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Windows 7: Hey, It Won't Be Vista!

Microsoft seems ready to stop pretending that Vista will ever gain wide acceptance. Just take a gander at this story's headline: "Microsoft vows Windows 7 will fix Vista mistakes."

Mistakes? Vista? Anyway, Microsoft did demo Windows 7 at PDC this week, and it does seem kind of cool.

Vista, we hardly knew ye...and we didn't really want to.

Posted by Lee Pender on October 29, 2008


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