AntiHero

January 30, 2009 at 3:06pm

Open source has become more and more popular i've noticed since the release of Windows Vista. Really Microsoft did themselves in with Vista, since nothing supported it on release, and they are now phasing out 32bit which is gonna make every company in the world that makes software have to re-design for x64 (most won't want to). I have Home Premium X64 and trust me...it takes effort to get some things to work, i actually can't use Flash Player on my x64 IE7...i don't use IE7, but it's the principle of the matter, most of the world still does use IE7...if they're on x64 and not able to use flash...they're in to download a new browser that Macromedia supports. Windows 7 is good though...i'll admit that. (Still not better than Unix, which i try to use as often as possible) . If more and more companies start focusing on Linux more than they have in the past (Steam is going to i hear), i can forsee Windows becoming as popular as OSX...people who like it will love it forever, people who don't use it, will bash it, and people like me will say it's great for what it was made to do

ghot

January 30, 2009 at 11:06am

 ....very upset, lol.  But word of advice to Intel:  Best include support for ALL processors and graphics solutions....at least before MS does    hehe :)

 

Take efficiency, and edit out all the intelligence and what you have left is a post-XP Microsoft operating system :)

Vadi

January 30, 2009 at 9:16am

They've been at this for a while actually, this is version 2 of it. They're using Clutter (opengl-powered graphical toolkit) for the interface too, so it should be all 3d-ey and nice.

 @poster: they bought the company that developed clutter and are continuing to release it as open-source, so it's all good

dc10ten

January 30, 2009 at 8:17am

If intel releases some code on enhancements they make on linux, I'd be all for it.