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Peter Jason
I got an email with this:
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/Features/2011/jun11/06-01corporatenews.aspx
http://www.microsoft.com/Presspass/Features/2011/jun11/06-01corporatenews.aspx
V
VanguardLH
Peter said:
You trying to convince us that you have never heard the word "demo".
Uh huh.
T
Tester
We should sack/fire that bitch called: Julie Larson-Green, Corporate
Vice President, Windows Experience. Trump could do this for us!
Vice President, Windows Experience. Trump could do this for us!
P
Peter Jason
....Uh...well, the site doesn't say "demo", though there is a
small-lettered word right at the bottom saying "demonstration" though
this may not be the same thing because it refers to the small video
there.
P
Paul in Houston TX
Peter said:
Disposable o/s for disposable devices.
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Todd
Hi Peter,
We are in the marking hype build up stage. We probably won't see
a beta for a couple of years. My guess is that M$ marketing is
trying to float a trial balloon on their iPad look-a-like
desktop to see if they can generate any positive public
interest. I am not much of a fan of "OS as Amusement Park",
but I have no choice in the matter. If I did have a choice,
it would be faster than XP, twice as stable as XP, and compatible
with all XP programs. But I don't think I am going to win this one.
I would also like just two versions of Windows: 32 bit and
64 bit and buy what ever custom apps you want from the M$
store. Never going to convince marketing on that one. :'(
-T
S
Seth
Peter Jason said:
How about the title line starting with "Previewing"?
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Peter Jason
Of course I realized that any promo may not tell the full story, hence
my query to the cognoscenti and Gnostic literati here. But I think
I get the gist.
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Warren Smith
Todd said:
I'd like a system whereby the OS is kept separate from the applications and
data. Therefore if something went wrong with the OS, just a click of a
button would reload the OS from the cloud and all is back to normal.
Dream on! Yeah, I will be waiting years for something like this. So in the
meantime I will stay with XP.
Warren Smith
[email protected]
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sctvguy1
Any version of Linux will do that.
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Todd
Hi Sctvguy1 and Alias,
What are you two guys talking about? I have been a Linux Sys Admin
for over 15 years and I can not recall any such reload from the cloud
command. I have never had the OS corrupt, so never needed to have such
a thing. Now mind you, I have done some stupid things over the years,
but nothing I could not undo with the install disk in rescue mode.
Would love a new command.
Also, since Linux does not use the accursed "registry" and
no junk pile system32 directory of DLL's, the Apps and the
OS are pretty much kept apart, including the data. No marketing
department to screw things up trying to rule the world (they've
pretty much succeeded). Linux is a whole different mind set.
Unfortunately, Linux is not going to go very far on the
desktop until they can compete with the M$'s application base.
If we could get Red Hat, IBM, et al to come up with a decent
installer and make it such that EVERY Windows program ran
in Linux, M$ would be in real trouble. Unfortunately, at the
moment, all we have is the Wine application layer to run
Windows programs -- which at its best is alpha stage software
with emphasis on gaming software. The Wine guys are great
guys, but they are overwhelmed.
I ramble.
-T
T
Todd
Rats!
The run, crash, reboot, roll back, reinstall, shake fist,
swear, call tech support culture is really a M$ thing and
does not show up in other OS'es.
I have royally screwed up apps in Linux, but they leave
the OS alone. I have never had to reinstall the OS even
once. Totally different culture than M$.
But, without M$, I would not have a job. Maybe I would
go back to writing software. Was pretty good at Modula2
at one time, but never got into C (big mistake).
-T
C
Char Jackson
Fortunately, it's not common in Microsoft OS's, either.
BTW, your use of M$ makes you sound juvenile.
G
Gene E. Bloch
In my internal assembly language, M$ is the opcode for "Go to next
post"...In machine language, it is 0xBAD.
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Todd
In my machine code it is an abbreviation for end-around-confusion-loop,
or Jump0
On my work processors, the auto text function automatically converts
M$ to Microsoft. Even capitalizes the "M" for me. "Ms" is a girl's
title (Mrs, Miss, Ms).
If M$ ever was bad taste, it is not anymore. If I wanted to insult M$
I would mention that they are convicted criminals in two continents.
Then again, that is not an insult, that is fact. Lets try this
again, M$ makes crappy software. Now that was a real insult.
Mostly fact as well. Darned. I will get this insult M$ stuff
down eventually. Hmmm, what can I say that actually isn't true ...
I have got to say, M$ is ubiquitous. It is everywhere. Even
my supplier's M$ license desk calls them M$ and to M$ as well.
Basically, I will not have my thoughts censored by anyone's marketing
department. M$ is not going to win this one. Seems to me Coke lost
their attempt to call other products sodas instead of coke. Kleenex
and tissue, Ford and found on road dead (okay, I know on that one), ...
-T
C
Char Jackson
Cute, thanks.
T
Tester
Char said:
BTW you going at it all the time makes you look stupid!
C
Char Jackson
I'm not saying it's in bad taste. I'm just saying it makes you sound
juvenile and ignorant. The trouble is, along with your rants about
Windows being unstable, you're really wearing the 'juvenile and
ignorant' label with pride, but it sounds like you're OK with that so
carry on. I'll try not to bug you about it.
Check your calendar. It's no longer 1992.
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Todd
Hi Tester,
I thought she had kill filed me, which is a good idea.
I have kill filed her. I only mention it to her as I think
it impolite to have someone waste their time writing to me
just to be kill filed. I will not go into my reasons why,
as I also think it unfair not to give them a chance to
respond. I only see her stuff when someone quotes her.
-T