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New In case "The Matrix Reloaded" wasn't bad enough...
Now we have [link|http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5165966.html?tag=nefd_lede|XP Reloaded] coming!

Cheers,
Ben
"good ideas and bad code build communities, the other three combinations do not"
- [link|http://archives.real-time.com/pipermail/cocoon-devel/2000-October/003023.html|Stefano Mazzocchi]
New Interesting statement
The release of Longhorn is seen as critical for Microsoft, with the company having tied new versions of Office and much of its server software to coincide with the new OS, which Chairman Bill Gates has called the biggest advance since Windows 95.
Microsoft's official position may differ from mine, but I've always thought Windows 95 was primarily a cosmetic change to Windows 3.11. It was still MS/DOS at the core, with a new GUI bolted on. To say that any future release would be the "biggest advance since Windows 95" is saying that neither Windows 2000 nor Windows XP was much of an advance over Windows 95.
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New It's just Bill's usual Market Speak
"We're betting the company!"
"It's the most important operating system, maybe even program, of all time!"
"It's more complex than a 747!"

Yada, yada, yada.

Bill will say anything if he thinks it will get MS favorable attention.

IMHO, of course. :-)

Cheers,
Scott.
New Oh right, forgot about that
Microsoft's marketing ever since about MS/DOS 3.0 has been, "Our last version was crap. This new one is perfect. (And this time, we mean it.) Buy now."
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New Interesting
3.1 -> 95 might have been the biggest leap of all in terms of architecture. Windows OS/2 - er - NT was simple in comparison as a solution to the 16->32 jump.
-drl
New What 16->32 bit jump?
You mean 'thunking'?

That's more of a hop.

3.1 -> NT (with nothing in between) would have been a jump...


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  • Paranoia Is a Survival Trait
  • Pessimists are never disappointed - but sometimes, if they are very lucky, they can be pleasantly surprised...
  • Even though everyone is out to get you, it doesn't matter unless you let them win.


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As hopeless as it seems in the middle,
Or as finished as it seems in the end.
 
 
New I think he means these old threads...
[link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=114268|#114268] and [link|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=114446|#114446] and similar.

Cheers,
Scott.
New Re: What 16->32 bit jump?
Well like OS/2, NT could relegate all 16bit code to a DOS box and be done with it - unfortunately a lot of old code would not run this way because NT's DOS box was brain-dead. Almost all old code would run on Windows 95, it was really an amazing compromise effort. It sucked in an absolute sense next to OS/2, but given the goal of allowing a snap upgrade to 3.1 it was a great success - in the 95b release.
-drl
New 95 was a huge jump
32 bit vs. 16 bit, anyone?

It had a lot of 16 bit crap under the hood, but the application programmers could at last use real virtual memory, not LARGE, HUGE or MEDIUM address model. Eeeks.
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     In case "The Matrix Reloaded" wasn't bad enough... - (ben_tilly) - (8)
         Interesting statement - (drewk) - (7)
             It's just Bill's usual Market Speak - (Another Scott) - (1)
                 Oh right, forgot about that - (drewk)
             Interesting - (deSitter) - (3)
                 What 16->32 bit jump? - (imric) - (2)
                     I think he means these old threads... - (Another Scott)
                     Re: What 16->32 bit jump? - (deSitter)
             95 was a huge jump - (Arkadiy)

Damn, man, you swing a mean left field passive aggressive non sequitur.
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