Microsoft.Windows.7.Beta.1.Build.7000.x86.DVD

leaked if you care .........

I know Clevalley - you probably already have it

[G1G4]

It's a Microsoft beta, if they supply the machine and pay me a fair amount, I'd care and beta test it.

[dn0121]

Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240x320))

its nothing special, anyone can paint an old car and try to sell it as new. pcs really won't change, I guess need to change until someone builds something new. xp and any pc from the last 5 years does everything 90% of all users need.

[Gwydion]

What Microsoft needs to do is release a completely new OS. One that is not compatible with XP or Vista. Start fresh and new. The only thing 7 is going to do is add more useless flare to vista.

Originally Posted by Gwydion

What Microsoft needs to do is release a completely new OS. One that is not compatible with XP or Vista. Start fresh and new. The only thing 7 is going to do is add more useless flare to vista.

No. Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 are good operating systems. Build off those.

[Beta84]

Originally Posted by Gwydion

What Microsoft needs to do is release a completely new OS. One that is not compatible with XP or Vista. Start fresh and new. The only thing 7 is going to do is add more useless flare to vista.

Are you kidding? They'd destroy their market. It's already bad enough that alot of programs compatible with XP and earlier aren't compatible with Vista, but they're working on correcting that mistake. COMPATIBILITY is why they are ahead of Apple. If they threw everything away then eventually their old stuff would be gone and every company would be "up for grabs" on whether they put their stuff on Microsoft or Apple. Microsoft would lose that battle based on the current trend. Ouch...unless they made an absolutely outstanding OS, that could be the death of Microsoft. Holy crap.

Never gonna happen.

[G1G4]

What more could you really do with a computer, in terms of software & operating systems? Microsoft pretty much hit everything. The thing that Microsoft has better than everyone else is accessibility. Windows (be it XP or Vista) is so diverse and dynamic, that someone just starting out can point and click and master Windows in a few hours. The Windows core file is so deep that advanced users can spend all their time on Windows, and still not figure out/master everything that Windows has to offer. Compare that to Linux and Mac, where you need some computing knowledge to operate both (moreso Linux than Mac), Windows blows away the other market share.

[Gwydion]

Originally Posted by Beaver-Cleaver

No. Windows 2000 and Windows XP SP2 are good operating systems. Build off those.

They did. Its called Vista.

Are you kidding? They'd destroy their market. It's already bad enough that alot of programs compatible with XP and earlier aren't compatible with Vista, but they're working on correcting that mistake. COMPATIBILITY is why they are ahead of Apple. If they threw everything away then eventually their old stuff would be gone and every company would be "up for grabs" on whether they put their stuff on Microsoft or Apple. Microsoft would lose that battle based on the current trend. Ouch...unless they made an absolutely outstanding OS, that could be the death of Microsoft. Holy crap.

Never gonna happen.

Nope. Limiting themselves to continue developing off an OS that is 9 years old is useless. Vista showed us that. The only upgrade in Vista was Directx 10. The only upgrade in Windows 7 will be Directx 11. Everything else is just how cute and user friendly the GUI can become... which those of us that actually care about system performance go through and turn off anyway.

Start fresh and start new. Force people to go out and buy new components so that memory and cpu utilization stay low. Get rid of all the flare and cuteness. Make it raw yet still GUI based.

Then let all the corporations and non-computer geeks keep using XP.

But... either way it works out... Windows 7 will just be vista with a few perks (that will probably be worse having than not) with Directx 11, as vista is XP with a few perks (all of which are worse having than not).

[Beta84]

Originally Posted by Gwydion

Nope. Limiting themselves to continue developing off an OS that is 9 years old is useless. Vista showed us that. The only upgrade in Vista was Directx 10. The only upgrade in Windows 7 will be Directx 11. Everything else is just how cute and user friendly the GUI can become... which those of us that actually care about system performance go through and turn off anyway.

Start fresh and start new. Force people to go out and buy new components so that memory and cpu utilization stay low. Get rid of all the flare and cuteness. Make it raw yet still GUI based.

Then let all the corporations and non-computer geeks keep using XP.

But... either way it works out... Windows 7 will just be vista with a few perks (that will probably be worse having than not) with Directx 11, as vista is XP with a few perks (all of which are worse having than not).

Tell me, what exactly do you want out of an operating system? And Directx 10 wasn't the only thing that changed with Vista. Do you use Vista or just talking from all the BS that people published the first week Vista came out?

[G1G4]

Originally Posted by Gwydion

....Start fresh and start new. Force people to go out and buy new components so that memory and cpu utilization stay low. Get rid of all the flare and cuteness. Make it raw ....

Theres already an OS like that, it's called Linux.