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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: LukeHashJ on 9 December 2002, 06:30

Title: Longhorn
Post by: LukeHashJ on 9 December 2002, 06:30: Uhoh (http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/97709_longhorn29.shtml)

"The most different since windows XP"

Xp is just 98 on Fisher-Price crack.
Title: Longhorn
Post by: choasforages on 9 December 2002, 07:30: linux + rieser 4 + openoffice with rieser 4 plugin > longhorn

please dispute my math if you can ;)
Title: Longhorn
Post by: lazygamer on 9 December 2002, 07:31: quote:
The next version of the world's most popular desktop operating system, code-named "Longhorn," is due out in test form next year and in final form in 2004. It will have a new look and feel, very different from Windows XP's. Its guts will also be radically different from Windows XP's, because they're based on XML -- extensible markup language, the emerging lingua franca of the Internet. And it will be the first version that won't function fully without new hardware.

Someone care to explain this XML connection better? Oh and did they say it needs NEW hardware? Why yes, they did. :(

quote:
Include enhanced security. Longhorn will be the first operating system designed for use with PCI Express, the motherboard design that will succeed the PCI standard currently in force, Enderle said. In addition to providing a performance boost of up to eight times current speeds, the new design is required to harness the increased security features of Longhorn, which Enderle said are embodied in Microsoft's "Palladium"-branded trustworthy-computing initiative.

"Neither Linux nor Unix ties the operating system to hardware," he said.

"This could bring a higher level of security than anything we've ever seen. It will almost completely prevent the platform from being compromised."

To those "facts" about Longhorn, add the hopes of other analysts. Ideally, Longhorn will "fundamentally integrate" audio, video and images in a "visually stunning" manner, much like the Mac's OS X, said Tim Bajarin, president of the Campbell, Calif., research firm Creative Strategies Inc.

It should also be able to synchronize the multiple PCs, personal digital assistants and computer-equipped cell phones -- Microsoft calls them SmartPhones -- many people will own, Bajarin said.

Hmmm more dumb stuff.
Title: Longhorn
Post by: choasforages on 9 December 2002, 07:40: smartphones?
where is the obligatory refalm picture of the .net phone?
Title: Longhorn
Post by: cloudstrife on 9 December 2002, 07:54: "Neither Linux nor Unix ties the operating system to hardware"

1) Umm last time i checke, this was a good thing... if the OS is tied the hardware, the only ppl that benefit are the ppl that make the sotware and hardware - cuz each time you upgrade, you must get all new hardware AND software.

2) Define Unix you dipshit, it is no longer a single OS but a breed of OSes... including Linux. fucking idiot. Thats like saying "both windows 98 and windows 9x run this new software!"

[ December 08, 2002: Message edited by: cloudstrife ]
Title: Longhorn
Post by: choasforages on 9 December 2002, 08:12: hehe, last time i checked, i thought linux was unix, but they just can't say it like that?
Title: Longhorn
Post by: LukeHashJ on 9 December 2002, 08:16: Absolutely not.

They must be ignorant, it's in their blood.

The last thing I want is Windows tied to my hardware.
Title: Longhorn
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 9 December 2002, 08:25: quote:
Originally posted by choasforages:
smartphones?
where is the obligatory refalm picture of the .net phone?

Right here:

(http://www.akgames.net:8000/Downloads/Files/Personal/net_mobile.jpg)
Title: Longhorn
Post by: dot.this on 9 December 2002, 20:52: It's hard to read the alert box on that phone.

General Protection Fault? Probably. I like the ctrl-alt-delete buttons.
Title: Longhorn
Post by: KernelPanic on 9 December 2002, 20:56: I like this:

linke image (http://www.slothmud.org/~hayward/mic_humor/ctrlaltdel.jpg)

[ December 09, 2002: Message edited by: Tux ]
Title: Longhorn
Post by: Fett101 on 9 December 2002, 20:56: quote:
Originally posted by LukeHashJ:

Xp is just 98 on Fisher-Price crack.

XP:No DOS. NTFS. NT kernel. Fisher Price theme. And that damned annoying MSN messenger.
Title: Longhorn
Post by: KernelPanic on 9 December 2002, 20:57: I like this:

Linkt to Image (http://www.slothmud.org/~hayward/mic_humor/ctrlaltdel.jpg)

[ December 09, 2002: Message edited by: Tux ]
Title: Longhorn
Post by: Fett101 on 9 December 2002, 20:58: quote:
Originally posted by Tux:
I like this:

(http://www.slothmud.org/~hayward/mic_humor/ctrlaltdel.jpg)

I remember on some mod site, some guy ripped off his alt-ctrl-del buttons and glued them on his PC over his reset button. Tee hee.
Title: Longhorn
Post by: Calum on 9 December 2002, 22:15: that was indeed the fantastic http://afrotechmods.com (http://afrotechmods.com) site!
Title: Longhorn
Post by: Fett101 on 9 December 2002, 22:33: I thought so, but didn't feel like searching for the article. But, Here it is. (http://afrotechmods.com/reset.htm)
Title: Longhorn
Post by: mobrien_12 on 9 December 2002, 23:29: "Neither Linux nor Unix ties the operating system to hardware," he said.

"This could bring a higher level of security than anything we've ever seen. It will almost completely prevent the platform from being compromised."

And again they fail to say who they are trying to keep from compromising the platform. It's the actual USERS who they don't want compromising the DRM of the platform. MS version of "security"
(http://tongue.gif)
Title: Longhorn
Post by: rtgwbmsr on 10 December 2002, 07:29: quote:
Yay! Now linux/win2k users don
Title: Longhorn
Post by: DC on 11 December 2002, 01:18: quote:

Neither Linux nor Unix ties the operating system to hardware

Well duh. The idea of an operating system is tying the programs to the hardware. The OS *are* the 'ropes' in that analog.
An OS tied to the hardware is... well... stupid. That was the problem of Linux, it was tied too hard to x86 (yes, that has been solved). Why don't people learn?