
By Robert Vamosi
Published: Wednesday 29 October 2008
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Karen Challinor
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UK
Occupation
staring at clouds
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in my experience one of the first things to be removed on any business machine running windows is windows messenger, so requiring it as part of the logon doesn't seem a sensible step
apart from having slightly more control over the UAC it doesn't seem to have anything major to get people to buy it, although if it's performance is anything like vista then I can see the need for applications that tell you your PC is working
as for the "post-it" gadget thats been around as freeware since windows 95
you want to impress us, try harder
Now we know why Window 7 appeared so quickly after...
Anonymous
'Pre-beta'? That would be 'Alpha' then?
One is al...
Robert Wingfield
actually, dull as windows might seem, it's a lot m...
drew stephenson
in my experience one of the first things to be rem...
Karen Challinor
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