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Some advice for Microsoft: Dump Windows
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| In light of the new Windows flaws announced yesterday, I think it's time to
| reiterate a point I made a long time ago:
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| It's time for Microsoft to dump Windows.
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| In fact, ten years ago would have been a good time to start. At the risk of
| berating the obvious, it's clear that security will continue to be a major
| problem for Microsoft. The reason is their tether to legacy code, and their
| patchwork attempts to shore up their OS core. It's time to let it go.
|
| Apple did it, and did it well. They created a virtualized environment to run
| Classic MacOS apps in order to ease the transition. When they switched
| processor architectures, they developed Rosetta, which allows PowerPC apps to
| run on an Intel platform without modification, again, easing the transition.
| It can be done. It has been done. It should be done.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/venezia/archives/018104.html
Recent:
Microsoft to Users: We're Giving Up on Windows
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| It's true: Microsoft has confirmed that it's abandoning Windows as we know
| it. Cagey as ever, the Microsofties won't say when it'll happen, but they
| have talked a little bit about what the next OS is going to look like--or not
| look like.
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| Microsoft code-named the project Midori. As best I can figure, it's cloud
| computing: Everything, including applications and data, is on the Internet.
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http://blogs.pcworld.com/tipsandtweaks/archives/007383.html
Windows 7: R.I.P.
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| Death throes. That’s how I’d describe the latest barrage of white papers from
| Microsoft. The company’s flagship, Windows Vista, is thrashing around in the
| shallows like a wounded animal, fighting in vain to escape the inevitable.
|
| [...]
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| Now we learn that there’s no point in waiting for Windows 7 because,
| according to Microsoft, “it’ll be just like Vista.”
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| Talk about eating your young! Microsoft is now publicly trashing their next
| version in order to salvage their current dud. Never mind that they’re
| killing the very positive mystique surrounding Windows 7. Company executives
| are hell bent on proving that the Vista “Refuseniks” were wrong, and they’re
| not above using force to achieve their goal.
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| That’s right, hidden within their latest propaganda piece is the not so
| veiled threat that customers who bypass Vista risk widening the very
| compatibility chasm that dissuaded them in the first place. That’s because
| Microsoft has no intention of making it any easier for customers to upgrade
| to Windows 7 from XP than it is for them to upgrade from XP to Vista today.
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http://weblog.infoworld.com/enterprisedesktop/archives/2008/06/windows_7_rip.html
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