Today, D. Spencer Hines made these interesting comments ...

Spence, I do have to politely ask you to soften a bit, this IS an
XP NG, not a speculative blog for MS future products. If I had
waited for simple 4-function calculators to be what I wanted, I
would still be waiting, the same as I would still be waiting for
my first car to be all that I want it to be and none of the
things I want it not to be.
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> Microsoft Vienna may well be worth the wait, if it is indeed
> as radical a redesign as this indicates:
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>
> 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.[/color]

I used to be All Things Mopar but changed last summer. It simply
means I have a 2006 Dodge Charger R/T with the 5.7L HEMI in it,
and have always loved the Chrysler hemispherical engines all the
way back to the 1951 FirePower. No sinnister stuff, I promise!
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> 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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HP, aka Jerry