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Story: Windows Longhorn: more details emerge
Posted by: Anonymous (Saturday 15 January 2005, 8:42 AM)
The "technology-driven" phrase tells one more thing: You will have to upgrade your PC to get all that nice stuff running. Surely, Longhorn will run on older machines, too. But I bet you don't get half of the revolutionary features at a useful speed - if at all.
Nice thing if you are a PC-vendor or CPU-maker, isn't it?
It would prove software technology leadership if MS could get at least 80% of the features work on current PC's.
Tell you what: I'm a Mac-User (big surprise, you'll say and stop reading). But I'm jusing OS 10.3 on a laptop with a 450MHz G3 Processor (roughly comparable with a PIII at 800), 320MB RAM, 6GB (yes, that's six Gig) HD and 8MB Videomemory. Even MS-Office 2004 runs on this in a usable speed. Since OS 10.0 with every update, the system became FASTER PLUS MORE features. (Number of bugs and glitches remained stable ;-) just a bit over zero.) No crashes in 4 years.
Do not bet too much on promises what MIGHT come years from now. Concentrate on what IS out there now, be it Windows, Linux, Mac or even Amiga and other less known OSes. They all could learn from each other.
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Story: Windows Longhorn: more details emerge
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First of all, Longhorn isn't going to include WinF... Bryan Kennedy -
It doesn't appear to be a copy of the OS X d... aphyr -
Still a copy of Mac OS and a poor one at that. Jus... Anonymous
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The "technology-driven" phrase tells one more thin... Anonymous -
Bill Gates does not have to wait for Longhorn to r... Kirk
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I love the fanboy treatment of Longhorn that this... Anonymous
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well i think microsoft is tying to make the w... Ngochi Rudolf
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I certainly think that seans comment is... Anonymous -
Seriously like Mac OS X; why wait a few years and... Anonymous
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The only reason Microsoft has so many customers is... Anonymous
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An extremely poor copy of Mac OS X and very late a... James van der Heide
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What can I say, Micro$oft still wants what Apple h... Anonymous
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why do microsoft allways make things that surpass... Sean Mountford
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not sure what the sad MS fanboy above is bang... Bmx Bandit
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In reguards to BMX's reply... who are you to... Sean Mountford
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OK PC Fanboy, tell me, if you've never u... Anonymous
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your being so horrible to Sean. STO... kat -
Ok I'm just gonna tell you why... Anonymous
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How can you know you'll prefer one thing... David Kelly
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You Mac-heads are pathetic Anonymous
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and you're not pathetic? You MS Drone Anonymous
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Hi my name is Nikos
First of all let me... Nikos
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Mac vs PC ??? //David vs Goliath??... anonymous
