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Subject: OT - Stunning Microsoft Announcement.

Kenmac opened this issue on Apr 01, 2007 · 6 posts
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Kenmac ( ) posted Sun, 01 April 2007 at 10:16 AM · edited Sun, 12 January 2025 at 3:59 AM

I just read about this a few minutes ago and to say I was surprised would be
an understatement. Check this out.

Bill Gates and Steve Ballmers surprising announcement.

Today Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and Chief Executive Officer Steve
Ballmer have announced plans to make previous versions of the Windows
operating system freely available from the Microsoft website. First to be
offered will be Windows 95. When asked why Bill Gates said; "Well, we've
seen open source software become better and better over the years and there
are applications such as Open Office, The Gimp and many others that are as
good, if not better, than commercially available software."

Steve Ballmer replied; "This is one of the reasons why we're making Windows
freely available. We'll also be releasing a developers kit so people can
customize whichever version of Windows they download to their liking."

To which Mr. Gates added; "We'll be releasing each Windows version on a 3
month basis. This time around it will be Windows 95 and in July, Windows 98
will be available for downloading. We'll also be providing the professional
and NT versions on the website."
"We're calling it 'Windows Your Way'." added Mr. Ballmer. "Windows XP, Home
and Professional versions however, won't be available until January of 2008,
6 months after Windows 98."
When asked about Windows Vista, Mr. Gates replied that he doesn't forsee it
being freely available until at least a 3 to 5 year waiting period.

BTW when the installer is run it lets you pick and choose what you do and
don't want to install. The downloads are split up so even people with a 56k
modem won't have many problems downloading. For some reason it isn't on
Microsofts frontpage so I did a little digging around and found where it is.
I had to use TinyURL as the link is a little long. Here it is:
http://tinyurl.com/8lqm

tekmonk ( ) posted Sun, 01 April 2007 at 10:20 AM · edited Sun, 01 April 2007 at 10:21 AM

Attached Link: http://www.google.com/tisp/

Nice try :P, my fav was this one:

Acadia ( ) posted Sun, 01 April 2007 at 10:22 AM

Happy April Fools!!!!

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi


Kenmac ( ) posted Sun, 01 April 2007 at 10:34 AM

Yes Tekmonk, somebody already posted that one on a newsgroup this morning.

Miss Nancy ( ) posted Sun, 01 April 2007 at 2:38 PM

would that be legume's poser group? how are those mischievous artists doing these days, ken?


Kenmac ( ) posted Sun, 01 April 2007 at 5:50 PM

Quote - would that be legume's poser group? how are those mischievous artists doing these days, ken?

 
No, it was another newsgroup I check out occasionally. The Poser newsgroup is still going strong and many of the regulars are still posting. We've got a few new people now as well. Drop by sometime.

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