Microsoft to lift lid on Longhorn OS

[0roo0roo]

want that mac zooming screensaver and cycling wallpaper dealy🙂

 

[Electrode]

Nothing MS can produce will ever make me give up Linux.

 

[Turkish]

Originally posted by: Electrode
Nothing MS can produce will ever make me give up Linux.

never use big words my friend...

 

[Chaotic42]

Meh. I won't upgrade until I have to. That'll be what, like 2008? Whenever XP is no longer supported.

 

[Chaotic42]

Meh. I won't upgrade until I have to. That'll be what, like 2008? Whenever XP is no longer supported.

 

[whaleskinrug]

when is MS Bob II coming out?

 

[Confused]

Originally posted by: ElFenix
registration was really annoying the day i had to install windows xp twice.

Easy.

Never register, but only activate when you've got it all up and running. You've got 14/30 days to Activate it, so you have that long to solve any problems.


Confused

 

[whaleskinrug]

Originally posted by: Confused

Originally posted by: ElFenix
registration was really annoying the day i had to install windows xp twice.

Easy.

Never register, but only activate when you've got it all up and running. You've got 14/30 days to Activate it, so you have that long to solve any problems.


Confused

they used to let you install on one desktop and one laptop -- but apparently that changed :|

 

[LAUST]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: LAUST
How is registration gonna work with this one?

It's funny how everyone was so pissed about the XP registration when it first came out, refusing to upgrade, etc. Now everyone uses it.

I use 2K, have a free OEM copy.. paying for an OS is fine, but nothing over $100 for a slight upgrade.. we have 2K = NT 5.0 XP = 5.1 and Server 2003 = NT 5.2... I will not pay that kind of money for a .X give me NT 6 and I'll think about it

 

[kozman31]

Doesn't Longhorn have all that anti-piracy stuff built into it? Or is that something else?

 

[dpm]

Originally posted by: Ameesh
if the devs come up with what the marketing and pm folks have dreamed up all you guys are gonna sh!t your pants, especially binbongwoofygoofy

If that ever happens on any project I'll sh!t my pants 😉

 

[EyeMWing]

I will not be transitioning to Longhorn, no matter how many features are added. It incorporates too much 'DRM' (I'll manage my own rights, thank you) and is looking to be excessively insecure (WinFS, Longhorn's NTFS replacement, is a combination of NTFS and an MS-SQL server - one of Microsoft's most insecure products on top of what is supposed to keep my data safe? NO!!!!)

Microsoft also has me extremely pissed over the delay of Service pack 2 for WinXP - there's NO fvcking reason that I should have to download half a gig of updates for every new machine when they could just be mature and release the damn package instead of releasing it a year late just so they can have more 'feature enhancements' in it. Service packs are supposed to fix bugs - not add features. That's just an added bonus, that, quite frankly, I don't care about.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: EyeMWing
- there's NO fvcking reason that I should have to download half a gig of updates for every new machine

If you go to the corporate site they have downloadable updates for admins. Download once and deploy.

How many machines we talking, how much time wasted? Perhaps your employer should get a better qualified worker, feel free to give him my number. 😉