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Re:If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7 on Thursday January 01, 2009 @11:58PM (#417062)
http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/archive/2008/11/20/happy-anniversar...

They were inspired by some of the things in Windows 1.0

Re:If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7 on Thursday January 01, 2009 @11:55PM (#417060)
Well, when it was demo'd at PDC, it was on a Netbook, and it was still snappy, and had the eye candy. (http://arstechnica.com/journals/microsoft.ars/2008/10/28/ars...)
Re:If you love Windows XP, you’ll hate Windows 7 on Thursday January 01, 2009 @11:54PM (#417059)
As the article points out, you can set everything to act like XP. It also gives good rationalization for all of the changes discussed.
Re:Microsoft getting ready to lay off 17% of staff on Wednesday December 31, 2008 @06:30PM (#416027)
As an employee, I assure you that we are fully allowed to criticize the company internally.