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Never - I'll let them suffer the slings and arrows of a rush to market. That's assuming I'm even interested in it to begin with.
Initially, they all are assumed to have the fine care and workmanship that was put into Windows Vista.
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You can be interested without being an early adopter though.
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Certainly possible - but like "The Boy Who Cried Wolf" saga, I've just stopped listening, or more accurately, I purge my mental cache. Why track ephemera? There are hoards of "me me me" fools standing in lines for days to buy little more than a model number or 'savvy developers' downloading the language-of-the-week. Those that survive a year or two might be worth a thought. The rest? Ephemera. I'd rather play Dungeon Crawl.
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Yes, most new ideas will bite the dust. I'm not interested in everything that pops up but I am interested in some - especially if it's not too far from what I'm already using commercially. But as to how far I go with it - the constraint is whether it looks like there's a chance I might get to use it commercially. That can be difficult to judge.
A lot of the time, though, I file stuff mentally and wait a year or so to see whether it's a thing. 
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I wonder who voted for Excited.. hahaha
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People who either never hear about the newest tech announcements or who are always excited.
I'm not sure which of those I'd prefer
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I almost did but then realised that's not always the case. I'm excited sometimes. So I voted Interested instead.
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Haha I so agree with you Kev!
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When I was a student, I probably would have.
I remember my excitedness over some of the books published then, about brand new machine architectures that ended up as megaflops (432, anyone?), or language developments (Concurrent Pascal, with all the truly high level synchronization mechanisms designed into the language), or really well designed communication protocols (I still don't understand why ATM failed, and DQDB had some really attractive features).
And so on. All of those surely did make me excited, way back in those days when I still had enough energy to be excited at all. Now I just have the energy to be frustrated... (and possibly nostalgic).
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