Microsoft's Ballmer: Windows 7 Almost Ready

AP via FoxNews.com ^ | January 08, 2009

[ETL]

LAS VEGAS — Microsoft Corp.'s next version of the Windows operating system is almost ready for prime time. That's one message Chief Executive Steve Ballmer delivered on the eve of the official opening of the International Consumer Electronics Show.

[DevNet]

The DRM code isn’t used unless you are playing DRM protected content. Don’t want it to use cycles then simply don’t play DRM protected content.

[mowowie]

Hey Ballmer, Just give me DirectX 10 for XP you lunatic.

[DevNet]

For technical reasons that would be next to impossible. The 3.2 GB limit doesn’t help matters either.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Windows 7 is going to be great. Windows bashers - keep in mind that Microsoft always starts off with a crappy product but then hits one out of the park. It happened with Windows 98, Windows XP, the first Xbox, and now with Windows 7. No doubt that Microsoft heard folks loud and clear about Vista. I look forward to 7 but will keep XP for now.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

By all reports Windows 7 is a very very good OS, of course the appleites will never acknowledge this or the light weight smart asses who think it is cool to dump on something because a certain company that touched them in forbidden places made it

Exactly. So sick of the smart ass "Get a Mac" comments from the computer snobs here. Most of us don't want the bells and whistles, we just want to log onto the damn internet, OK?

[The Duke]

The DRM code isn’t used unless you are playing DRM protected content. Don’t want it to use cycles then simply don’t play DRM protected content.

Darn, where were you before I discovered the joy of Linux?

[DevNet]

So I take it you aren’t going to address my answer to your statement?

[The Duke]

Actually I did in my reply (although maybe it took a little inference).

BTW, I loved your commercials with Sienfield!

[DevNet]

“Darn, where were you before I discovered the joy of Linux? “

That doesn’t even begin to answer the question - it appears that you simply don’t have an answer.

[RckyRaCoCo]

...Windows 7 - Beta 1 available later today

"I'm not gonna try it...

...you try it....

...I'm not gonna try it...

I know....

...let's get Mikey..."

[ShadowAce]

[Still Thinking]

I’m sure that it will at least in virtualization.

[Colonel_Flagg]

Vista rarely crashes and anybody who says so doesn’t know squat about Vista.

My Vista Home Basic on my Dell Inspiron laptop crashes - on average - four to five times per week.

Per week.

Thankfully, it also appears to recover well from crashes. But all my vital files are backed up daily. Just in case.

[Still Thinking]

But still have DRM. I have no desire to pirate content, but if a company wants to sell me something, every single decision that went into making that product had better have been made in MY best interests and not that of some third party.

Every single hard drive sector, every single CPU or GPU cycle, every single byte of RAM is my personal property, which I know because I bought the hardware and the electricity that powers it. To be forced to use them to protect someone else FROM ME, or in fact to do ANYTHING other than what I set out to do, is fraud, and I refuse to play. No more muSquish OS’s for me, thank you very much.