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Skriven 2005-04-29 17:39:00 av CHARLES ANGELICH (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av CHARLES SCAGLIONE
Ärende: Longhorn
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Hello Charles - 

CA>> Longhorn, from what I'm reading/seeing in screenshots, is
CA>> a non-event in my life. I can't imagine what Microsoft has
CA>> been paying their programmers to do but it seems they
CA>> weren't working on Longhorn? Even the quotes from Gates
CA>> and Ballmer attempting to sell Longhorn seem pathetically
CA>> uninteresting (to me). 

CS> I'm not very interested either. One of Microsoft's techs
CS> that posts to the XP General newsgroup insists that
CS> Longhorn will be delivered to the public (gold edition) in
CS> 2006. Even after the negative comments he received with
CS> regard to his prognostication, he says it's a "go" for
CS> 2006. I wonder what brand of Pot he's been smoking? <g> 

When reading about Longhorn it is necessary to read very
carefully not only what _is_ said but what is _not_ said. There
_will_ be a release but it won't be all that was promised some
years ago? Palladium won't be a part of this release. I am told
Palladium refers to the improved security features. I have read
that the new journaling file system will not be finished for
that release and that improvements/updates to IEx are being
rushed to completion as well. 

In short it will be an XP Media Center update with altered
graphics/GUI, a hacked IEx, and (my guess) another WMMP format
incompatible with older versions of WMMP. Another embarrassment
for those users determined to use Windows OS on their hardware.
:-( 

I'm seeing myself maintaining a working W2K or XP system that
_never_ connects to the internet _ever_ again while using
another system (probably Linux or BSD) to connect online to the
internet. I need some of the third-party software of Windows
that Linux does not have equivalents for in ease-of-use but I
do _not_ need to access the internet using Windows OS. 

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