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Microsoft Windows 7 "Wishlist" Leaked 522

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:20PM from the leaky-news-always-suspect dept.

Cassius Corodes is one of many readers to point out that a recent "wishlist" of new Windows development features is floating around the net. This list was supposedly leaked from Microsoft and contains some of their key development features for the next version of Windows. Given that the next new Windows release is bound to be a long way off I would recommend seasoning this news with a hefty dose of sodium chloride.

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they wish... (Score:5, Funny)

by night_flyer ( 453866 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:24PM (#21343239) Homepage

It will sell better than Vista!

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Open Source Sodium Chloride (Score:5, Funny)

by EmbeddedJanitor ( 597831 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:24PM (#21343247)

Who needs Windows sodium chloride: Us open source people make our own. Just give us hydrochoric acid and sodium hydroxide and we'll make... AAAAAAGGGGHHHH

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Follow-up story (Score:5, Funny)

by MrAndrews ( 456547 ) * writes: <mcm@NOSpaM.1889.ca> on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:25PM (#21343253) Homepage

Microsoft is displeased at the leak. Apparently it's not a wishlist at all. [pttbt.ca]

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Re:Why didn't they include... (Score:5, Funny)

by ackthpt ( 218170 ) * writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:25PM (#21343257) Homepage Journal

I'd like to see the option on boot "Load a lot of libraries you probably will never use, but will take up half your system memory, on start-up (Y/N)

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Standard Microsoft Operating Procedure (Score:5, Funny)

by elronxenu ( 117773 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:26PM (#21343273) Homepage

Step 1: Release awful product
Step 2: Seed the marketplace with rumours about how great the next version will be
Step 3: Sell a lot of awful product (this is the Profit!!! step)
Step 4: Develop next version, dropping cool features and instead devoting more development time to Microsoft Bob, Clippy, and meaningless user-interface tweaks
Loop around to Step 1.

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Re:Keep those wishes coming (Score:3, Funny)

by davester666 ( 731373 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:27PM (#21343291) Journal

...and the first person to add "make it work better than Mac OS X 10.5" is FIRED!

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Corporate development cycle (Score:5, Funny)

by athloi ( 1075845 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:29PM (#21343315) Homepage Journal

Given the latency involved with getting 65,000 people into the right parking spaces, much less coding up an operating system, I'd guess the list is this:

1. Telepathy
2. Time Travel
3. Prescience
4. Anomie
5. 4D Interface
6. Zen
7. Levitation

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Re:they wish... (Score:5, Funny)

by ackthpt ( 218170 ) * writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:29PM (#21343319) Homepage Journal

they wish ... It will sell better than Vista!

Oh, but they will find some way to tell you it does!

"Windows7 - Sales up 27% over Windows Vista among one-legged, blind, ambisexual, vegetarian, wombat herders born under a full moon in a month with an R in it"

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Re:Why didn't they include... (Score:5, Funny)

by pintpusher ( 854001 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:29PM (#21343325) Journal

You have chosen to not load a number of libraries that you will probably never use. Are you sure? (Y/N)

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Re:Keep those wishes coming (Score:2, Funny)

by ackthpt ( 218170 ) * writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:31PM (#21343347) Homepage Journal

...and the first person to add "make it work better than Mac OS X 10.5" is FIRED!

And another chair hits the wall! I should have stock in Herman Miller.

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Re:Open Source Sodium Chloride (Score:2, Funny)

by ackthpt ( 218170 ) * writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:34PM (#21343379) Homepage Journal

Who needs Windows sodium chloride: Us open source people make our own. Just give us hydrochoric acid and sodium hydroxide and we'll make... AAAAAAGGGGHHHH

Quick! Where's the Open Source PH meter?!?

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Re:Recycling (Score:2, Funny)

by wizardforce ( 1005805 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:38PM (#21343447) Journal

it's a list of things ballmer is envious about other OSes and internet browsers. He's also developing a new model of chair for the release of windows 7 deadly sins edition. :)

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Re:Sand-poundingly obvious things ... (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:38PM (#21343453)

17 years (!) after Windows 95-style open-and-save dialog boxes debuted...

Greetings from here in 2007! How is life for you in 2012? Has Duke Nukem Forever shipped yet?

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And In Other News... (Score:5, Funny)

by MightyMartian ( 840721 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:43PM (#21343505) Journal

Oh please. Fuck you! You're belittling both Windows and Linux by a stupid comment like that.

And in other news, the heads of Solaris users around the world exploded into what one witness described as "a lethal conflagration born out of self-righteousness and impotence."

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Re:Why didn't they include... (Score:0, Funny)

by stonedcat ( 80201 ) writes: <hikaricore [at] gmail.com> on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:44PM (#21343509) Homepage

I think you mean (Cancel) or (Allow).

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Re:Open Source Sodium Chloride (Score:5, Funny)

by PhxBlue ( 562201 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:46PM (#21343539) Homepage Journal

Just give us hydrochoric acid and sodium hydroxide and we'll make... AAAAAAGGGGHHHH
Johnny was a chemist,
but Johnny is no more.
What Johnny thought was H2O
was H2SO4.

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Re:wheres your innovation? (Score:5, Funny)

by Ben174 ( 853174 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:46PM (#21343547) Homepage Journal

half that stuff on their list is already a part of firefox and either a part of many linux distros or easily addable- what is new here exactly?
The other half :)

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Re:Open Source Sodium Chloride (Score:5, Funny)

by MightyMartian ( 840721 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:48PM (#21343555) Journal

Who needs Windows sodium chloride: Us open source people make our own. Just give us hydrochoric acid and sodium hydroxide and we'll make... AAAAAAGGGGHHHH

Quick! Where's the Open Source PH meter?!?

Sorry, the project's on hold while the development team debates GPLv3 vs. BSD licensing. Currently it can only detect sulfuric and nitric acids, though it does have real nifty Gnome integration.

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Fixed (Score:2, Funny)

by renegadesx ( 977007 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @07:48PM (#21343559)

You have chosen to not load a number of libraries that you will probably never use. Loading useless libaries.

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Re:Am I the only person who makes a 2nd partition? (Score:5, Funny)

by Frosty Piss ( 770223 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @08:09PM (#21343803)

I've always been in the habit of making four partitions. Windows, applications, games and misc/tmp drive. It's worked well for me.
Maybe so, but I find that 5 works best: Windows, applications, games and misc/tmp, and porn.

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Re:Wow, Microsoft innovation (Score:5, Funny)

by Anonymous Coward writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @08:09PM (#21343807)

Don't you have a bunch of important files to move around on your mac?

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Comment removed (Score:3, Funny)

by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @08:37PM (#21344067)

Comment removed based on user account deletion

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Re:Why didn't they include... (Score:4, Funny)

by pintpusher ( 854001 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @08:37PM (#21344071) Journal

I think you're right, but I'm pulling this joke from the ether having no install of windows... So...

Clippy sez:

It looks like you're trying to criticize a poorly implemented slashdot meme...

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Re:Open Source Sodium Chloride (Score:3, Funny)

by ricebowl ( 999467 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @09:00PM (#21344253)

...though it does have real nifty Gnome integration.

I think you meant to say 'gnifty.'

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Re:Sand-poundingly obvious things ... (Score:4, Funny)

by renegadesx ( 977007 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @09:00PM (#21344257)

Its been pushed back to next year (2013)

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Re:I Wish (Score:5, Funny)

by s4m7 ( 519684 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @09:00PM (#21344261) Homepage

perhaps what they should be doing is slowly evolving a system

Yeah, they should be doing that. But you're right on the mark, it's not going to justify new OS sales if they don't "revolutionize" things every few years. Look at how slow Vista has been taking off, even with many OEM's shipping it unless you specify otherwise.

Here's what I think the next evolution of windows will be: vista with a fresh coat of paint and a few new system-intensive bells and whistles that don't add much in terms of actual functionality. The key "feature" will be a bunch of built in hooks to use pay-as-you-go subscription web applications hosted by MS.

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Windows Classic (Score:5, Funny)

by Mr Pippin ( 659094 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @09:14PM (#21344379)

Vista = New Coke
Just admit the mistake and bring back XP.

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Re:Why didn't they include... (Score:3, Funny)

by Kalriath ( 849904 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @09:20PM (#21344427)

I think YOU mean (Continue) or (Cancel)

After all, everyone digitally signs their memes these days.

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Re:Am I the only person who makes a 2nd partition? (Score:5, Funny)

by nevillethedevil ( 1021497 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @10:06PM (#21344793) Homepage Journal

Only on slashdot would that get modded "+5 informative" :)

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Re:Open Source Sodium Chloride (Score:2, Funny)

by jonadab ( 583620 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @10:38PM (#21345071) Homepage Journal

And while we're doing silly chemistry rhymes...

A mosquito was heard to complain
that a chemist had poisoned his brain.
The source of his sorrow
was 4-4 dichloro
diphenyltrichloroethane.

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Don't Worry (Score:4, Funny)

by PPH ( 736903 ) writes: on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @11:07PM (#21345259)

A stable, secure version of Windows is in our future and always will be.

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Re:Am I the only person who makes a 2nd partition? (Score:5, Funny)

by sootman ( 158191 ) writes: on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @12:21AM (#21345891) Homepage Journal

Yeah, forget you guys--I'm gonna make my own partition table, with /blackjack and /hookers. In fact, forget the partition table...

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Re:How about Microsoft address some of this stuff! (Score:1, Funny)

by humpy101 ( 1042972 ) writes: on Wednesday November 14, 2007 @07:57AM (#21347945)

Maddox [xmission.com], is that you?

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