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Hi everyone. It looks as though this is the right newsgroup for general discussions about Micro$oft for people who have vb installed. The wording of the group's name certainly gives that impression, but if that is not the case then I hope you'll answer my question anyway and then politely redirect me to the correct group, which according to a participant named McCarthy appears to be the right thing to do.

Why have Micro$oft suddenly apparently developed a concscience and why are their senior engineers Steven Sinofsky and Jogn De Vaan suddenly talking about taking an "honest and open approach, something that we did not do before", when we engage people about our forthcoming new version of Windows (Windows 7 or whatever they are currently calling it)?

Do you think that perhaps that this sudden and totally uncharasteristic "honesty and openness" is a cloud (good one that, in the circumstances, cloud!) to engage people so deeply in the details that they forget about the real issues, and that they perhaps forget about the fact that Windows 7 is almost certainly going to be the LAST version of Windows and that it is destined to be replaced by something the Micro$oft fairground gypsies are currently calling Midori, which Micro$oft hope will be the end of the road for purchased operating systems and softyware and the beginning of the road for Steve Ballmer's brave new world in which everything is rented and in which money pours into the Micro$oft coffers automatically without us having to go to the trouble of actually going out to the shop and buying something! And, of course, they are hoping it is also going to be the death knell for virtualization in other rival operating systems. In this brave new world of Ballmer's all our machines are going to need an almost permanent connection to the web, enabling the Micro$oft gypsies to regularly "call home" otherwise many applications, and indeed the OS itself in many cases, will simply cease to work. In fact rumour has it that the bulk of Micro$oft's current programming efforts are currently in developing ways of allowing computers a reasonable amount of "offline time", to account for various problems and other possibilities, without the OS and applications falling down too often on account of lack of connection.

Is this Steve Ballmer's brave new world? Are the Micro$oft fairground gypsies really so cruel and nasty, both to their captive customers and to their competitors. Methinks it is about time the US legislature got their fingers out and got rid of the people who are in Micro$oft's pockets. They need to think about effective ways of reining this bully in.

By the way, a note to Bill McCarthy. You don't need to bother answering this one because you are dishonest and you are in the pay of Micro$oft and I am after honest opinions, which you have shown yourself to be unable to provide.

Mike

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