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To: j3pflynn who wrote (248231)	3/2/2008 10:14:03 AM
From: Gloo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Didn't all this happen before it was evident Vista was a dog in sales?

To: j3pflynn who wrote (248231)	3/2/2008 11:20:53 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 275872

After using it for 6 mos. it Appears that Vista is bad news in a lot of ways.

To: j3pflynn who wrote (248231)	3/2/2008 1:11:50 PM
From: FJB	Respond to of 275872

Windows 7 is supposed to come out in 2010. I ran the betas and release candidate for Vista. Did not see a reason to upgrade nicely running XP systems. Maybe Microsoft will get it right in Windows 7? Features Right-click desktop menu showing options for Gadgets, and the new link to the Display property window.Windows 7 has reached the Milestone 1 (M1) stage and has been made available to key partners.[9] According to reports sent to TG Daily, the build adds support for systems using multiple heterogeneous graphics cards and a new version of Windows Media Center.[9] New features in Milestone 1 also reportedly include Gadgets being integrated into Windows Explorer, a Gadget for Windows Media Center, the ability to visually pin and unpin items from the Start Menu and Recycle Bin, improved media features, a new XPS Viewer and the Calculator accessory featuring Programmer and Statistics modes along with unit conversion. Reports indictate that a feedback tool included in Milestone 1 lists some coming features: the ability to store Internet Explorer settings on a Windows Live account, updated versions of Paint and WordPad, and a 10 minute install process.[15] [edit] MinWin A minimalistic variation of the Windows kernel, known as MinWin, is being developed for use in Windows 7. The MinWin development efforts are aimed towards componentizing the Windows kernel and reducing the dependencies with a view to carving out the minimal set of components required to build a self-contained kernel as well as reducing the disk footprint and memory usage.[16] MinWin takes up about 25 MB on disk and has a working set (memory usage) of 40 MB.[17] It lacks a graphical user interface and is interfaced using a full-screen command line interface.[18][17] It includes the I/O and networking subsystems.[16][18] MinWin was first publicly demonstrated on October 13, 2007 by Eric Traut. The demo system included an OS image, made up of about 100 files, on which a basic HTTP server was running.[17][19] Incidentally, the name MinWin was also used earlier to refer to what is currently known as Server Core in Windows Server 2008.[16][18] However, the two are quite different. While both efforts are to consolidate and componentize the core of Windows, with server core, the functionality of the OS is constrained according to server roles, and unneeded components (which will never be used as the role isn't supported) are removed from the binary image. However, the dependencies still exist in code, and the code cannot compile without the components. In contrast, with MinWin, the dependencies are consolidated into MinWin and what is not needed is removed at the code level itself. As a result, the code compiles even without any extraneous components and builds a stripped-down self-contained OS kernel image.[18][16] en.wikipedia.org