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RE: Microsoft makes business case for Windows 7

scorp1us 2nd Oct 2009

Operating systems are now a commodity. I don't understand how your OS will "increase productivity" as the OS is responsible for hardware and your graphical user interface. It is the applications where the productivity enhancements are. Sure they can bundle some apps with it, but all in all, there is no case for a new OS. Windows 2000 was quite nice. The only issue is MS stops the security updates eventually so you have to move to something. What they don't tell you is your savings are eaten by the additional hardware costs needed to run the same thing. It keeps getting bigger and slower. Look at Linux/KDE then they went from 3 to 4, the OS and apps (for kde4) actually ran better - faster and smaller. The whole idea of paying for OS upgrades and specific version numbers needs to die. If there is a computer, it needs an OS, and it needs the latest security patches. The whole "I'm limited by my OS so I'll pay for en upgrade" ended with windows 2000. Since then its been false versioning.