First Details of Windows 7 Emerge 615
Some small but significant details of the next major release of Windows have emerged via a presentation at the University of Illinois by Microsoft engineer Eric Traut. His presentation focuses on an internal project called "MinWin," designed to optimize the Windows kernel to a minimum footprint, and for which will be the basis for the Windows 7 kernel.
Size matters (Score:5, Funny)
It depends if you have size 24" feet (MS) or 8" feet like real normal OS's. No matter how big the foot, you can only reduce your footprint to the smallest size of the foot.
So that, as far as I am concerned, is a nebulous comment intended to fool the press and others that still believe every MS 'press release' they spew out.
Lesson in MS Counting (Score:5, Funny)
2, 3, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7!
No wonder kids have so much trouble at math....
Re:Lesson in MS Counting (Score:5, Funny)
Nuff said.
No, not really. That equation actually makes sense to you? Are you one of the Microsoft Excel developers?
Call me in 2012..... (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Lesson in MS Counting (Score:5, Funny)
Oh... it's worse in Excel 2007;
65533, 65534, 65535, 100000, 100000, 65538, 65539.. and so on!
Maybe there's some nice pattern too?
This time will be different! (Score:5, Funny)
It's going to have a database file system! It's going to be secure! No more rebooting! It will have a really good command line!
Windows 7 preview (Score:5, Funny)
After entering the correct activation keys, a dialog appears prompting you to select your social login profile group. You have no idea what that is so you click "Other Networks" The next dialog says "Connecting to networks..." for the next 5 minutes. A message apears saying "New Hardware Found" but it can't find the driver. Another popup appears "No networks found". Then your desktop appears. The wallpaper is stunning. The Internet Explorer icon appears to majestically float above the screen. You click it. A message appears warning you that the Internet can harm your computer, do you want to continue? You click "Yes". You are prompted to enter your administrator key. This key is on the sticker on the inside of your PC case. You shutdown the PC, get a screwdriver, open the case, write down the 18 digit administrator code, put the case back together and reboot.
After rebooting, blocking your ears during the chime assault, and oggling the amazing wallpaper, ignoring the "live folders server not found" error, you try Internet Explorer again. You dutifully enter the administrator key. You are asked if you want to save this key to your "universal keyring" You click OK. You are warned that the universal keyring is encrypted and your sending encrypted information. You click OK. After 3 minutes you get an error saying "No key server found"
You never do get to see the Internet. But the wallpaper is amazing.
Re:that sounds good but.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good intentions (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Lesson in MS Counting (Score:4, Funny)
"Me shalt thou not count, neither count thou 2, excepting that thou then proceed to 7. Vista is RIGHT OUT!"
Re:Lesson in MS Counting (Score:1, Funny)
Re:Call me in 2012..... (Score:5, Funny)
No thanks, I'll be waiting for Hurd [gnu.org] to be production-ready.
Re:Lesson in MS Counting (Score:5, Funny)
2, 3, 95, 98, ME, XP, Vista, 7!
I'm more curious what will Apple name their next major release, if ever.
OSX, OSXI, OSXII, OSXIV...?
Of course, once they reach 10.9, they have the option of pissing in the face of basic number representation and call the next version 10.10, then 10.11
Re:This is step one. (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Lesson in MS Counting (Score:4, Funny)
Ok, it made sense to me, but I had to reread it 3 times. Let's try again, with formatting:
No mention of Windows ME, but perhaps that's as it should be...
I thought this headline was about (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Lesson in MS Counting (Score:3, Funny)
Classic Oxymorons (Score:4, Funny)
Military intelligence
A new classic
Efficient bureaucracy
Peace force
MinWin
Cheers,
Dave
Re:Lesson in MS Counting (Score:4, Funny)
Awesome! (Score:3, Funny)
That rocks! Windows 7 will finally provide that last push needed to rocket Linux into the mainstream!
Can it be like Star Trek? (Score:4, Funny)
1) Windows 3.1?
2) Windows 95
3) Windows 98
4) Windows Me
5) Windows XP
6) Vista
7) First Contact?
Re:where are the details? (Score:3, Funny)
That IS Windows 7! It's the return of the CLI! Everything old is new again! Reviewers are already writing accolades for the new interface. It's been called "Bold" "Clean" and "Unobtrusive".
The perfect OS for people new to computers, no longer is there a rash of icons to confuse them, the OS is "simple" for those not technically inclined.
Enterprise customers love the lack of superfluous eye candy. Windows 7 screams "business" and "just the facts" and with a lack of translucency and 3D effects it runs much faster on businesses' hardware. Upgrade cycles can now be extended another 5 years and save millions in hardware costs by not having to buy higher end processors, memory, and GPUs to get basic work done.
Gamers will also appreciate more of their system's horsepower being put to use on their favorite titles. "It's like playing Doom on DOS 6 again!" raved one user.
Yup, Windows 7, it's not outdated, it's VINTAGE CHIC!
OS X.X? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:that sounds good but.. (Score:3, Funny)
The operating system family tree (Score:5, Funny)
Linux is loosly based on Minix only ditching the microkernel design and got support as the GNU kernel (another microkernel) was going nowhere.
Minix and BSD are based on UNIX, anyone can make a UNIX System III derivative for free as the code is public domain. Just most of the code is obsolete so you are better off making a BSD or Linux derivative (or Minix 3 if you want a microkernel)
So if you look at a family tree, Minix and Linux are brothers while OSX and Linux are more like cousins
Windows is the annoying friend that spunges off you for handouts and crashes on your couch
Re:that sounds good but.. (Score:5, Funny)
He is clearly attempting to say that UNIX is not true, whatever that means
Re:I thought this headline was about (Score:4, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Lesson in MS Counting (Score:3, Funny)
Nice try but you guys are all wrong (Score:5, Funny)
Microkernel? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Good intentions (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Windows 7 preview (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Oh God... (Score:1, Funny)
How DARE anyone out there make fun of MinWin after all she's been through!
Re:Oh God... (Score:3, Funny)
William Shatner posts on slashdot?
Re:Lesson in MS Counting (Score:3, Funny)
OS-Xe (e for enhanced)
Now say it - OS Sexy - geddit?
Re:Rinse, Repeat (Score:2, Funny)
That, or he feels Microsoft is a good example of the root cause of a lot of the problems the world faces.
Your psychobabble ridicule method follows the pattern pioneered by the Stalinists, by the way. Address your opponents like they're mentally unstable, and their angst is a psychological problem (Stalin took it further by institutionalizing them- you don't have that power at the moment.)
Re:Not Windows-2 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Lesson in MS Counting (Score:4, Funny)
x = 4/9
2k/xp = 5
k = 1000
2000 / xp = 5
x = 4/9
4500p = 5
p = 1/900
Windows == Solved!
Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)