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The Ideas Behind Longhorn
An anonymous reader writes: "Fortune magazine is carrying an interesting article on the new and improved Bill Gates, as well as some details on Longhorn: 'Because Gates' geeks are completely overhauling the operating system, they'll also have to redesign most of the company's other software products and services to take full advantage, including the MSN online service, its server applications, and especially Microsoft Office, the productivity suite that accounts for nearly a third of the company's sales and profits. If this enormous undertaking succeeds, it will make computers more personal than ever. Equipped with Longhorn, your PC will keep track of how you work, whom you talk to, what sites you look at, how you make documents and whom you share them with, which data on the network are yours--making all those things easier.'"
"Equipped with Longhorn, your PC will keep track of how you work, whom you talk to, what sites you look at, how you make documents and whom you share them with, which data on the network are yours-- making all those things easier.'"
yes, so microsoft can help themselves, other corps and the federal government keep track of what you have on your computer!
Slashdot Hypocrisy at work?
Isn't the reason that these things aren't easy now is BECAUSE most people are using Windows?
What he was trying to say, you ignorant troll, is that M$, while genuinely needing to fix their code, will certainly make efforts to stop linux compatability.
Its M$'s nature to force competing products out in anti-trust ways.
They've already been judged of that.
Linux compatability has ben worked on my thousands of people over the last handful of years, and M$ can swish it away by cahnging file formats, excecution processes, internal protocols, etc.
Does M$ need to change all those things to make a better OS? nope. They just need more secure code.
Why would they do it? To hurt the linuxers who speak out against M$.
Heh... Yeah because you wouldn't work. :)
Stick that in your | and smoke it.
Didn't ReplayTV keep track of what we watched to "make our lives easier"?
Now, it's being used to spy on us. "More personal information" is something that we should have to remember. Would you tell some random guy on the street your SSN, so he could keep track of it for you? I don't think so. Closed source software is much like some random guy on the street, you never can know what it's gonna do with the info you give it.
-twb
The name Longhorn is appropriate. Bill Gates is finally admitting that he sold his soul long ago, and Microsoft is in the service of Satan.
Sending all this to Microsoft, which will use it to blackmail everyone.