Windows 7 Release Candidate due date is May 5
Summary: Looks like Microsoft's March slip-up that pinpointed the next milestone delivery date was correct. The Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) -- the one and only public RC -- is set to be available on May 5.
Looks like Microsoft's March slip-up that pinpointed the next milestone delivery date was correct. The Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) -- the one and only public RC -- is set to be available on May 5.
I've been hearing Windows 7 Server, a k a Windows Server 2008 R2, also will be out in RC form the same day.
Still no absolute confirmation on what the build number will be for the RC. One thing is for sure: Windows 7, both client and server, are almost soup. (I'm still hearing this fall, most likely October, will be the official release date.)
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One billion people care about this, so who cares what you think...
Horse manure...
Most of the others seldom have anything nice to say about Microsoft. Some come off as fairly impartial (Larry Dignan), some come off as dinosaur fossils (Jason Perlow), while those covering the Mac and Linux beats tend to show hard core favoritism for their particular brand of choice.
Like it or not, ZDNet does have a mostly balanced team of bloggers/reporters. If you don't want to read about Microsoft or Windows 7 related stories, then why not go read the Mac or Linux blogs instead?
It seems to me the only reason you bothered to click on the link to this article was so you could post a rather LAME troll. Aren't you just special. How long did it take you to come up with that tidbit? Sheesh.
You put Mary Jo in the Microsoft camp?
No.. But her posts ARE generally positive towards MS.
She simply reports the facts, without negativity. Then again, she reports on MS for a living. She only expresses herself in what could only be called a professional and unbiased manner.
MJ Reports
RE: MJ Reports
Ed however, is extremely factual and very methodical in his examination of everything Microsoft. If you do truly look at their products, there is little to be upset about. Though most Bloggers and their repliers are often blown away by the most simple of things. (The sky is falling! syndrome...)
Every other reporter at ZDNet is either an Apple Zealot or a Linux Zealot who try to find every little thing they can to gripe about the #1 OS in the World. To a point of stupidity from what I see. If Windows doesn't float your boat, fine. But to actually try to make money by writing articles bashing it into the ground? Where's the good in that? Fortunately most Windows centric reporters are smarter, and don't see the need or reason to bash other OSes into the ground.
just call me Ms. Emotional :)
Remember, everyone: This site is part of a blog network. Opinion is supposed to be part of what we write. And to the readers who complain all I write about is Microsoft, the name of this blog is "All About Microsoft."
Thanks for reading, fans and foes! MJ
Ed Bott? You are wrong.
M$ owns the cash, they choose the music
Oh, that is so true!
Anyway, I was telling my mom that M$ owns ZD NET and she's like "totally".
That means Linux is ready for the masses!
That's absolutely correct, Linux is ONLY for us nerds!!
Just forget Linux for the rest of the world - we've lost that battle big time. M$ is truly King with a capital 'K', they've the 105mm cannons and 16" guns, all we Linux users have in our arsenal are slingshots. Just forget it.
If we'd really and truly wanted to compete with M$ then about 10-15 years ago we would have taken the best of Linux and built a proper native Win32 code compatible O/S to run in parallel with Windows. BUT WE DID NOT. Now it's far too late. And now M$ has no competition whatsoever.
A Win32-compatible O/S could have at least competed in the same ball park with Windows; we'd have at least played with the same rules. Windows and Linux are not only in different ballparks but in practice they're so far apart as to be in different countries.
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A lesson from ancient history. Anyone who owned a Tandy TRS80 will remember Tandy's TRSDOS operating system. Well, back then along came an API-compatible superstar O/S called NEWDOS-80 which relegated TRSDOS to the junk-heap. Everything that ran on TRSDOS also ran better on NEWDOS as native code.
Windows and Linux are non-API compatible O/Ses and vastly different to boot. Why are we even bothering to mention them in the same breath?
Stupidity that's why.
Then bow to...
I prefer not to too, but there's no choice.
My approach is to use Linux in industrial control applications, servers etc. and Windows where humans hang out.
Not only does it make economic sense, but it also makes the site easier to manage. This approach means way fewer tantrums from Windows users forced to cold-turkey on Linux machines.
Debating linux again?
I use RHEL, Fedora, and Ubuntu 90% of the time; I've got my family using it too. It's reliable, fast, and easy to use, but I don't feel the need to troll around in forums preaching to other nerds about the virtues of linux. They already know and don't care what you think.
Well you obviously do
Otherwise, you wouldn't have responded to his message.
;)
Attacks instead of constructive criticism
I recognize everyone?s right to freedom of speech. It is too bad people don?t use it to say something. If you do not find the articles useful and feel the site is biased, find a different site and don't raise your blood pressure reading things you don't like.
That's just the way it is
On ZDNet, attack is the rule in the comments. It really stinks, and it certainly costs ZDNet readers (and money).
They should have a full-time troll-killer on staff. They'd look for phrases and words like Windoze, MacN00b, etc.
Never happen...