Re: [tlug] [ot] Windows 7

[steven smith <sjs@example.com>]

Phillip Tribble wrote:
> Wayne wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 08:58 -0400, Scott Robbins wrote:
> >  
> > > > It looks good, dam good! I now feel shame =( . I sure hope kde 4.1
> > > will blast  this!
> > > >       
> > > Remember that's a demo.  It's like a demo of showing how well Ubuntu
> > > works.  Then, you put it on a new laptop and there's no wireless, X is
> > > all distorted, and the volume control and function keys don't work. 
> > >
> > > Here, in the US, we call it...."Advertising."   :)
> >
> > And when it finally, if ever, ships, all those neat features you saw in
> > the demo will have been stripped out and all you'll get is a different
> > wallpaper and start icon :)
> >
> > Wayne

Don't forget you'll need another 4Gb, a quad processor and 
special accelerated graphics card and twice the hard drive. 
And I didn't actually see him do anything but bring up 
different interfaces.

It seems strange they're hyping the next OS when they can't 
sell the one they're pushing now.  Last I read, they're 
thinking about not stopping shipments on June 30 of XP.