NintendoSensei

Microsoft would probably give companies access to the code to make new products Vienna compatible and leave it up to the company to make the older hardware compatible with new drivers

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GPU-8800GT 512MB/G96
CPU-Nehalem

grunion

I smell a can full of sausage.

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Megahalems > TR Ultra Extreme
How do I uninstall Video Card drivers?
How do I see my in game temps?

purdueman

A new OS every 2-3 years would be great because about 2-3 years I get a new computer or do major upgrades so it would be perfect timing.

I really like how they are trying to make the OS small and not so bloated.

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Gillos

"Wake me up when this is released. 2009? Yea right. I remember when Vista was scheduled for a 2004 release. And that was AFTER it was delayed. I can't even recall what the original release date was supposed to be."

"Also did anyone else notice that a lot of the features for gamers that were supposed to be in Vista ended up on XBOX Live instead? Booooooerns"

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"Thank You Bacchus451 for pointing out my misquote."

thenutty1

I wouldn't mind if they had to break come compatibility with stuff to create a truly new and minimalistic OS. They could easily break compatibility with anything before 2000/XP and cut a lot of the fat off the OS

xenophobe

Microsoft gives companies access to the code to make new products XP and Vista compatible. They're called Application Program Interfaces.

What is your opinion about Vista, but what if it didn't have the backwards compatibility with XP?

savagebunny

They Need to stop running away from MS-DOS...that is why I think vista is kinda crap to me but different for other people....I hate How we are trying to get a good gaming system but then Overloaded with all of this Vista Processes that do not need to be there...I am just fine with my 100mb ram using Xp...but they need to go back and use a Windows ME or 95 Kernel...would work alot better...they need to delete everything and remake all this code...and it will work a lot better that any of there old OS's....just love how you can have a p2 300mhz and 128mb Windows 95 machine and will boot up in 3 secs or less while we have duel-core or even Quad-core and 1gb of ram or more and it takes aleast 1 min for Vista to start up FULLY and idle out where it is still not loading crap into Ram

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The Hundred Gunner

Copying Apple again? lol (charging on "non-major" releases, what I'd like to call "Service Packs.")

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"I just talk the way I see things... If that's offensive to you... I'm sorry; you're a loser." - Michael Savage

"But you would be amazed by how many people think that the only reason to have a computer is to play games, and that playing games is all that anyone with a computer does." - dangerousHobo

xenophobe

Umm.... you gotta be kidding.

Run FAST away from DOS. Run FAST away from ME.

Kamakazi

I think they tried something very similar to this with Vista, starting from basically scratch...and you know what happened? People incessantly complained that it was taking WAAAYYY too long to make.