Microsoft Longhorn

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Well, I have my stuff organized, and that doesn't make it cluttered :wink:

[barok]

At one point in time i used windows blinds to give my computer a windows 3.1 look. Unfortunately, Using that program is quite resource intensive. Later on I went for an XP-like look, then just got rid of it.

[TheBigBasicQ]

Sweet, so who here thinks Mac will over-take Windows + Linux?

Never lest Apple starts releasing hardware specs and starts mass production of their RISC processors, mobos, basically entire Apple hardware

[oracle]

Longhorn will require a 3gHz processor, with 512MB ram for "minimum effectiveness".

It will also require - note, *require* - a 3D graphics card - else the system will not start.

It will also include a "watered down" version of Spotlight - the Mac Tiger desktop search engine. In fact, MS are saying "well, you can have desktop search now, but if you wait a year you can have MS desktop search instead, which will be better!".

Doesn't that sound like vapourware to you guys?

[barok]

Longhorn will require a 3gHz processor, with 512MB ram for "minimum effectiveness".

It will also require - note, *require* - a 3D graphics card - else the system will not start.

It will also include a "watered down" version of Spotlight - the Mac Tiger desktop search engine. In fact, MS are saying "well, you can have desktop search now, but if you wait a year you can have MS desktop search instead, which will be better!".

Doesn't that sound like vapourware to you guys?

Kinda reminds me of this article i read. It appears that most of M$ fears google... for one reason, Google's been spending over 2 billion in desktop search research, and google beat them to it by 2 months. That was a wakeup call for most of M$. Gates doesn't seem worried though... he says he's gonna treat them like all the other companies they pushed outta the market. But, kinda hard to push a company outta the market that gives away their products for free and gets all their money from advertising... I think Gates is a bit overconfident on this.

[TheBigBasicQ]

Oracle, those kinda systems wont be "affordable" even by 2006...

[Anonymous]

Longhorn will require a 3gHz processor, with 512MB ram for "minimum effectiveness".

It will also require - note, *require* - a 3D graphics card - else the system will not start.

one thing: anyone seen that simpson's episode where homer made the specs for a new car? Rofl

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

Look...

Enlighten me.

[anarky]

http://images.google.com.au/images?q=tbn...dore64.gif

These guys had it right.

Anyway...

If M$ push for 64-bit systems, where does that leave current 32-bit games we are making? Phased out as usual? Like 16-bit?

Who would use that useless bar on the side anyway? I would use it if has the capacity to do what I want it to do. Which by the way none have acheived this at all.

Anyway, what's so wrong with XP that there *needs* to be another Windows? Why not just take XP, rip it to bits and fix all the bugs from the baseline up? Oh wait - That's Longhorn...

Minus the stripping...

I'm going now.

>anarky

[aetherfox]

Blackbox owns. I've used it since v0.4. I stopped using it when 0.9 came out because it became bloatware...I hear the devs are trying to go back to pure minimalism again though.