:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Well, I hope openness is prioritized as a whole. Or else they have again gone into macland, where macs already rule :(]]>Feb 11th 2010 4:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/had to say it...

For some reasons (or from experience) the final product is going to be somewhat underwhelming.
]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:13PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/I only bother with every other Windows release, so I'll wait for Windows 9.]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/They have too many people on too many teams trying to cram too many "features" in. It's like most software products that get too big. Nobody talks to each other, or looks at what they're doing to say, "Is this really something I'm missing from my current computing experience?" Wheels are reinvented, compatabilities are broken, and things are made pretty, instead of good.]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 6:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 6:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Are you kidding? They were already developing Vista by the time XP was released. And before Windows 7 was even put into a release candidate/beta, they were already busy developing Windows 8.]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/It is sort of like how the new trend in film making is to film a movie AND its sequel simultaneously.]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Nope, actually it's sort of what software developing companies always do.
Look at Half-Life: They thought of all features that would be nice/cool to have, and programmed at least a raw version of it. Then, at a certain point in time, they decide it's time to start cleaning up and making something shippable (Half-Life 1).
At that point they decided for each particular feature if it was at all going to run on the current hardware, and secondly how important it was to have it in the final product. The features that made the cut went into the sourcecode-trunk 'Gold-Src', and the others didn't, staying in the 'Src'-trunk.
Once Half-Life was shipped, they just continued what they were doing by fixing and finishing everything that was in 'Src', and started adding new things to that. Then they came to the point of starting to think of what could and should definitely be in Half-Life 2, and they worked those things out, leaving the rest for later. And so on, and so on.

Same goes for Windows development. Except for with Longhorn/Vista they didn't manage it properly and they had to start over. That's why Vista took so long to come out while every other version of Windows came 2-3 years after the previous.]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/
Planning on major tech projects start way before you know it.

Like they said on Vista by the time XP launched. Nintendo does the same thing. They're already planning the console AFTER the SUCCESSOR to the Wii

That's two consoles down.


Ideas and concepts are thrown in and they develop those concepts over time.]]>Feb 10th 2010 8:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 6:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 6:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/I'm just looking forward to the day I'll look back on this post and think, "remember that rumour?"]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Hey, I looked back on the skeptical iPad/iPhone posts, and they seemed vague too.
Just saying, good or bad, looking back on rumour posts is always an interesting experience.]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/I upranked you based purely on your pic and name...]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 6:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 6:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/
Why would MS choose to delete features and diminish capabilities already well implemented into Windows 7?

After all that's Apple's 'game plan (see: Apple iPad w/o integrated USB, webcam, video out, FLASH support, et al), and an iDiotic one at that!]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/
Windows had it's time; and now it's over. Anyhow, that's just my personal opinion, but the way I see it, when true competition arose, MS true abilities came into the light, and they are rather pitiful (starting with a complete fool for CEO). You can do anything when you have money and no laws to govern your actions. Today is a different world fortunately. We are more a generation of skill and the people are a lot more educated and well informed - tech wise.]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/
Now that can't be true, I don't know many people who can even afford a macintosh. I repeatedly keep having to tell my college not to buy them as the computers used for CAD are underpowered as hell and you can buy one beast of a computer for the price of an iMac.]]>Feb 10th 2010 9:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/
LOL! Since you obviously didn't get the memo:

Windows 7 is the single fastest selling operating system in the entire history of operating systems.

Apparently you're yet another fan iDiot suffering from 'Reality Separation' due to far too much chewing on whatever rotten fruit old Stevie J. has tossed your way.

Have A Nice Day]]>Feb 10th 2010 9:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 9:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/

Sucka's!]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/I feel ya..i feel ya..]]>Feb 10th 2010 7:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/
Hell, I just want the Courier. I would take the Courier over the iPad any day.]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/"Hell, I just want the Courier. I would take the Courier over the iPad any day."

so would the rest of humanity my friend.]]>Feb 10th 2010 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Why would a code name need to be creative? It's not the production name.]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Yeah, it's not like they just slapped a "7" on their last production title....oh wait. ]]>Feb 10th 2010 6:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/Feb 10th 2010 9:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/10/microsoft-employee-raves-about-windows-next-in-a-blog-post-bl/
please. codename? Its gonna be called windows 8.]]>Feb 11th 2010 2:17AM