Registered: 9/2001
Location: Toronto Canada
Posts: 4582

Aspiring author

Hmm... Is it the 1990s again? MS is too worried about keeping customers running a poor quality product with promises of greatness in their future OS. The only way they can create a truly better OS is to do what Apple did and completely re-architect the OS to work on a certain level of hardware and newer. Cut the 32-bit support completely and remove the 32-bit support from the core OS, run 32-bit apps in an optimized virtual environment. Make all their 3rd party software products (IE, Mplayer, OE, Messenger, etc) truly optional components. I have lots more ideas but they will take more then 3 years (let alone the 1 year Gates is talking about) to be properly coded and internally tested.

Registered: 9/2001
Posts: 321

to get windows 7 out as fast as they want makes me think they are going to basicly take XP and add aero. (fine by me, as that honestly is why I like Vista.) That or strip out all the built in drivers and fancy 3D effects of areo.

Registered: 10/2004
Location: Spring Hill, FL
Posts: 12178

^ Which is fine with me as well... I just want DX10 support and less bloat! XP has always ran flawlessly for me.

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Registered: 0/2005
Location: Loveland, CO
Posts: 5498

I'm carbon based trained in the marshal arts.

Eliminate 32 bit apps? 32 bit "apps." can run in the current 64 bit Vista or Windows XP 64. However, both suck running a 32 bit app. in a 64 bit OS. Windows Aero.. :rolleyes: Get rid of the BS GUI and so called "optimization" using your RAM! Security is another one.

Registered: 9/2001
Location: Weymouth, MA
Posts: 1780

Homo sapien sapiens

This is good news. Frankly, in many ways, Microsoft's hold over personal computing would not bother me, if their products were better. Just me an OS that's powerful, stable use my computer's resources efficiently and that would go a long way. Oh yah, and make IE fully uninstallable w/o killing the base OS. That is all.

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Registered: 9/2001
Location: Toronto Canada
Posts: 4582

Aspiring author

"...make IE fully uninstallable w/o killing the base OS..." Not likely to happen, MS will probably say it would be a major rewrite to unbundle it even though I suspect it wouldn't be as big of a job as they'd make it out to be.

Registered: 9/2001
Posts: 2285

All I want is WinFS. Oh and screw Aero, just another bandwidth hog.

Registered: 9/2001
Posts: 18549

SWEET Windows Vista ME!

Registered: 2/2005
Location: Midwest
Posts: 4718

Geek ;)

Isn't a product without competition usually bad? I mean, look at Internet Explorer. The reason they bumped up IE 7 was due to the competition of Firefox. Without Firefox, IE 7 would probably be comparable to IE 6.

Registered: 1/2003
Posts: 427

"maybe, just maybe..." yea right, get a life. and apple sucks too.

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