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Longhorn 3718: Anti-iCandy and resource hogs

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Refalm:
Yes, I know people who installed it.

The whole GUI isn't logically build, and it's hard to get work done. It's also filled with useless junk which is only a resource hog (not talking about programs, about all the services you "need").

All Longhorn is, is a Windows XP skin with a .NET toolbar and a modded explorer.exe and crappy effects that are fun for a while, but which you want to disable anyway to get work done faster.

Saying that no one wants this crap would be wrong though. A lot of suckers are going to love this, not knowing that they ripped the GUI off Mac OS X (effects, design).

Xeen:

quote: All Longhorn is, is a Windows XP skin with a .NET toolbar and a modded explorer.exe and crappy effects that are fun for a while, but which you want to disable anyway to get work done faster.
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Don't forget more DRM

Laukev7:
I've installed Longhorn on my computer a year ago, it's the worst piece of bloated crap I've ever used, worse than even XP. Slow as hell, everything looks cramped on small monitors (by 'small' I mean 17 inches or less), full of useless 'features' like an analogue clock without numbers in addition to the one in the taskbar, huge, cluttered menus and panels, and it takes 1.8 fucking gigs on the harddrive. Worst of all, it's ugly as sin, so much that I actually got a headache after using it for one day.

Those screenshots look even worse than what I tested. Look at those huge ass pictures of people smiling like morons! They clutter the file manager, confuse the users and make everything look like a bloody advert! WHY???

[ April 29, 2004: Message edited by: Laukev7 ]

Xeen:

quote:WHY???
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Several reasons:

Microsoft's old target customer was this:


Today, Microsoft's target customer is this:

(and those in the first picture with the IQ of those in the second picture).

The main reason however is this:

Laukev7:
I like the way you put it, xeen.

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