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Old 06-20-2009, 05:10 PM
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Re: W7 stuff

Somewhere on teh intarwebs AJL wrote:
> "BillW50" <BillW50@aol.kom> wrote:
>
>> I think Windows XP will still be around in 10 years.

>
> DOS is "still around" after 25+ years so by your loose definition that
> prediction is likely correct. But I doubt that more than one percent
> of users (hobbyists) will be using XP in ten years. If Vista hadn't
> been such a debacle I wouldn't have given it 5 years...
>
>> I am sure Microsoft doesn't like this.

>
> They have taken notice. A version of W7 is designed for netbooks.


Is it still cripled so as to only run three applications at a time?
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Old 06-20-2009, 05:10 PM