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Message: <blockquote data-quote="amerigoV" data-source="post: 5835784">Windows announced its public test of Windows 8 as can be seen in the linked article. It one could just as easily pull out Windows and Microsoft and replace it with D&D and Wizards in concept. Both are fighting to make the underlying system relevant.<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/02/29/us-microsoft-windows8-preview-idUSTRE81S0CD20120229" target="_blank">Microsoft unveils Windows 8 for public test | Reuters</a>That does get to key item for me. I just expect the system to work and do what I want - be it a gaming system or an operating system on a computer. I do not buy either for the guts, just what they can facilitate.  On the electronic side, I find that I am drifting over to being an Apple snob just because they offer really ingenious items (I love my iPad2, and when my laptop dies at home I might look at a Mac for the first time, and I might consider a iphone over a droid in the near future as well). I am doing the same thing in gaming - I buy Savage Worlds stuff since its all new ideas and settings and have left D&D behind since it tends to be system driven (vs. idea driven).I hope that the new edition is not just new crunch. I want some fresh ideas that I can pull into my game, some "new classic" adventures and maybe even an innovative setting or two that are not just Greyhawk/FR kitchen sink rehashes (I enjoy GR/FR, but I already got them). The operating system just needs to work and not fight me - its not the reason I am buying the device.</blockquote>

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