That is correct. I heard the huge bucks it made comes from the Microsoft Office pack sales not from Windows. Microsoft understands quite well 'money makes the world go round'.
a machine addicted move might be on the list sometimes in the future like the fruit comp does and enterprises might have to pay some fees to run their office machines somehow with any windoze editions. Any time soon nobody builds an own machine at home with single parts, come on I did this years ago since there was no "real" thing available but nowadays, most stuff is good enough to feed the crowd
One thing for sure, the times are changing. Will be interesting to see how the world of computers looks in a few years. ETA - I will adapt to each change as it comes along. One thing at a time...
do you remember? It was before 8 came out at the very beginning of Canouna's board .... lol Unfortunately I made no records of my blabla
I do remember, Winunleaked, great times! I had email notifications set up, maybe I can find it in my email archives...
LOL, not "win9 will be free", it's "free upgrade for XP". btw, how's that little conspiracy project of "let's silence that Faikee jerk so he can't bitch MJF" going?
Not even wanting to follow this thread anymore due to the multiple times its been derailed for stupid s**t. I also think we need to get a new topic started that's just used for information, not discussion, a megathread that people cant be spamming and flaming on. That's just me, though. I try to come back here and check every day but its just non-sense now and nothing as far as anything new.
You are right, but this thread is advertised as a discussion on future windows products and it is one of the main section in the MDL forums, so naturally people(irrespective of their post numbers or even non-members) come regularly to see if any information(relative to the topic that was mentioned in the thread title) is been posted. But most of this thread is filled with name-calling, making fun of others, trying to prove him/herself right & putting their own personal agenda. And all this coming from the so called 'experienced members'(in terms of 'number of posts', which seems to be the 'yardstick' to measure the worthiness of a post of a member, rather than on it's content). If this thread is in 'Chit Chat' section of this forum, no one even cares what's going on in it, because guests as well as the members who don't post regularly, for various reasons(myself don't post regularly as many of the topics that are discussed in the main sections of this forum are too techy for me & I don't feel I can make any constructive contribution to those threads), visit this forum just to get some quality information, which is generally what you expect from a thread(& from the experienced members participating in it) in MDL forum. But this thread is entirely different, as one of the experienced member 'Murphy78' put out in one of his post #1559 "I don't believe I've seen such an accusatory tone in MDL before"(I was about post at that same time, I've even typed my post, but after seeing Murphy78's post which contains the same thoughts that I wanted to share & that too from an experienced member, I backed-off). That's why people who usually read the information & go away, posting their opinions about this thread in this thread itself. The more amusing thing & irony is that the posts(like raider89's post#1687) are being questioned instead of questioning or reporting the name-calling, mocking posts that are abundant in this thread(agree that raider89 shouldn't use terms like 's**t'). At least he doesn't have thousands of posts to his name, out of which hundreds are just for making fun of others & name calling. Please don't mistake me being pointing you out and(or) any particular person, as I've nothing against any person of this forum(because I rarely ever post anything here). And I'm not even supporting any person either, but this thread just leaving so much bad-impression on this wonderful forum. I know I'm not doing any constructive or useful contribution to this thread by this post of mine & I do know I receive some flak for this, but I couldn't stop myself posting this(I've already stopped myself on 2-3 occasions posting in this thread requesting others to stop flame wars, name-calling, mocking & unnecessary agenda of proving themselves to be right). Apologies, if I hurt anyone's feelings by this post. Edit: I just found out 'Raider89' had also registered in this forum in the same year as I did(although he did so some 9 months earlier), so before some 'intelligent' people coming out saying it's just my duplicate a/c and I'm posting all this to support him, let me inform you I'm not even remotely related to that a/c or person. Any one can verify it if they feel so.