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Last time I checked, Canada is not part of europe even though it tries very hard to be part of europe :-P.

Muha

What and pakistan is!

Last time I checked, Canada is not part of europe even though it tries very hard to be part of europe :-P.

seems we can still enter, or at least push the buttons on the page, and it doesn't tell us we don't qualify.
pick canada, and it goes, so who knows.

and to Yvo, when the heck was the last time we tried very hard to be apart of europe?
anyone who thinks that has been smoking to much free weed, and tim hortons donuts :-P

next day after lunch date

They kinda have already

blackcomb is the next one right?

Blackcomb is a code name that refered to the next big version of Windows back when Longhorn was only going to be a point release. Now that Longhorn is the big version 6.0 I really don't know what they will do with the Blackcomb name, if anything. There is going to be a point relese after Vista around 2008/9 (like what XP was for 2000 - version 6.1). My guess is that that point release will not be called Blackcomb, but no one really knows at this point.

AFAIK, Blackcomb was supposed to be a rewrite from the ground up of the kernel, and to be marketed for the server industry. i'm guessing we won't be hearing about it til 2011 in the earliest (wow, doesn't that sound like way in the future? like when it was ~95 and you talked about the year 2001 or 2002? when in actuality it's just 5 years from now, just like 2001 was 5 years earlier.. time is tripping me out!.

I would agree that the next major version of Windows will probably be around 2011, but I will not try to guess if it will still be called Blackcomb. It is true that the first iteration of Blackcomb was going to be a server and that a desktop client would follow shortly after based on the same code, but so much has changed sense then that I wouldn't expect that to still be set in the plans. As for being a rewrite from the group up; I don't know how these rumors get started but they simply are not true; Windows 7.0 will no more be a rewrite then Windows 5.0 (2000) or 6.0 (Vista) were. Will there be major changes and enhancements to the kernel, sure; will they remove a lot of old legacy 16 and 32 bit support, probably; but it will not be a rewrite.

yea, you're probably right sphbecker.. i'm commeting on something i picked up way back when Whistler was in development..

so any thoughts on when is Microsoft planning to ditch Windows as a whole and start a new OS from scratch? IMO they've learned a great deal in the past 10 years and are certainly on the right track. they have the best programmers in the world, the only thing holding them back is an almost 20-year-old kernel.. i'm not a "fanboy" in the least, but i think whatever Microsoft pumps out after Windows will be the future of the OS, whether they continue to dominate the market share or not..

I would agree with sphbecker, Blackcomb (or whatever ppl will call it later) will likely not having the kernel write up from scratch. Even all fundamental changes are in Vista now, Vista isn't rewritten too, while the changes are big enough to have a new version (instead of 5.3 or 5..

All of those videos are just funny.

XP was launch officially in late October (25th I want to say), but you could buy new computers with an OEM installation of XP a few weeks before that.

I agree that Vista will probably come around that say time of the year in 2006, but picking an exact date would be like picking lottery numbers.

Yes, it is very possible, unless MS allows you to buy/download on-line (which they have never done for anything other then Plus! enhancement products). However, a CD and box require much less effort to make then an Xbox 360, so I would bet that you would be able to get your hands on a copy pretty quickly.

I am not going to pre-order unless they ship the orders a few days prior to release. Every time I have pre-ordered software I have always found in on the selfs before I receive the order.

Technically an OEM license is only to be used for a newly built system; not to upgrade an existing one. If you buy it along with some kind of hardware upgrade you would probably be okay.

If Vista is anything like XP; then you might be able to get OEM copies before the retail version goes on sale. However, there is a big difference between a company like Dell getting their OEM software and someone building a home computer. The answer; who knows.

Then again, I wouldn't want another windows ME

SPs and subsequent updates couldn't save that, it wasn't the rushing that killed it. besides, including System Restore was a great feature at the time (and the only thing that could help you out when the system exploded).

well, it'll be a good thing that they patched it then. Imagine what ms bashers would say then.

and don't call me a fanboy, I don't even use Windows, but I know I'll be installing it for my parents who can't be bothered to use Linux like everyone else in the family....