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All Things Microsoft => Microsoft as a Company => Topic started by: sime on 27 April 2005, 15:20

Title: Longhorn: A Long Road to Nowhere?
Post by: sime on 27 April 2005, 15:20: And a bloody Longwait and all...

"Maybe we hyped it up a little bit too much," Microsoft group product manager Greg Sullivan told Information Week in an interview before the WinHEC conference being held this week.

Don't you always, just as you always slag off your previous OS prior to the release of a new one to increase sales... perhaps this time the consumer has woken up to your FUD tactics MS.

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/6936

Later

Sime
Title: Re: Longhorn: A Long Road to Nowhere?
Post by: themacuser on 28 April 2005, 05:58: :P

Almost too funny...
Title: Re: Longhorn: A Long Road to Nowhere?
Post by: jtpenrod on 30 April 2005, 09:09: Doesn't surprise me in the least. On another forum, one of the MS acolytes was claiming that longhorn would be the death of Linux. I disagreed, predicting this very thing: Longhorn would not live up to the hype. Same old story: Win 95, Win 98, Win98SE, etc. -- none of these ever lived up to the hype. :p

Fool me once...
Title: Re: Longhorn: A Long Road to Nowhere?
Post by: Orethrius on 1 May 2005, 02:59: Quote from: George W. Bush
[/size]Fool me once, shame on
Title: Re: Longhorn: A Long Road to Nowhere?
Post by: Simon on 1 May 2005, 03:03: That's an old saying in Texas'.., I know it's in Tenesee, probably in Texas...

Mah president didn't lie, the truth just changed.
Title: Re: Longhorn: A Long Road to Nowhere?
Post by: ShawnD1 on 1 May 2005, 13:37: Quote from: sime
Don't you always, just as you always slag off your previous OS prior to the release of a new one to increase sales

When have they ever done that? All versions of DOS were the same, so that's not it. Windows was based on DOS, so that wasn't it. Windows 95 was still getting patches for things such as sockets at late as 2003. The latest Windows 98 patch I can find was from 7/8/2003 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=71EC81DD-9E86-4956-94F5-B6E020348569&displaylang=en). Windows 2000 is still supported.

When has MS ever abandoned the previous version?
Title: Re: Longhorn: A Long Road to Nowhere?
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 1 May 2005, 13:54: Well you obviously haven't read this thread (http://www.microsuck.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9107) yet.
Title: Re: Longhorn: A Long Road to Nowhere?
Post by: ShawnD1 on 1 May 2005, 14:30: The article mentioned doesn't speak of bashing XP. Maybe I'm alone here, but I tend to think there is a difference between "our new product is better" and "our old product sucks balls".
Title: Re: Longhorn: A Long Road to Nowhere?
Post by: Simon on 1 May 2005, 15:52: Quote from: ShawnD1
When have they ever done that? All versions of DOS were the same, so that's not it. Windows was based on DOS, so that wasn't it. Windows 95 was still getting patches for things such as sockets at late as 2003. The latest Windows 98 patch I can find was from 7/8/2003 (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=71EC81DD-9E86-4956-94F5-B6E020348569&displaylang=en). Windows 2000 is still supported.

When has MS ever abandoned the previous version?

Windows is more than Based off DOS, for a long time, Windows was just a GUI for DOS. I think that it's standalone OS now, but I might be wrong.
Title: Re: Longhorn: A Long Road to Nowhere?
Post by: Aloone_Jonez on 1 May 2005, 16:12: It's Windows NT not, Windows 2000 was NT5.0 and XP is NT5.1, all that fucking money for just a minor upgrade.