In a surprise move, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates announced yesterday that he has purchased the entire calendar year of 1998. 1998 will be replaced instead by “Year-M” to be followed by actual 1998.
“Windows 98 was not going to ship on schedule,” Gates said. “But we couldn’t change the name again… people were starting to get confused. So instead of spending a lot of time and money on a new marketing campaign we decided just to buy 1998. That way we get an extra year to debug Windows and get it shipped for what will be the new 1998.”
According to the Google’s official Mobile blog this new version will improve the overall performance including but not meant to speed improvement, smoother scrolling, and no freezing.
The HTC G1 lauched by HTC & T-Mobile or commonly known as First Google Android Phone which is yet to come out in general public has already sold (pre-order) approximately 1.5 million sets might be coming to India as well.T-Mobile is giving G1 for $179 + 2 year contract.
According to some confidential sources or can also be rumors as off now but the news is that HTC & some leading Indian Telecom Service Providers are in talks to launch The Android Phone in India.
So People who were disappointed with iPhone’s prices it can be a great news for you guys. I’ve also heard that Airtel would be the provider who would get the phone first considering that fact that HTC & Airtel have quiet good relationship & understanding. So it can be our very own Airtel to come out with HTC G1.
Price of this phone is said to be ranging from 8,000-10,000 INR though i am not at sure about this as some sources also said it might start with INR 20,000 which can be said as a good deal since iPhone is priced INR 30,000 in India so it would be lot cheaper and since Android is Open Source we can expect developments at a higher pace then Apple’s iPhone.
According to the latest announcement by Microsoft, the latest version of Windows will be called as Windows 7 which would be coming out in couple of years. So now finally Microsoft is adopting a naming system for Windows that might actually make some sense to users, but some users might also feel that where & when did they miss the earlier 1 to 6 versions of Windows.
Windows actually had one of the most irrelevant naming systems, which started with Windows 3.1 which was somewhat logical but stupid naming system too. Then company adopted a mechanism to name its OS by the year which continued from Windows 95 to Windows 98.
Then came 1 of the worst versions of Windows which we’ve ever used Windows ME (Millennium Edition). Next up we hit Windows XP, which has served most of us reasonably well since 2001. It sounds sort of cool, it’s catchy, and we have no idea what it means.
Finally we had Windows Vista (earlier named Longhorn as it was declared) which seemed to stick with the naming convention of “something that sounds sort of cool but didn’t really mean anything”.
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