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- DJCult, on 10/12/2007, -20/+289Fiji, eh? Like the Island area that was so overrun with corruption that it declared a state of emergency until the military staged a coup d'état? Niiiiiiiice, Microsoft.
- sockpuppets, on 10/12/2007, -3/+110It's still cheaper than HP inkjet cartridge ink.
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -6/+104hell, human blood is cheaper than printer ink
- flag564, on 10/12/2007, -22/+99Jaguar:
An endangered species. - maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -8/+75ETA: 2030
- tehmatticus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+62Well, considering they started work on Longhorn/Vista 3 months before XP came out, i'd just say it was standard operating procedure for them. Good job making assumptions though!
- Shirk, on 10/12/2007, -7/+63Hacked versions of Fiji next week
- esangaline, on 10/12/2007, -2/+39Oh yeah, you can't sue for an internal name? Check out this tidbit from the Carl Sagan wikipedia page:
In 1994, Apple Computer began developing the Power Macintosh 7100. They chose the internal code name "Carl Sagan," the in-joke being that the mid-range PowerMac 7100 would make Apple "billions and billions."[14] Though the project name was strictly internal and never used in public marketing, when Sagan learned of this internal usage he sued Apple Computer to use a different project name. Other models released conjointly had code names such as "Cold fusion" and "Piltdown Man," and he was displeased at being associated with what he considered pseudoscience. Though Sagan lost the suit, Apple engineers complied with his demands anyway, renaming the project "BHA" (for Butt-Head Astronomer). Sagan promptly sued Apple for libel over the new name, claiming that it subjected him to contempt and ridicule, but lost this lawsuit as well. Still, the 7100 saw another name change: it was finally referred to internally as "LAW" (Lawyers Are Wimps). - Cougaboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+31Yeah, either that or it's a common practice with software companies. I know for a fact that Valve started Half-Life 2 before Half-Life 1 was even out.
Then again, we can just start on the whole anti-Vista bitch-fest when I would wager dollars to donuts that you don't have the foggiest clue what Vista is like. - dSlifer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+26I don't know... Fiji doesn't seem like it's the next OS because they chose "Blackcomb" for a really specific reason. It's the mountain across from Mt. Whistler, where the Longhorn bar is in the middle... that's why the saying is to get to Blackcomb, you have to go through Longhorn.
- unknownsoldierX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+25Update on that report....Bill Gates buys Fiji, pays with cash. Lawsuit avoided.
- mgsdeadcell, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27Vista's already been finished.
- scott1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+24Despite the millitary rule and the courption Fiji is pretty nice place to visit.
I'm sure the Fijian people will be more then happy to change the country's to:Microsoft Windows Fiji xp. - dawgma, on 10/12/2007, -4/+23Clearly.... you have no idea what your talking about.
- samanathon, on 10/12/2007, -0/+19What, do you think that companies just wait until the next product comes out before doing R&D on the on?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -5/+23Hah hah. Look at me. I'm a digg user. Im flaming a version of windows that I know nothing about. It's cool to do this.
Lol its coming out in 2130. I wonder if they will change the color of the BSOD. I BET ITS GONNA BE SECURE. LOL KEKE.
I HAEV A MAC! - whiteguysamurai, on 10/12/2007, -4/+22Hey, apple uses Intel chips.
You're a "PC dude" now.
Suck it up. - kb9vgr, on 10/12/2007, -2/+20oh and halo 3 was being worked on before public release of halo 2
- flag564, on 10/12/2007, -11/+2895% of PC users.
You know the people that exist outside your echo chamber. - TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -5/+19they did, it was called Windows 3.11
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+22So...around 2-3 years for 2000/XP...5 years for Vista...10 years for "Fiji"?
- maiku00, on 10/12/2007, -11/+24hey, I bet it will have a start bar, a folder system, and a ton of bugs
- Clodagh, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14I thought they were going to keep the codenames consistent, and follow up on Longhorn. I suggest Rhino's hole?
- mandrsn1, on 10/12/2007, -6/+17Can't sue for an internal name. Wasn't Windows 95 [or 98] code named Chicago?
- yournamehere, on 10/12/2007, -4/+15yeah, will that be the Mac OS that runs on thousands of different hardware configurations and plays games?
hmm, thought not - TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Windows Weekly listener, eh?
- Ireland, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Microsoft has bugun work on it's next version of Windows, with a surprise early announcement in 2012 to catch us all off guard!
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -4/+13do me a favor and never come back
- DigeratiPrime, on 10/12/2007, -6/+15printer ink is dirt cheap, its the cartridges and toners that are expensive. Learn to refill.
- Gottschalk, on 10/12/2007, -5/+14Ubuntu is more compatible with hardware configurations than Windows?
Get real. - titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Keep up with cat names? I say we got enough to burn.
- archer75, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12I don't care how many features OSX has if I can't run the damn thing on my choice of hardware.
At least I have my own choice of hardware with windows and can actually play some real games.
If apple released OSX for PC's i'd be all over it. Until then i'm more happy having control over my hardware and paying alot less for it. - benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -4/+12Too bad theres 80 times more versions of linux than vista
And when you ask linux folks for help you get bombarded with RTFM - JeffH, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I think people are finally fed up now that Vista is out and is good. It was cool to bash Vista until this point. But the people still holding on to that fad are just retards at this point. BTW, there has been relatively little "blatant" Microsoft fanboys, and the ones saying the stupid ***** the Apple fanboys have been saying (like "OMG VISTA 2.0!!!!", "Microsoft is on t3h ketchup againz!", etc.) have been modded down.
- benitojuarez, on 10/12/2007, -11/+19New features
Apple advertises that Panther has at least 150 new features, including:
Fax support built-in
Font Book font manager
Fast User Switching
DATS SUM ADVANCED OS RITE THERE! - JeffH, on 10/12/2007, -10/+17@ Magneto
Changes from XP to Vista:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Features_new_to_Windows_Vista
Changes from 10.2 to 10.3:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_v10.3
We love the updates? Sorry man, but Windows users aren't the ones getting screwed when it comes to "new" operating systems. - archer75, on 10/12/2007, -5/+12It does it a helluva alot better than Windows? Your nuts. Very few companies release linux drivers for thier hardware. The drivers they do release are almost never completely but rather beta drivers they rushed out and didn't put much effort in.
I wouldn't even call the open source software all that great. Most of it is second rate, lacking in features and just has a poor GUI. There are a few apps that stand out but very little is actually better than what I can find on the windows side.
Hell I can't even get ubuntu to run on this system. Constant lock ups and crashes. And the last version of ubuntu lacked hardware support for my sata 2 controller so I couldn't even run it.
And the community is full of elitists thinking they are better than everyone else because they know linux and drive a hybrid. I hate the linux community. - estvir, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8Zune didn't MEAN that, it SOUNDED SIMILAR, like how 'Wii' sounds like 'pee.'
- titlesaysitall, on 10/12/2007, -6/+13That's like saying who cares about breathing
- consonance, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9Microsoft won't charge for service packs. Remember that Microsoft is a vendor to huge corporations - corporations that keep costs as low as possible. Charging for service packs would rock the boat so much that everyone would get pissed off. While it may work for Apple, consider that Apple doesn't do corporate stuff; their target is the home consumer market, where consumers have money to burn.
- dillona, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6@archer
Dude, Singularity is a RESEARCH project meant to prove you can write an OS in managed code!
Its not the "next version of windows" - tehmatticus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7No. Vista R&D started before XP was released. This is how they work.
Edit: Bah, Mandrsn1 beat me to it. - rageguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6>Jaguar:
Stop making up animals! - jayc, on 10/12/2007, -12/+1895% of PC users care about the next version of Windows that doesn't even exist yet? Yeah right. I bet 90% of PC users couldn't even name the current release of Windows (Vista). These are the people that think the big blue e on their desktop is "the internets."
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5@mandrsn1:
Yes, 95 was internally known as "chicago" and betas were released under that name...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Chicago - t3hX, on 10/12/2007, -7/+12"and apple will be working overtime to catch up"
Ummm... no. - UltimaNut, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7You have high hopes for something that you have no info on? Hey, I got this ocean front property in Nevada you might like.....
- felderado, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_%22Vienna%22
It was Blackcomb -> Vienna -> and now Fiji? - an0nym0us, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Hey UNut, you seems to obviously care - to the point of dropping a comment, even. ;)
- an0nym0us, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Bah, consumers have better things to do with their perishable income than buying updates for their OS.
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