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Originally Posted by Torx
well, so is their line of windows os's, they look the same, have been the same, just tweaked visually every release. this is no different than ubuntu or what palm was doing years ago. Just because were getting a slew of new OS's doesnt mean microsoft should start from ground up. Although i and everyone else would like to see that, its not going to happen. Years from now iphone and android will still look the same, just minor tweaks here and there to stay up to date.
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No, its not like Ubuntu. Ubuntu is a distribution, which is a packaging up of both the core OS and a large massive pile of apps, all in a nice "this should work" package.
With Ubuntu, you get OS updates. Often. Like Magic. Twice a year, you get a whole distro update which you can choose to migrate too. If you don't not much will change other then bugfixes, AND kernel (OS) updates.
Going from 2.4x to 2.6 kernels is what we're talking about here if we are going to use linuxspeak as the metaphor. It's time to move forward...
What we are seeing with windows is the old Windows CE Core that has been around since windows mobile 5. No MAJOR change in the core OS. Nada. For like, er, 5 years now.
We keep hoping to see Windows CE 6 core come out. We wait, and hope, and watch as Apple goes through 2 major OS releases, Palm and Google create whole new platforms from scratch, and even the blackberry platform is dragged into the 21st century.
Meanwhile, Microsoft does... honeycombs. Wooo. See, it's not a grid of icons... its a
HONEYCOMB
Meh. Update the core already. Oh, yeah, that will be out in 2010. About 2 more major revs of iPhone, Palm, and Android should have happened by then.