http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=58640I just had to laugh when i saw the excitment in "dotnetjunkies'" post.
Anyway... I always try to keep an open mind in OS development, and even with my distain for MS/Windows; Is Longhorn beta free for me to download/install?
Somewhere I've heard that it was a public beta, so I would assume it would be available to me if i wanted to install / test it.
I feel the need to justify myself on this site: I use linux because I test many different Operating Systems, and it the easiest/fastest/most stable operating system I have used, and one that remains both free and Free. I'm trying to compare all the new operating systmes (Novell Desktop Linux 10 when it is available, Fedora Core 3/4, Ubuntu 5.04, Solaris 10, OpenSolaris when it comes out, FreeBSD 5.3 as soon as I get it installed, OSX 10.4 Tiger when i order by Pbook, and Win2k/WinXP. To this point, I hate all the windows releases, but I want to continue to have an 'open' mind. I feel pretty sure about myself that Longhorn will not be up-to-par.
With that in mind, I do not support software piracy and will only test Longhorn if it is free to me.