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Jaguar Reviewed

Posted by pudge on from the my-mac-only-has-16mb-ddr-anyway dept.

Anonymous Coward writes "A review with a lot of screenshots of the latest beta seed (6C37) has been posted. The latest advancements look pretty promising. I, like everyone else, am itching for a release." I don't know if it is more pretty, or more promising, but it does look cool. Dock improvements, iChat, search the disk from Finder windows, QuickTime 6, Digital Hub section of System Preferences, Firewall preferences, major Speech improvements ...

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  1. Longhorn, Whistler, and Blackcomb by cpeterso · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The next version of Windows is codenamed "Longhorn". It is a kind of cow.

    Longhorn is a bar at the Whistler ski resort north of Vancouver, BC (just a few hours drive from Microsoft's Redmond campus). The two mountains there are Whistler and Blackcomb. Whistler was the codename for Windows XP and Blackcomb is/was the codename for Windows .NET Server. See, it all makes sense..

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    cpeterso