Windows 7 box cover art is revealed
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And given the number of units that Microsoft will ship I assume that saving on printings costs is not going to be insignificant.
I agree. It's Windows. Same old Windows, with a few lessons learnt and plenty of new vulnerabilities.
I use Linux, I use Windows, I use Mac so what does that say about me?Well, except for those crazy Mac users and the social rejects who cling to Linux.
Crazy social reject Borg.
Maybe I'm just obtuse, but I hadn't realized that they were actually marketing this as "Windows 7." I had assumed that that was just a placeholder until they announced the new ridiculous name. It's silly, but I have a better opinion of the new OS just because they put a version number on it. Any chance the service pack will be called Windows 7.1?
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Yep. The service pack will probably just be Windows 7 SP1, though.
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I guess they've come full circle after Window's 1, 2 & 3.
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Yep. I remember when XP first came out. I was thinking, "XP? What the hell kind of version number is that? At least with 98 we knew what year!" I was, uh, against XP when it first premiered.
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I wonder what the final build number will be. Currently we're at 7231 IRC.
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Wow. I would have no idea. Probably 75- something something, but I don't remember how they used to do it.
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It is getting a bit ridiculous.
7229 and 7231 were released a few hours apart. Usually it's a few days. Although from what I've heard from the 7150s (and definitely from 7201) the builds have all been virtually identical from the release candidate and described as "boringly stable".
7229 and 7231 were released a few hours apart. Usually it's a few days. Although from what I've heard from the 7150s (and definitely from 7201) the builds have all been virtually identical from the release candidate and described as "boringly stable".
No. It means a man willing to like all the meats of our cultural stew.
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mmm... meat stew.
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It is getting a bit ridiculous.
7229 and 7231 were released a few hours apart. Usually it's a few days. Although from what I've heard from the 7150s (and definitely from 7201) the builds have all been virtually identical from the release candidate and described as "boringly stable".
Yeah, but come on, they have to have something to do when everything goes well. God knows they haven't seen this kind of progress in decades!
mmm... meat stew.
Mmm... I like meat stew.
Which reminds me of a guy I used to work with at Dell. He was from Kenya, and spoke little English but was a great worker and a very nice fellow. One day we had a potluck since we were staying 16 hours for inventory. So we each bring in a dish, and he brings in this big pot and sits it on the table. I ask him, "What did you bring?" He smiles really big and says "Rice and meat!". So I ask, "What kind of meat?" He replies after a very thoughtful pause, "...meat!" and smiles big again. We avoided the rice and meat.
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Mmm... I like meat stew.
Which reminds me of a guy I used to work with at Dell. He was from Kenya, and spoke little English but was a great worker and a very nice fellow. One day we had a potluck since we were staying 16 hours for inventory. So we each bring in a dish, and he brings in this big pot and sits it on the table. I ask him, "What did you bring?" He smiles really big and says "Rice and meat!". So I ask, "What kind of meat?" He replies after a very thoughtful pause, "...meat!" and smiles big again. We avoided the rice and meat.
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There weren't any mysteriously absent members of your team were there?
I always thought the MS Windows 7 kernel was written ic C; to hear it was done in BASIC
I have Vista and have no problems with it.
I won't change to 7 if it means having to put down a lot of money. No need to fix what isn't broken. My PC works fine with Vista.
I would have to know I'm getting something of benefit and value to buy W7.
Yep. I remember when XP first came out. I was thinking, "XP? What the hell kind of version number is that? At least with 98 we knew what year!" I was, uh, against XP when it first premiered.
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What's funny to me is that people think Windows 7 has a lineage going back to the original 1.0, but it really doesn't. Windows 7 is really Windows NT 7.0, as Vista was 6.0, XP was 5.1, and 2000 was 5.0.
I suppose you could say that 95 was "4.0" and 98 was "4.1," and we can just pretend "Mistake Edition" never happened.
Dave Cutler's legacy lives on!
This is basic product marketing, not some evil plot to grab your money. If they had just come out with one version, people would be complaining about having to pay for features they didn't want.
EDIT: Technically, product marketing IS a plot to grab your money. However, it is not always evil.
And yet they are calling it "7". Ah, Microsoft.
I am not surprised, though. I always figured the successor to Vista would be more incremental, not a big leap like XP to Vista was. A ".1" version doesn't seem unreasonable.
But, what? Windows 8 will actually be 6.2? 6.5? 7.0? The numbers will forever be out of sync! AGGGHHHH!!!!
