As it stands, Microsoft’s next mayor OS release is targeted for 2010 and being called Windows 7. There has been a lot of speculation mounting on how they can reinvent the OS and take all the wrongs done by Vista(and still doing with SP1).
Ars Tecnica is reporting that Windows might be going modular:
But just imagine [...]
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Windows 7 might be going modular?
Imaginary performance boosts
Brent Simmons:
I bet every software developer has seen this—release a new version, even one you know to be slower, and some people will thank you for the performance boost.
Perception is a bitch and people do buy into the numbers game. 1.14 > 1.1.3 thus faster.
I guess that’s why Microsoft doesn’t use numbers that much (2000, [...]
Get a Mac to go with that digital picture frame you got for Valentines Day
Apparently they have discovered trojans in picture frames coming from China. Who buys these things anyway?
John Gruber comments on article by Deborah Gage in the San Francisco Chronicle:
I love how it’s called a “computer virus”, not a “Windows virus”, but the advice they offer is to test the thing on a Mac or Linux [...]