ZDNet writes:
"I have to thank Santa for leaving me a copy of Windows 7 beta 1 in my stocking for Christmas Day. This beta (build 6.1.7000.0.081212-1400) should be the first and only beta from Microsoft of Windows 7, and I'm pleased to report that it's a good one."
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
This is how Vista suppose to be. Can't wait for this OS.
Same exact thing happened when they brought out Windows ME. They were unable to get XP finished and decided to push that abortion of an OS out the door. Vista is nothing more than the modern day version of ME. Hopefully Windows 7 will be to Vista what XP was to ME.
its just kinda a resource hog that's all
it rarely does crash
cant wait for version 7
I love vista... it's the OS I use mostly.
Vista was a victim of Apple's "Hello I am a PC" campaign and companies like Dell, HP and other that in order to keep selling computer... added the famous, "Windows Vista Compatible"...
Vista works perfectly specially after SP1... with the proper hardware...
Windows 7 will improve in areas like supporting less powerful hardware, quicker boot and multi-touch screen.... ohh and gesture ala Surface...
My wife who's a graphic designer is going to love using a touch screen instead of a drawing pad.
I run Vista Premium (SP2 beta)on my 24" iMac. To the point now, I use it more than my Mac native os.
With enough ram (3gb for me) and a dual core, Vista is by far the most stable and user friendly os MS has ever produced.
I agree, those who complained about vista either did not have the right setup or worse still, followed like sheep and believe a few horror stories as universal.
People still do not understand superfech and see ot a a memory hog just because some ram is pre-allcoated but released if needed
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