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A Quick Peek at Longhorn
Kaypro writes: "The Register
has an interesting article with some minor details regarding Microsoft's next OS.
P2P, filesystem plugins and some thoughts from Hans Reiser, of ReiserFS fame
make for an interesting read."
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A database core...
This means they are going to start bundling Access, doesn't it?
Oh wait, I read that wrong... It's a relational database core... That excludes Access.
I like you, Stuart. You're not like everyone else, here, at Slashdot.
Microsoft is just up to the same old tricks. By tightly coupling their enterprise server apps to their client apps via poorly documented, proprietary interfaces, they hope to stomp competitors out of existence. They want people to rely on these proprietary features so that IS departments are forced to deploy and maintain Microsoft-only networks.
Without government intervention, it will only get worse. The average computer user does not understand issues of inter-operability, conformance with open standards, or the dangers in adopting Microsoft proprietary formats and protocols.
Reliability? Pshaw.. who needs the Reality of Reliability when you can make the drooling masses *think* your product is reliable.
Microsoft today announced a security patch for Longhorn, to counteract the 'Sharp Cheddar' trojan horse, which shreds hard drives.
I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhauser gate.
Hey, bright boy... has Red Hat been convicted in a court of law for being an illegal monopolist? Does Red Hat even have a legal monopoly of any kind?
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
Who the hell is holding a gun to your head forcing you to upgrade? I've got a 95 laptop a 98 computer and two XP computers and they all get along just fine. Is there something wrong with being able to have the latest and greatest when I buy a new machine? Why would I want to by a computer in 2000 and have Windows 95 installed on it becuase the government at slashdot's insistance says that they can only rev the OS once every 5 years?
I'd hate to be a poor beleagured Linux user that has to upgrade his kernel every two weeks because of yet another catastrophic kernel bug. I guess it heeps the Red hat paid tech support people employed! There, how do you like the hyperbole?
Contrary to popular belief, coding is not all free blow-jobs and beer. Those things cost MONEY!