Most companies that start again from scratch go broke.

Perhaps Microsoft will build new technologies into Vienna like they built
virtualisation and search into Vista - hold on, they were in 2000 and XP
too.

So look at features you already have then get ready to upgrade so you will
use them. Because the evidence is if MS doesn't say it's a feature noone
will use it.

"D. Spencer Hines" <poguemidden********.com> wrote in message
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> Microsoft Vienna may well be worth the wait, if it is indeed as radical a
> redesign as this indicates:
> --------------------------------------------------
>
> Windows Vienna - opening a new generation of operating systems
>
> September 7, 2006
>
> In the past 20 years, the Microsoft Windows operating system has
> accumulated
> old code libraries that brought it to the size it has today, 2.5 GB and
> about 50 million lines of code (Windows Vista).
>
> These old code libraries consume resources and are often the targets of
> security exploits.
>
> The best way to avoid such problems, is to start from scratch, which is
> close to what Microsoft plans to do with Windows Vienna.
>
> Windows Vienna will represent the start of a different generation of
> operating systems, bringing in new concepts and support for new types of
> hardware, along with a better security and a modular approach, which will
> allow future versions of Windows to be built more easily on Windows
> Vienna's
> engine.
>
> It is also likely that the future success of Microsoft's products will be
> strongly decided by the success of the new generation operating system.
>
> <http://www.windowsvienna.com/>
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>
> STARTING FROM SCRATCH...
>
> Sounds Quite Sensible...
>
> Waiting for Vienna, if one can, sounds increasingly attractive.
>
> XP Pro SP2 is a sweet OS.
>
> Vista may turn out to be as transient and inconsequential as Millennium --
> IF we can have Vienna in 2009.
>
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>
> New, But Associated Subject:
>
> I agree with Jerry, "HEMI-Powered" [what's your moniker mean, Jerry?],
> that
> I will NEVER leave any of my machines alone at night -- or any other
> time --
> to do a DEFRAG or a DISK IMAGE or a WINDOWS or AV UPDATE -- all by ITSELF.
>
> So, this silly-buggers business of "scheduling a weekly backup/download at
> 3AM" is absurd.
>
> I also will never allow the cursed AUTOMATIC UPDATES on any of my
> machines -- even for my Anti-Virus/Anti-Spyware programs and Windows
> Update -- which would love to put IE7 on all my machines if I let it --
> because MS insists IE7 is a "CRITICAL UPDATE".
>
> Baloney et Twaddle!
>
> DSH
>
> Lux et Veritas et Libertas
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