[Newsbot]

Title: Microsoft's Ballmer touts 'best version of Windows ever'
Category: Tech
Posted By: Eisensapper
Date: 2009-01-08 10:14:41

[roger-roger]

$1:

As if to prove his point, Ballmer also welcomed onstage program manager Janet Galore, who gave brief demos of some Microsoft product prototypes, including a tabletop-like touch screen and a flexible, wafer-thin digital screen you can roll up like a piece of paper.

Now that would be fucking cool!

[bootlegga]

"Best version ever" is usually about 10 patchs, upgrades, and versions after the original release...

[SigPig]

They had the best version of windows ever. It was called XP.

[roger-roger]

Never the less Im probably going to buy it when it comes out

[SigPig]

Im gonna wait to see how it is then decide between that and a macbook. Currently the Mac is in the lead for me.

[commanderkai]

I still find Vista to be the best, outside of the memory issue.

[Heavy_Metal]

Eisensapper Eisensapper:

$1:

As if to prove his point, Ballmer also welcomed onstage program manager Janet Galore, who gave brief demos of some Microsoft product prototypes, including a tabletop-like touch screen and a flexible, wafer-thin digital screen you can roll up like a piece of paper.

Now that would be fucking cool!

talk about technology mirroring science fiction eh

[Terence]

The last time I was impressed was Windows 3.11 for Workgroups.

[Yogi]

I want to see MS come up with some sort of compensation for those of us who got stuck/screwed with Vista when we purchased computers/laptops that came pre-loaded. I got a quote of a few hundred $$$ to change to XP. New harddrive and another copy of XP.

[hurley_108]

[Canadaka]

I really think Windows 7 will be the best. The benchmarks coming out from Beta1 already Beat XP and Vista on almost all tests.

[roger-roger]

nice, Im just going to have to swallow that $300+ pill for the new OS.

[hurley_108]

7 may be alright. 98 was good, Millennium Edition sucked balls, XP was good, Vista sucked balls, so we're due for a good one.

[hurley_108]

Eisensapper Eisensapper:

nice, Im just going to have to swallow that $300+ pill for the new OS.

Find a small, local vendor of misc parts. They may sell you an OEM copy on its own, or they may let you take one if you buy a new optical drive or something else relatively trivial you may need anyway. Could save a few bucks.