[David M]

What would make most sense for the public is for Microsoft to go back to refining XP. From a profit motive, it makes perfect sense for Microsoft to come out with a new OS about every three to five years....even if there are only minor differences between them. It reminds me of when Detroit used to have a new model car every single year.

Its obvious what Microsoft is doing and I think the public has become aware of it and has decided they are not going to play the "new and improved" game any longer. Because although it may have a new label on the box, its clearly not all that improved, if at all.

Will System 7 be better than XP?...not significantly. People already know this and are not going to play Microsoft's game when they do release release System 7.

Its the classic case of The Boy Who Cried Wolf. "Look how great our new OS is!" ...its not great at all. Its your rehashed old system plus new bugs and incompatibilities...that's all. ..and its going to take two service packs to make it almost as good as your last OS was after two service packs.

My prediction is that this time around, people are once again not going to be standing outside the doors of Best Buy at midnight. People WILL be waiting until XP no longer runs the software that then need to run on their computers, and then they will hesitantly buy System 7 out of necessity.