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- Scrappy1850, on 06/30/2008, -19/+105these comments suck
- kdnewton, on 06/30/2008, -12/+56This is a little misleading. WinXP will still be around as pre-load on lower-end PCs as competition with sub-notebooks running Linux.
http://www.nytimes.com/idg/IDG_852573C400693880482 ... - tnoy, on 06/30/2008, -5/+34I've always been looking forward to the potential "next big thing" from Microsoft. I'd love to see them gut the legacy ***** from Windows and start fresh. Its become even more of a possibility now with how far virtualization has come. They could provide legacy support though a hypervisor.
I'd love to see them create a great new OS, but I doubt we'd ever see it unless there is a large shift of people in control. XP was great, but the delays in Vista coupled with its lackluster adoption seems like it has been pretty damaging. I've been thinking of Windows 7 as make-or-break for Microsoft. If Windows 7 flops, it'll open the door for another player to take a serious amount of the market share. - chedabob, on 06/30/2008, -3/+25Yeah, I miss plugging in a scanner and getting a BSOD.
- tnoy, on 06/30/2008, -4/+25Its about as lame as calling an OS something like "Intrepid Ibex"
- bjornski, on 06/30/2008, -4/+22Link was nothing but spam for a book, with no facts and only rumors.
Good way to sell a book, I guess.
/buried as spam - Rikkochet, on 06/30/2008, -1/+18Just like the last 10 years all were!
- AirRaven, on 06/30/2008, -3/+20...I'm assuming that you had a bad experience in the past building a PC?
I'm also assuming that you most likely sucked hard at doing so. - shirosamurai, on 06/30/2008, -5/+20Midori is the Japanese word for the color green. That's all there is to it.
- hiikeeba, on 06/30/2008, -0/+11It is also a traditional Japanese girls' name.
- emaredubyou, on 06/30/2008, -0/+11chill out! i'm pretty sure he's joking
taking the normal xp vs vista argument, but replacing xp with vista and vista with midori. - tnoy, on 06/30/2008, -2/+13"...guarantee and security that it at least works of a finished product"
Unless you actually know more about a computer than how to turn it on and logon to digg. - gasoline, on 06/30/2008, -4/+15It took several years before XP became widely accepted. I remember all the doubts about how much RAM XP really needs and so on. Reminds a bit what's going on with Vista right now.
- spacebuddy, on 06/30/2008, -0/+9They need to remove the registry, DLLs, OCXs, COM Controls. Get rid of all this garbage.
- CCmachined, on 06/30/2008, -0/+10so true.
the only problem Linux has is theres no standard distro people can recognize. I would say Ubuntu but it's not very optomized for low-end machines. Xubuntu? it even runs on the eeePC ;D - netneutrality, on 06/30/2008, -0/+9Kernels can have command lines. Can't include system libraries like stdio though.
- tnoy, on 06/30/2008, -1/+10Why the ***** would you miss Windows 98?
- KMartSheriff, on 06/30/2008, -4/+12Hence why they're buried, which sucks because I'm genuinely interested in this and would love to see a discussion.
- armor, on 06/30/2008, -4/+12Mmm.. boat..
- BlackJackJester, on 06/30/2008, -3/+11What do you have against something that is far more functional and useful, and user friendly than they have in OS/X?
- jimminy, on 06/30/2008, -2/+10I don't.
- bratterscain, on 06/30/2008, -1/+9I did too until lately when I got a bunch of old computers. And jesus *****, I'm so glad it's all behind us.
- kibbledbits, on 06/30/2008, -12/+20Microsoft's problem is also it's success. The Win32 API. The only reason people use Windows is to have ubiquitous use of applications. If people migrate and learn something new many will choose Non-Windows.
- 2Bnor2B, on 06/30/2008, -0/+7Click "settings" on title bar above the comments.
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Reload page and enjoy. - trollick, on 06/30/2008, -12/+19I'll stick with Vista. Midori is such a resource hog and it is nothing more than Vista plus eye candy. There is no reason to switch.
- ElBeh, on 06/30/2008, -4/+11It's the codename, not the official, released name. Also, Google tells me it's a brand of melon liquor...
- Tenoq, on 07/01/2008, -0/+7Wait, you mean we're supposed to read the articles before commenting?!
- CharlesSaint, on 06/30/2008, -0/+8I can tell you outright that I'm not a part of the bury squad, but a majority of these comments are nothing short of pure ***** one-liners that contribute absolutely nothing useful or amusing to the conversation whatsoever. If i want those kind of comments, I go to youtube. But, if anything, I'll try to do my part to help others not suffer through all the dumbass digger-come-lately fools that seem to be multiplying like jackrabbits on this site.
- jimminy, on 06/30/2008, -4/+11I can imagine someone at Microsoft opening Notepad and typing something like
/*A new kernel for Windows*/
#include "stdio.h"
void main(void){ - andstone, on 06/30/2008, -3/+10It's the japanese word for "green". Perhaps they foresee lots of it once they roll it out.
- lrdntwnd, on 07/01/2008, -0/+6It's usually not a drink by itself. It's a top-shelf melon liqueur. It can be used to make some pretty awesome drinks. And, just because it tastes like fruit doesn't make it any less of a drink (when ordered in a bar, a cosmo still has more alcohol in it than a Jack and Coke).
- Hangly, on 07/01/2008, -0/+6And several ugly ones.
- IdanH14, on 06/30/2008, -0/+6As much as you'd be dugg down, PaleGhost, as an IT guy, I can say you're right. In our IT department, we can't just force a new OS, even a new Microsoft OS, down everyone's throats. We just can't. The users hate changes in their day-to-day software, not to speak of a whole OS switch.
- Canadian0207, on 06/30/2008, -0/+6mmmm...midori sours rock...
- KnightWhoSaysNi, on 06/30/2008, -1/+7Yes, but reaction to XP was never as negative as the reaction to Vista.
Also, a lot of people liked XP from the start, which didn't happen with Vista. - OroCHU, on 07/01/2008, -1/+7Assuming Mr. Rudder or Mr. Mundie is a fan of Midori no Hibi (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_no_hibi), it's also an appropriate name for a microkernel-based OS.
- sockpuppets, on 06/30/2008, -6/+11Irodim, the Greek God of mutilthreaded processes, spelled backwards.
- KMyHero, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5How high are you?
- XBSHX, on 06/30/2008, -2/+8Except Vista had that look before it was even released.
- StealthTomato, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5That may be the case, but your first link ain't exactly convincing evidence: the GNOME Menu button has a Windows logo on it. Obviously a "tribute" theme.
- veganima, on 06/30/2008, -2/+7I do not agree with that at all. I have ubuntu 7.10 and windows 2000 both installed in an Athlon900 and 256 MB Ram, and the difference is brutal. Ubuntu runs perfect and windows 2000 with just avast and zone alarm is tedious. However they downsize xp I do not think it could be rival, more to say if we compared it with xubuntu (the light version). I admit windows is still better in having more programs and drivers but, technically, as an OS, XP is no rival for ubuntu.
- pcpimpster, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5"by the time your laptop needs upgrading, it's the time a desktop would need an overall replacement"
That made no sense to me. Laptop and desktop hardware moves about the same pace and it is usually a laptop that lacks the base performance compared to a desktop in the same price range.
So if your running software on it, as most computers do... you will get better price/performance with the desktop.
An example would be laptop hard drives which have less storage and spindle speed when compared with desktop hard drives.
Another would be quad core performance which you will get at much lower cost for a desktop verse laptop.
GPU, RAM? I'll stop there...
As for the article, cool, i can still get XP oem if I really need it. - jrizzo, on 06/30/2008, -2/+71. Install OS
2. Install Game
3. Play game
I know its a result of corporate whoring from M$ and all, but when linux can do that without any steps in between, I will care. - CCmachined, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5it doesnt seserve the money savings
- nullx42, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5lol miss the joke more.
- iamnobody8614, on 06/30/2008, -4/+8It is a delicious melon flavored liquor.
- bitterbug, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4Ditto. No real story there, just something to push the "find out more by reading my book" method of advertising.
- noolvidaremos, on 06/30/2008, -3/+7i will not
- evanct, on 06/30/2008, -3/+7midori is the japanese word for green.
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