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In article <i0ier3$j2s$1@news.eternal-september.org>, Andrew
<yogig.nospam@hotmail.no.spam.m.com> wrote:

> I've been working at MS and for MS and it's partners since 1998, and I can
> tell you we don't get anything done in a few months.

it took less than two months to cancel the kin phones.

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"Andrew" <yogig.nospam@hotmail.no.spam.m.com> wrote in message
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> "Your Name" <your.name@isp.com> wrote in message
> news:i0gbuu$k37$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
> > "Jason S" <jasonsavlov@me.com> wrote in message
> > news:2010063010251981990-jasonsavlov@mecom...
> >> On 2010-06-30 03:05:40 -0400, Rocky said:
> >>
> >> > Now that you're getting comfortable with Windows 7, it's time to
start
> >> > thinking about the future. Windows 8 (or whatever it may be called)
is
> >> > well under way by now (it takes years for Microsoft to develop an
> >> > operating system), so it was only a matter of time before the first
> >> > real details would find their way out of Redmond.
> >> >
> >> > Read more : http://www.onechap.com/news/windows8.html
> >>
> >> And hopefully Mac OS X 10.7 is in the works as well.
> >
> > In many ways it was already under development before 10.6.
> >
> >
> >> > it takes years for Microsoft to develop an operating system
> >
> > I think you meant: It takes years for Apple to develop an operating
> > system,
> > but only months for Microsoft to steal the ideas and badly create a
clone.
> > (Just like all the Asian iPhone clones really.)
> >
> I've been working at MS and for MS and it's partners since 1998, and I can
> tell you we don't get anything done in a few months.

Of course you do - the "quality" shows most of it is done in a hurry to
catch up to someone else. Then again, doing anything on a Windows machine
does indeed take much longer than expected and longer than it should.