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Corky
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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 07:56 Edited at: 4th Jan 2008 07:56
A quote from a Wikipedia page:

Quote: "Windows 7 (formerly codenamed Blackcomb, then Vienna) is a future version of Microsoft Windows. It is expected to be the successor to Windows Vista. Microsoft has confirmed that the planned development time frame is at least three years, putting the release date around 2010. On July 20, 2007, Microsoft confirmed that Windows 7 is "the internal name for the next version of the Windows Client OS".

Microsoft has refrained from discussing the details about Windows 7 publicly as they focus on the release and marketing of Windows Vista, though some early details of various core operating system features have emerged."


On the page (located here) Windows 7 will have touch features(like a touch screen)


Well anyway I wanted to ask if people think it will be a success. Sorry if this is already on the forum I searched and couldn't find it.

Duplex
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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 08:12
Thats old news!

http://www.windowsvienna.com/

I think it won't be that good. Personally, I think they should have never gone away from XP. By the time they release it, I doubt I will be on even Vista by then.

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Phaelax
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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 08:19
Windows 3.1 has touch features, as long as you have a touch screen. All a screen does is mimic a mouse and its buttons.


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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 08:21
All insidious LIES!

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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 12:36
if you walk into any currys, currys.digital or pc world you will see that they have touch screens on all the tills - and they just use standard hp computers running xp - the only thing they are missing is the cd drive

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Corky
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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 14:17
Yes I realize that, I only said that because thats like the only feature thats announced at the time.

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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 15:17
Early stages video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RsJC2vzqsWg

But im more intrested in this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rP5y7yp06n0
You wont see those in homes usually tho.. I think they are more for business and so on(Hotels restraunts etc..).


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Corky
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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 15:46
That guys so stupid on the first video:

Does any one know why its called windows 7.............well its because Vista was 6 and so on Lol

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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 19:48
XP is perfectly fine for me atm........

Why anyone would want to get Vista before at least SP1 is beyond me, because i have to deal with the things at school and it ended up deleting an entire IT project folder i had been working on because it is so buggy.......

I don't get what happened to things like 95, 98, Millenium Edition...

In those real progress was shown since they were early days, but now Microsoft have started giving them fancy names like Vista and Vienna to hide the fact that all they are is a £100 graphics upgrade.

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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 20:06
Quote: "XP is perfectly fine for me atm........"


Then, why aren't you still using windows 98, or ME, or 2000 even?

Seriously


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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 20:09
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Why anyone would want to get Vista before at least SP1 is beyond me, because i have to deal with the things at school and it ended up deleting an entire IT project folder i had been working on because it is so buggy......."


Recycle Bin?
Matt Rock
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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 20:16
I think Windows 7 is going to be the next major operating system. Vista is slow out of the gate, regardless of what OS you compare it to, and is quickly going the way of Windows ME. I seriously believe Vista is a stepping-stone operating system intended to try out new features on the public before Windows 7 goes on sale in 2010, and with any luck, the folks at Microsoft will hear the calls of all those customers who aren't satisfied with Vista and want more practicality out of their OS. Everytime someone says "Vista pwns because Aero is cool" I die a little inside . History will look at Vista the same way it looks at ME, I'm sure of it. And yes, I was wrong about the PS3 and the outcome of a small handful of football matches, but I've been right about everything else I've ever predicted, so this is me getting back on top of things lol.

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Posted: 4th Jan 2008 21:25
Quote: "Does any one know why its called windows 7.............well its because Vista was 6 and so on Lol"


And their codenames are all ski mountains in British Columbia... Whistler, Longhorn, Blackcomb, etc.

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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 00:08
Quote: "But im more intrested in this:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=rP5y7yp06n0"


Aye, then you may find this one interesting as well:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=CZrr7AZ9nCY&feature=related


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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 00:08
Quote: "but I've been right about everything else I've ever predicted, so this is me getting back on top of things lol.
"


Didn't you recently have to send a coke to Bizar Guy because you predicted something wrong there Matt?

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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 01:20
Quote: "Recycle Bin? "


You insult my intelligence........

There is a bug that if you select a file and delete it, if you press the delete key again without first selecting something or changing folder, you delete the folder you are currently viewing.

Quote: "Then, why aren't you still using windows 98, or ME, or 2000 even?"


Because they are outmoded, obsolete, old, I just meant that Vista is so stupidly put together and has so many stupid little bugs that it almost makes me want to go Linux instead!

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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 01:25
What things did you predict right, Matt?

I know, "everything", but specifically what...?

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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 01:46
Quote: "Didn't you recently have to send a coke to Bizar Guy because you predicted something wrong there Matt?"

Yeah, that was for the PS3 prediction though .

Quote: "What things did you predict right, Matt?"

That list will go on for ages. TGC has a magical property, the ability to make my predictions not happen, lol. The only thing I've predicted on TGC and was right about was EE selling more copies than Jeku first predicted, although only barely lol. On my old radio show I was always right, though. I'm going to try and dig up some old recordings of those for proof, knowing you you'll want some lol, but some of the things I predicted on the air back then:

* Broadband would catch on (arguement was that people didn't care for and would never want broadband)
* New York City would pass anti-smoking laws, and New York State would follow suit (kind of wrong, I thought it'd happen within six months of California doing it, but I was eventually right)
* PS1 would be the top console of its generation
* PS2 would be the top console of its generation
* Michael Moore would make a documentary about health care (made that one back when he did Bowling for Columbine)
* Halo would be the biggest seller on the xbox... called it before it was released
* Peter Jackson would "try to remake a serious classic that he shouldn't (mess) with" (expletive deleted) (that might even be on my old website, I'll have to check)
* George Bush would be President, and would do two things he's already done during his Presidency (can't say what specifically, AUP forbids it)
* The Third Matrix movie would suck
* Hillary Clinton would run for President (made that one after she was elected in New York... although in all fairness a lot of other people predicted the same thing)

There's tons and tons more, those are the ones I think of immediately when someone asks about that, and those are the ones that come up most frequently when people I know bring it up. I'm really good at it... predicting stuff is my only natural talent lol. Everything else I had to learn and still struggle with. I already know what you're going to say, it isn't that impressive, but whatever, at least I'm *usually* good at one thing lol.

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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 03:27
Quote: "I just meant that Vista is so stupidly put together and has so many stupid little bugs that it almost makes me want to go Linux instead!"

Haven't seen any yet. The only reason I'm not fond of it, is Backward Compatibly.

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Jeku
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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 08:21
Quote: "Broadband would catch on"


Rofl. Did that one take a lot of effort to predict?

Quote: "New York City would pass anti-smoking laws"


That's a given for any major city in America. They've done it here almost 10 years ago.

Quote: "PS2 would be the top console of its generation"


Again, not really rocket science.

Quote: "EE selling more copies than Jeku first predicted"


I feel horrible. Not because I said that, but because I can't remember saying it. Hehe.

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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 15:59 Edited at: 5th Jan 2008 16:00
That mircrosoft surfus was an nice thingy. But the parody has some valid point. I think it will be best for companys, and for the home it might be good as an easy way of sharing photos between cameras and mobiles, but not really as workstations.

And about windows vienna, I´m quite curius about how it will be. I like that MinWin thing. And I´ve read that they will try and make it less bloated. In time we will se how it will become.

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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 22:00
Hey lol, I never said my predictions were amazing or anything lol. Just instances where someone said I was wrong and I proved to be right.

The arguement against broadband: it's too expensive and new dial-up technology would come along to trump it speed-wise. There was an article in either the Post or the Times claiming that, I argued with it, so my friends said I was nuts lol.

The smoking thing: The arguement there was that New Yorkers would complain about it. They did, a lot, but it didn't stop it from happening anyway.

PS1 and PS2: Forecasting the PS2 wasn't too hard to call, but the PS1, that's one I'm pretty proud of. The N64 was the better console graphically, so everyone thought I was nuts

The EE Thing: I swear you did hehe, I'll find that thread one of these days. I can only access the first page of "My Threads" up top, I think it was older than that. It wasn't said as an insult or anything, or at least I didn't take it as one lol... you were genuinely trying to warn me against making a commercial text adventure, I look back on that as a friendly courtesy really. And you were largely right about it, although I think with good marketing it would've sold better . Speaking of which, I need to do that postmortem over in game design this weekend.

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Posted: 5th Jan 2008 23:48
Quote: "* The Third Matrix movie would suck"


Great prediction there, totally unspecific :/

Think I'll make an amazing infallible prediction as well; the next 100 years or so of world history will 'suck' as well. Pretty sure I'll be proven right


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Posted: 6th Jan 2008 01:12
lol in the face of hordes of Matrix fans, to say the third Matrix movie would be boring as hell and would leave everything open-ended was a good call I think . I never said these were prophecies, just predictions. There's a huge difference there. Try going back in time a few years and telling a Matrix fan the third movie in the trilogy was going to be horrible, I just hope you can duck quickly.

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Posted: 6th Jan 2008 05:01
Well the 2nd movie was not great, so it's not rocket science to assume the 3rd would suck even more.

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Posted: 6th Jan 2008 05:52
Hey Matt, don't worry, we still love you.

What got into me to say that... I dunno.


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Posted: 6th Jan 2008 05:55
Well, the interesting part was that I said it when the first Matrix came out, I figured the second movie would rock and the third movie would be utter crap, because that happens with some trilogies, like the first Star Wars movies for instance... I hated Jedi... Ewoks? Wha?

Besides, I really liked the second Matrix... I'm sure I'm the only person who does lol, my friends make jokes about that sometimes, but I dunno, I enjoyed it... the fight with the million smiths, Roy Jones Jr.'s cameo, the awesome highway scene, I dug it

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Posted: 6th Jan 2008 06:53
Matrix 2 was cool, but I think what made the first better was the originality as it was a completely new concept and original.

Most movies can never out-do their predecessors because people seem to expect the next one to be as innovative and original as the first, however this is almost always impossible.

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Posted: 6th Jan 2008 12:03
Quote: "Besides, I really liked the second Matrix... I'm sure I'm the only person who does lol, my friends make jokes about that sometimes, but I dunno, I enjoyed it..."


So did I. I thought it was so bad, and had so much time over, I saw it over and over again just to learn every small ugly thing. The movie was crap, but I liked finding bad things in it.

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Posted: 9th Jan 2008 21:00
Quote: "There is a bug that if you select a file and delete it, if you press the delete key again without first selecting something or changing folder, you delete the folder you are currently viewing."


I went and tried it. Nothing happened. I made a new folder, put some text documents in it, deleted one, then immediately pressed delete again. Nothing happened.

It permanently deleted the folder without any sort of prompt?

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