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What you want from Windows 7

Posted on 14 Oct 2008 at 11:10

A splendid idea, according to Nox, who invented his own acronym for such a phenomenon: "Only load when required (OLWR). Extra daemons and services shouldn't be loaded at startup, waiting years for something to do."

Others are, dare we suggest, a bit too optimistic with system requirements. "I want the core OS to run on anything from Pentium onwards, so the computer can handle having Vista in a virtual machine," said the mysteriously monikered Not Him, who we suspect has an eight-year-old PC in the loft. "If it's able to run on my 200MHz machine then I'll buy it," said James. We'll put him down as a "maybe".

Proper English

There might be a menu in the Regional and Language Options menu that lets you select English (United Kingdom) as your mother tongue, but that don't mean Windows speaks proper, does it? "I've bought a UK version," stated Nick. "So why is everything spelt wrong then? Favorites, Center... durrh!" (We get your drift, Nick, but there's three Rs in durrrh.)

"Whoever suggested Windows 7 should be properly localised is a winner in my opinion," said Loz, giving Nick the benefit of his ringing endorsement. "Quite unacceptable that a company the size of Microsoft can't speak English. As far as I know, Welsh is a language option in Office 2007, but Microsoft shouldn't be bothering until it's finished learning English!" Cue lots of letters from disaffected Welsh speakers. Not that we'll be able to read them, of course...

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