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Windows 7 will be front and center when Microsoft's CEO takes the Sin City stage at 6:30 p.m. PST. CNET News will be blogging it live here.

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by eltoro2827 January 7, 2009 5:46 PM PST
Good for MS......cause google this and google that was getting on my nerves.
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by JuggerNaut January 7, 2009 6:40 PM PST
Consumers, Consumers, Consumers, Consumers!
Consumers, Consumers, Consumers, Consumers!
Consumers, Consumers, Consumers, Consumers!

I can hear that pep talk now :-)
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by ReadyAim January 7, 2009 7:33 PM PST
3.1,95,98,ME,2000,XP,Vista, and now "7". A meaningless naming system, unless its intentionally meant to confuse, is unexplainable. Ever since 3.1, - with no 3.0, 2.0, or 1.0, I've watched with amazement as the names kept being off-the-wall and illogical. These titles will not create a legacy but a hodge-podge.
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by kylebuttermore January 7, 2009 7:44 PM PST
who cares what it is named, as long as it works
by Wei_Zhu January 7, 2009 8:06 PM PST
It is easier if you think about generation of the core of OS. For example: Win95, win98 and Win me are all using the generation of core OS.

Windows 3 => 3.1
Windows 4 => 95,98, Me
Windows 5 => 2000, XP
WIndows 6 => Vista
Windows 7
by websterphreaky January 7, 2009 7:57 PM PST
Hey "by ReadyAim"!!

Sorry, but there WERE Windows 1.0 (I still have the floppies) and a beta 2.0 that was never released, and there WAS a Windows 3.0 (I still have the floppies).!! So 3.1 succeeded 3.0.

ME meant Millenium Edition of 98 (year released 1998) which succeeded 95 for 1995! 2000 was for the YEAR TWO THOUSAND!

Then MS announced and publicized that they were dropping YEAR nomenclature (because like Apple and Mac OS X, MS was always late).

XP stands for? The official Microsoft answer is it stands for eXPerience.

And VISTA is easy - Virtually Indestructible, Superior To Apple



[CNET editors' note: Offensive content deleted.]
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by random truth January 7, 2009 8:29 PM PST
I would not say that Vista is more Indestructable and more Secure than Mac OS X. The Presentation had more interesting stuff than apples though. Some of the stuff demoed here is really cool. But what is the point of a flexable display? Would'nt it bend when you are trying to use it, or am I missing something...
Any ways, I hope that windows seven comes out soon and it is not going to turn into another windows longhorn. I've been tempted by vistas interface, but I cant take that big of a hit to performance again.(p.s. I downloaded a longhorn alpha and it was pretty stable and had some cool eye candy).
by ReadyAim January 7, 2009 8:46 PM PST
If all the above explanations are true, than it proves my point. We average morons need a reference book to explain the sources for those names (since no sane person would intentionally ask You.) At least IE versions stayed logical -- obviously different folks doing the naming.
by goodspeed8701 January 7, 2009 9:38 PM PST
readyaim.

It doesn't matter what name it is called, as the name is not what makes the operating system work. Get a life.
by Penguinisto January 8, 2009 9:01 AM PST
Actually, Windows 2.0 was commercially available - my ancient (and long-gone) Amstrad 2286 came with it. It lived on in part as DOSSHELL.exe for a very long time after 3.0...

/P
by shinji257 January 8, 2009 9:40 AM PST
@random truth: That's the whole point. I think the demo was just a grasp of what can be done but imagine getting your newspaper on a flexible display...
by johnson-polo January 7, 2009 7:58 PM PST
I think that the coolest part of the demos we saw involved the woman showing the windows-live services.
Combining my existing hotmail contacts and the new Live search was awesome. She added the restaurant address, star-ratings, and contact information, directly into her mail.
I also saw other options to be movies, maps, images and videos.

swe33t!
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by ppgreat January 7, 2009 8:14 PM PST
Wow. And I thought the Macworld speech was boring....
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by kakku85 January 7, 2009 8:50 PM PST
wow really a great Article.... Let see at wht extent miscrosoft has improved their new OS in compare to vista...
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by goodspeed8701 January 7, 2009 9:47 PM PST
M$ will make a good impression this year. although vista was a great Os which run flawlessly om my vista capable xp machine which happens to be Hp dv6125ea the only driver i needed was for the card reader. and after i install service pack one things got aloy better and now i am on sp 2 better. i gave Osx a try. it was great but its not the world most advanced Os for what i saw and experience. Its not a complete os cos it has its limits. i never used its with paralel or bootcamp cos of the hype the comes with it. which is how advanced it is.
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by Inconnux January 7, 2009 11:44 PM PST
Better hurry up and finish Win7 before more people (like myself) switch to apple! Im sticking with xp now but I refuse to use that nightmare OS 'Vista'. (Yes Ive used it, Yes I hate it even if you call it 'mohave')
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by Hep Cat January 8, 2009 12:40 AM PST
Snore.
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by bayahibo January 8, 2009 5:54 AM PST
"6:38 p.m.: Ballmer said he got a series of messages from an "eclectic group" of people today. Showing fake IMs from Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich, Treasure Secretary Henry Paulson, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang, and others."
Others, like the the elected President?
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by DCataneo January 8, 2009 1:34 PM PST
"by websterphreaky January 7, 2009 7:57 PM PST
Hey "by ReadyAim"!!

And VISTA is easy - Virtually Indestructible, Superior To Apple"

Superior to Apple? Perhaps in MS's dreams. VISTA actually stands for Virus, Infection (Instability), Spyware,
Trojans, Adware
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by  Brian January 8, 2009 4:21 PM PST
The GUI of Windows has always been superior than the Mac OS X, but the Mac is so superior in every other way.
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