Microsoft's Ballmer: Windows 7 is nearly final

January 8, 2009 By JESSICA MINTZ , AP Technology Writer

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Microsoft Corp. CEO Steve Ballmer delivers the keynote address Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2009, at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma)

(AP) -- Microsoft Corp.'s next version of the Windows operating system is almost ready for prime time.

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• Sirussinder - Jan 08, 2009
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  Can I get a refund on Vista seeing your not going to fix admitted problems. You knowingly released Vista with all these probs into the public instead of fixing the OS...and now you want me to buy a new replacement in 1 year? Foff M$ instead I am going to demand windows 7 as a replacement to a product that you did not deliver to begin with!
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• Bob_B - Jan 08, 2009
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  I can tell you why I hate upgrading my OS: install every application and move data from where I had to store it, but now the device drivers don't exist on the new OS. And so it goes, on and on and on...
  
  Where is the sanity?
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• el_gramador - Jan 08, 2009
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  Was there ever?
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• Arikin - Jan 08, 2009
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  The OS is separate from the hardware for a reason... So you can update it every month :-)
  
  Just to clarify, Bill Gates is an "industry pioneer" and salesman. He was never an IT engineer. He bought QDOS (Quick and Dirty Operating System) for $2,000. Dropped the Q and made superficial changes to the internals of an OS someone else programmed.
  
  Steve Ballmer on the other hand was and is a real IT engineer. So hopefully, he will focus more on the stability of the Windows OS instead of hostile buy-outs.
  
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• Icester - Jan 09, 2009
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  What are the advantages of Windows 7 over XP? XP has been very good to me - stable and runs everything (legacy programs). Also, no driver issues.
  
  Now I ask this question seriously. Someone tell me, why would I need to upgrade???
  
  I realize there is a very, very small segment of the population that requires the extra memory space of x64, but you can get than in XP also. Also, there is an even small segment that needs server farms etc., but we are taking about the home-user here.
  
  
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• Valentiinro - Jan 09, 2009
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  What are the advantages of Windows 7 over XP? XP has been very good to me - stable and runs everything (legacy programs). Also, no driver issues.
  
  Now I ask this question seriously. Someone tell me, why would I need to upgrade???
  
  I realize there is a very, very small segment of the population that requires the extra memory space of x64, but you can get than in XP also. Also, there is an even small segment that needs server farms etc., but we are taking about the home-user here.
  
  

  
  
  Windows 7 is being supported and will be updated, XP is no longer being supported? I suppose that is a guaranteed difference.
  
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