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Should Microsoft make a laptop?

Posted By: KingCobra | Apr 16th @ 1:26 PM

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Posted By: 8026mn | Jun 4th @ 5:36 PM
YES! YES! YES!  I'd love to see MS on an EQUAL standing as Apple is with there hardware that they constantly update to make sure there price points are ALWAYS the same and never any lower .  They do refreshes every so often just to make sure you have the latest technology, however the price is always the same for the low end, middle, high end laptops and desktops.  It would also allow MS to control like apple all parts of the deployment showing us what Windows really can do when designed properly.  I would even go to say I'd like them to be the only HW Vendor for Windows Similar to Apple AND get rid of the DRM with proper hardware design that allows us not to worry about DRM in windows.  I would really like that integrated with my Windows Live Userid so no matter how many times I reinstall it as long as I'm just running only 1 copy on whatever hardware I dont have any worries about DRM and Activiation issues.  I think drivers issues would be a thing of the past and everything would work great since MS can now control the driver creation and distribution via Windows Update and it would just work.  I would also like to see x64 be ONLY one available with no option for x32 OS's and use HyperV as a way to Virtualize XP and provide compatability with x32 based apps and older applications allowing MS to drop all of the compatability overhead that exists today with WOW64 and things that would be no longer needed and focus on the future of the OS.  With that, I would like to see a Split Screen Abillity between Windows 7 lets say and XP  OR like bootcamp  allow you to restart into either OS depending on what you want to do.  HyperV should be the Base level of all OSes going forward with drivers being put into the parent VM and MS controlling the driver creation process and update process.  If that could happen look what you got Virtualization layer which you can run any OS ontop of it similar to 2008 HyperV on bare hardware and really control the whole thing which it seems is what HAL tried to do but really wasn't that great as it didn't seperate the two layers as the virtualizion or hypervisor really does now.  I would like UAC to turn into what it should i.e. everyone should be forced to run as a user account for everything, even installing applicaitons and have it not allow you to install as a administrator to make sure all developers code correctly and write to places in the OS where they are supposed to write to however like unix/linux still allow administrators to switch to an increased security context where we can do work w/o any annoying UAC prompts and do that only once.   I would also love to see context sensitive script creation .  Lets say your creating a new user and you put in all of the options or whatever and want to save it as a script so you can do 50 more of the same task, there should be a simple right click option to sent do script file or clipboard like sql server has in sql 2005/2008 but at the windows level instead for all of the tasks you can think of to automate setup and customization.


This is just my lowly optionion and putting it out there for people to think about and take as far as they can with.
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Re: Should Microsoft make a laptop?

Posted By: gypsy.Itsaga | Jun 3rd @ 5:15 PM
If Microsoft can come up with a system, either desktop or notebook, maybe they will come up with one that works with Vista???
At the moment, I am on a hunt to replace this with an XP; enough is enough..... Ciao
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Re: Re: Should Microsoft make a laptop?

Posted By: knightly | Apr 21st @ 11:52 AM

Why not make a laptop? End users would benefit with one stop shopping like the Mac model, although the DOJ may not like it. Personally, I kind of miss the days with very small HCLs, and given many people's experience with Vista, then downgrading to XP, maybe a MS made Vista laptop that really performed would be a hit.
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Re: Should Microsoft make a laptop?

Posted By: ibtaya | Apr 19th @ 7:20 PM
No, this would be a huge mistake for Microsoft and for the tech world in general.  I enjoy that other vendors worry about making hardware more affordable and Microsoft worries about making software compatible.  To join Microsoft in the hardware market would invite (not that they aren't already trying) other vendors to start developing an OS that would not compare to Microsoft.  In the end we would probably have an OS that lags in developement and hardware that is way to expensive.
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Re: Should Microsoft make a laptop?

Posted By: michaelsainz | Apr 17th @ 1:48 PM

I wouldn't mind seeing some design concepts from MS. I think they did at one point to drive up interest for OEM vendors to compete with Apple in this area, but I can't remember if laptops were in any of the mockups.
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Should Microsoft make a laptop?

Posted By: Keith Combs | Apr 16th @ 1:26 PM

Should Microsoft make a screaming laptop the clearly demonstrates Windows Vista running as it should run?  Would this "reference platform" sell?  What risk would there be to our existing partner channel by doing something so bold?

 
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