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"Longhorn" Alpha Preview
An anonymous reader submitted an actual review of the leaked Longhorn Alpha. Finally someone has provided us with more than a few screenshots. Here's your chance to see what the future of the microsoft desktop is gonna look like!
Hey, baby, wanna check out my alpha copy Longhorn?
Shame I won't be able to get an AMD CPU to run it on though :(
So, (as I've said before) besides the systray, task bar buttons, icons on the desktop and the start menu we have *another* way to "quickly" get to applications and documents? Pretty soon we'll need a quick launch bar for the quick launch bars.
Well some of us like to run an OS that isn't pretending to be another OS.
.. more stuff I need to disable to stop my users from hurting themselves?
Hope not.
cause you read it on Slashdot.
Would anyone really be worse off if Microsoft took the "my" off of "My Computer", "My Documents", etc? I already *know* that they're mine! Do people really like their computers to talk down to them like that?
Visit the
It looks like a dreadful KDE theme.
Talk about being redundant...
I write in my journal
it doesn't matter what they add to the UI, I'm just going to make it look like windows 98 anyways.
Features of coming Microsoft OS:es:
.NET Passport.
// Must receive clearance to do this!
// Must check that the data doesn't infringe any copyrights!
// Must check that the data doesn't infringe any copyrights!
// Must check that the data doesn't infringe any copyrights!
// OK!!!
- We'll be required to log on to our computers through
- The whole UI will be based around MSN explorer.
- If we wish to write programs that'll run, we'll have to do something like:
.NET_PROGRAM
{
MS_PALLADIUM_REQUST_SESSION();
MY PRIVATE STRING STR1 = MS_PALLADIUM_AUTHENTICATE ("NEW STRING (\"Hello world\")");
MY PRIVATE FUNCTION MAIN = MS_PALLADIUM_AUTHENTICATE ("NEW FUNCTION ()");
MY MAIN = MS_PALLADIUM_AUTHENTICATE
(
"/* Logon to passport to send the message through MSN Messenger */
PASSPORT_LOGON_();
MSN_MESSENGER_PRINT(STR1);"
);
MS_PALLADIUM_END_SESSION();
}
- Exponential growth of area of objects such as "start menu", "option bar", etc.
- Every program, file and message will of course be required to have the prefix "My".
- Exponential growth of number of alternations to an obvious and given task, for example, there'll be 62 ways to create a shortcut to a web page, none of them intuitive.
- There'll be more curves and pastel colors. By Windows 2010, there'll be curves so complex that they have to be express in 11-dimensional morphed space! Windows will require 2048-bit color GFX hardware to operate.
- Meh...
...I can already see the bumpersticker: "Windows 2006 is Macintosh 2001."
(2006 may be a little ambitious; it's a guess.)
Granted, they are catching up, my compliments. But what happened to all that innovation they keep promising? Push the envelope Bill, and I don't mean profit margins.
thirty two millibits? I would have thought that every gfx card ever made could manage at least THAT.
If you meant 32 MB, however, you're an idiot - as even Quartz Extreme will run on 16MB and OSX 10.2 is quite happy to run with as little as FOUR MB.
That was classic intercourse!
"Only in their dreams can men truly be free 'twas always thus, and always thus will be."
--Tom Schulman
To quote from the .nfo:
:-)
Please note it is still in Alpha stage, so you may experience constant crashes.
So nothing's really changed from the past Windows versions then
-- Wibble
Last month, some of those builds leaked to the Internet, causing a stir in the Windows enthusiast community.
There is a community of Windows enthusiasts? Who are these sick bastards??!! ;-)
Erm, Windows 2000 may not have a defrag.exe, but it sure as hell has a defrag utility in the management console. Of course, the first I'll do on a new setup is replace that one with a trusted one; the original defrag tool comes from a scientology-controlled firm.
4) Will it include Trojans and Backdoors?
No, unfortunately sendmail isn't available for Windows.
Sorry. I couldn't resist!
Slashdot, you've linked to the wrong review. Sorry to have to point it out, but if you look at the screenshots, you will see it's just Windows XP. And the title also says that it's ... oh.
== Jez ==
Do you miss Firefox? Try Pale Moon.
I don't know why... but i hate seeing multiple desktops for windows... i've always prided that as a reason to convert.
oh well. time to look for something new.
What comes first, finding a teacher or becoming a student?
Most people tend to believe that computers and their associated bits are tools, not support structures for religions.
I'm guessing you have never used emacs or vi.
A clock?!? Wow!!!
mods metamodded as "Unfair"
OH NOES! I only have 16MB VRAM on my iBook. It's like Looney Toons... It just realized that it doesn't have 32MB and it crashed! Sorta like bugs bunny walking off a cliff and floating until he looks down.
Perhaps you should read up on stuff before you say it in public
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