The Future in Computing

September 22, 2008

I am certainly looking forward to the future in computing. There will be so

many opportunities and sky computing certainly looks more promising now as

time goes on. However, I for one am a guy who likes old-school computing

while enjoying new computing as well when it is needed to accomplish the task

at hand. Windows Vista has been available for a while now and now we also

have Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and soon will have Windows 7. Meanwhile,

the browser wars are really heating up and Google has gotten into the act

with its Chrome browser which I have not bothered to try out yet but know I

will eventually try it out on the Windows XP Professional side of my

multi-boot computer and/or maybe on Windows Vista Home Premium (32 bit) in my

laptop computer. I find it annoying that if users buy a new computer so many

of us have to deal with junk that is installed on the computer by default and

it certainly makes me want to go and buy a retail copy of the operating

system and not just deal with an oem version or a defunct and problematic

image of the operating system. In my case, with the Toshiba Laptop computer

the problem falls in my opinion clearly on Toshiba in this case because I

sent it in and the laptop computer was repaired and returned but I had issues

with it upon return. Anyway, I called up Toshiba support and used their cds

to install Windows Vista Home Premium again and it almost installed correctly

but had errors tied with trying to install Microsoft Works on the computer

but that was the only error. Toshiba has now sent me new cds and I will

eventually try again but certainly not now because I am just tired and

annoyed at using the oem version and am about ready to go out and buy a

retail upgrade copy of Windows Vista. The question now is I guess I will try

1 more time to correctly install the Windows Vista Home Premium oem and then

finally get a retail version so I do not have to deal with all the associated

crapware on the machine which is now just about 13 months old. I find time

certainly does fly especially in the world of technology. Finally, I wanted

to send my thanks to everyone in this newsgroup for all of their great

contributions and say Long Live Windows 98 Second Edition which remains my

number 1 operating system and yes my opinion is Microsoft did get it wrong by

choosing the business NT source code instead of the 9x source code but I can

see that Microsoft has a good chance to get it right in the future when their

new operating system based on their new source code is release. Note: It

will not be Windows 7 because this will still be NT based although I know

from Steve Riley, MSFT comments that much of the NT source code has been

reworked and rewritten, the underlying problem in my opinion, is that it

comes down to the foundation of a problematic code that is too limited in

computing nowadays which will indeed eventually thankfully be replaced and NT

finally put to rest and hopefully that will solve many problems. The

question I pose to all of you is will Microsoft be able to have an

all-one-solution with one source code or is it indeed needed that there be

again a business source code and a home based source code that despite the

added cost and complexity is necessary in today's computing environment or is

it just not needed anymore?

September 22, 2008

Re: The Future in Computing

Welcome to the blog dedicated to the engineering of Microsoft Windows 7

http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/08/18/windows_5F00_7_5F00_team.aspx

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Carey Frisch

Microsoft MVP

Windows Desktop Experience -

Windows Vista Enthusiast

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