Digital BW, The Print

pr_roark wrote:
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> "Dana H. Myers" <dana.myers@...> wrote:
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>  > Windows 7 ..., despite marketing attempts to portray it as
>  > a new OS, it's not. Windows 7 is largely based on the same
>  > code as Vista - ...
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> My nephew in MS is on the Windows 7 team, and it definitely sounds like 
> a Vista-based OS.

How could it be anything else?

> Vista was really new code -- thus the problems. 
> Windows 7 sounds more like a cleaned up version, but it's also more than 
> just a re-branding job. It appears a lot of work went into the effort. 
> They certainly think it'll have fewer teething problems.

A lot of work went to fix the problems with Vista - they could have
called it Vista SP3, but they didn't.  Clearly a re-branding effort to
sever ties with Vista.

Dana