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Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
« on: 22 April 2005, 09:10 »
Of course it is, it's Windows...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/22/ballmer_new_longhorn/

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Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
« Reply #1 on: 22 April 2005, 18:18 »
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Chief executive Steve Ballmer was on the Longhorn stump this week calling the repeatedly delayed operating system a platform for the next 10 years.

by the time it's released, it'll only be an operating system for 3 or 4 years, just like all their other ones in fact...
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Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
« Reply #2 on: 23 April 2005, 11:17 »
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Chief executive Steve Ballmer was on the Longhorn stump this week calling the repeatedly delayed operating system a platform for the next 10 years.

Actually, Calum, Steve is right.  Longhorn will be a platform for the next 10 years.  Then a major upgrade to existing technology for the next 10 years.  Then a service pack and some security fixes to XP SP2 for the next 10 years.  Then a can of Ortho Weed-B-Gone and some moldy cheese for the next 10 years.  Get where I'm going with this?  :D

Also, Sime, Longhorn may be big - but then, size isn't everything. :D
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Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
« Reply #3 on: 23 April 2005, 19:17 »
Why not call this "upgrade" Dolly because it is practically cloned from every other OS and everybody who
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Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
« Reply #4 on: 23 April 2005, 19:23 »
MS relys heavily on sheep, the rely on the fact that everyone will now follow everyone else and use Windows thats how they keep their monopolt position.
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Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
« Reply #5 on: 23 April 2005, 19:47 »
And it's our job to fight against that. I just tried out Ubuntu. Love it.
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Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
« Reply #6 on: 28 April 2005, 05:38 »
Crank up that burner and start mass-producing Ubuntu live CDs and Knoppix CDs. Refer people to here: http://shipit.ubuntulinux.org/ and tell everyone to annoy Microsoft by ordering heaps of SP2 CDs to random addresses to waste their money.
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Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
« Reply #7 on: 28 April 2005, 23:08 »
Windows 95 was big, then 3 years later out came 98, with bug fixes which should have been in 95
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Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
« Reply #8 on: 29 April 2005, 01:19 »
SP2 is freely distributed?
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Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
« Reply #9 on: 29 April 2005, 01:42 »
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Actually, Calum, Steve is right.  Longhorn will be a platform for the next 10 years.  Then a major upgrade to existing technology for the next 10 years.  Then a service pack and some security fixes to XP SP2 for the next 10 years.  Then a can of Ortho Weed-B-Gone and some moldy cheese for the next 10 years.  Get where I'm going with this?  :D

Also, Sime, Longhorn may be big - but then, size isn't everything. :D


No apparently it's what it does that counts.

It's not the size of the ship in the sea, it's the motion of the boat in the ocean that counts. :D
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