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Microsoft considering update dubbed 'XP Reloaded'

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Microsoft is considering updating Windows XP before it releases Longhorn, a major overhaul of the industry's dominant operating system that is not expected for about two years.
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http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5165966.html?tag=nefd_lede
saw it on /.; they can't be serious, can they? Reloaded?!?!?

edit: /.'ers are having a hayday with this. I haven't seen this many (Score:5 Funny) comments in a story for a while!
http://slashdot.org/articles/04/02/26/2156254.shtml
here are some good ones:
You are correct. The actual planned product name is "XP: Return of the King"

...the bomb. No, I mean: ...for jokes galore. Consider:

"Like the original, except everyone's disappointed with it."

"Reloaded? More like reBOOTed! BURN!"

"Here comes Desktop Agent Clippy Smith! 'It looks like you're trying to type a letter, Mister Anderson...'"

"XP has you!"

...followed in 2006 by Longhorn, aka "Microsoft XP Revolutions"

This reminds me of a phrase posted here on slashdot about the movie " How about I give you the finger and you give me my 10 dollars back!"

Got it already, I already reload it twice a day!

Gives new meaning to "a glitch in the matrix", doesn't it?

Does this mean it will have lots of pretty graphics and effects with little actually substance and meaning behind it? Like other things titled "Reloaded"?

It WILL boot up, but the boot-up sequence will be 150 copies of Clippy fighting the Windows logo.
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shoudl be revolutions so there theme song can be the one revolutions song from the beatles.
 
So will it hit me over the head with not so subtle references to the Cult of Bill Gates and provide me with some of the most poorly worded dialog boxes ever?
 
Originally posted by: Viper GTS
Originally posted by: Gibson486
It's what they call it in the office, not what it will be called on the shelf.
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No kidding people, this is a CODENAME.

Viper GTS
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I swear one day they are going to run out of codenames.

Before we know it the 'new os' will be called 'Operating System 290'
 
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
Originally posted by: TommyVercetti
Slashdot humor is HARDLY ever funny.
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LOOLOLOL I SAID "fsck" ... AHHA IT'S A LINUX COMMAND AND SOUnDS DIRTY LOLLLOPLOLOLLOloLOlOlolOLoLOlOl

(I concur.)

- M4H
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Haha! Imagine a beowulf of that you insensitive CLOD!

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I don't know what's wrong with some people. I've been using Windows since 95 OSR2 and I can tell that XP is the best Windows ever. It does have a few shortcomings and bugs, but they aren't annoying. I had to be very careful with 95, 98 and ME so that it would work but XP is just a paragon in my book. So if it's called Revolutions or some other crappy name I couldn't care less, to be honest.
 
Originally posted by: Booster
I don't know what's wrong with some people. I've been using Windows since 95 OSR2 and I can tell that XP is the best Windows ever. It does have a few shortcomings and bugs, but they aren't annoying. I had to be very careful with 95, 98 and ME so that it would work but XP is just a paragon in my book. So if it's called Revolutions or some other crappy name I couldn't care less, to be honest.
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No DUDE, Linux is better. Linux has always been better.

(+5 Interesting)
 
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