Microsoft and its customers really do need a free version of Windows Server:-

http://www.timacheson.com/Blog/2009/jul/microsoft_must_release_windows_server_express

"Windows Server Express is the single most important and obvious thing missing from Microsoft's strategy."

coool

http://www.undergroundaccess.net/

Chazz Just so you know:Microsoft can't actually do anything withint heir coding for it to us more than 3-3.6GB of RAM thats down to how the binary code works with addressing the bits.

The only way round it is for you to upgrade to XP or Vista 64 Bit which is readily availiable from Microsoft however you may have certain issues with drivers from certain computers.

A mix of Vista and Xp would be great for techies Vista is a very bad platform really everything has been prettiefied but when i want to get down to some diagnostics i have to go around things etc to do it, its not great.

Will they remove the deeply-embedded DRM, or will they still pretend that "users demand it" ?

And if there are still "users" demanding it, can we have their names and addresses so that we can go and hang them, uh, have a chat with them (with a good length of rope) ?

XP SP3 + aeroglass + ability to use more than 3GB RAM. 

That's what Vista SHOULD have been, that's what will make Windows 7 great.

And get rid of UAC which is the Jar Jar Binks of the OS world.

Will it run games faster than XP, unlike Vista?

Will it be easy to change wireless network settings like in XP, unlike Vista (in several different places, wizard and restriction PITA)?

Vista looks pretty, but it's a pain. It's like going from the easy to use and understand Win XP to some version of Linux that looks pretty but is a technical pain for non-techies.

Please can we have XP back? We are even willing to pay DELL an extra £50 per pc for it, please let us keep XP because Vista is fat and pushes up support and training costs.


Microsoft - do you have a "What does the customer want" survey where customers can tell you what we want? I didn't think so ;-)

I'm wondering how long it will be before we see "critical or dissenting" clauses added to those posts getting removed. I need an egg timer.