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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: sime on 22 April 2005, 09:10

Title: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
Post by: sime on 22 April 2005, 09:10

Of course it is, it's Windows...

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

Later

Sime

Title: Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
Post by: Calum 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...

Title: Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
Post by: Orethrius 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

Title: Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
Post by: cahult on 23 April 2005, 19:17

Why not call this "upgrade" Dolly because it is practically cloned from every other OS and everybody who

Title: Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
Post by: Aloone_Jonez 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.

Title: Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
Post by: Jenda on 23 April 2005, 19:47

And it's our job to fight against that. I just tried out Ubuntu. Love it.

Title: Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
Post by: themacuser 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.

Title: Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
Post by: bobalot 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

Title: Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
Post by: Jenda on 29 April 2005, 01:19

SP2 is freely distributed?

Title: Re: Longhorn is big - no, this time we mean it
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 29 April 2005, 01:42

Quote from: Orethrius

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