Interesting, considering the article that started the thread ignored XP64 and bashed Windows for not having anything new.
Well, I would say that is more an issue of Stephen Levy being a biased technology reporter, and the quality of Newsweek in general (which in my opinion, is rather low from an informational perspective)
As for ignoring XP64, is XP64 considered a consumer OS, or is it more along the lines of a server or specialized OS? That is, are there Dells and HP's being sold to general consumers with XP64 on it by default and without the customer making a choice? I would guess not, but I might be ignorant on that point.
As for Windows not having anything new, that is a relative complaint. Certainly XP does not anything as "new" as OS X later this week, which isn't even officially out yet, so...who is newer as of the last update on the part of each OS? A semantical difference, I agree.
I wasn't referring to the article. That wasn't written by a Freeper - only posted by one. It is what it is, but let's face it, it came from MSNBC. It wasn't some fringe opinion.
Just to be very clear, I was specifically referring to alleged "bashing" by comment posters.