"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!

Comments

Yawn

[VTg33k]

Am I the only one that still uses Windows 2000? It's clean, stable, and doesn't stick its head quite as far up my rear end as XP does...

Re:Yawn

[monadicIO]

Am I the only one that still uses Windows 2000?

Yes. Sometime earlier, the rest of us moved on to Linux.

Re:Yawn

[IIRCAFAIKIANAL]

No, basically you refuted his opinion with "facts" which you failed to back up as well. Essentially making yourself an ignoramus/liar as well.

Instead of trolling me, why don't you say why my fact is wrong? Others have indicated that the original poster may have meant the EULA, not a "feature" of the operating system, which would indeed mean that I was wrong (in that I confused the issue).

BTW, how should I back up my fact? A dissertation to prove that you can turn off auto-updating in windows? Should I provide photographs and an affidavit from the original Microsoft engineer that implemented the feature? It's a fucking checkbox and an option group in windows xp, not a statement based on an epidemiological study. It's like asking me to back up a statement like "the sun rises every day."

If someone publicly holds an opinion and it is (partially) based on ignorance, then others can and should step in to correct it. The poster did not say "in my opinion, windows sucks because they put the shutdown option in the start menu and I would rather have a dock than a taskbar" - the poster said that windows sucks because he/she had a set of unfavourable yet unique experiences and I merely pointed out that unique experiences are not good enough grounds to rate something. I was also speaking of comments like this in general, not simply trying to "refute" the original poster.

Bah, why do I let myself get trolled like this?

Ok, I Switched

[zentec]

Looks like they shoved it through the AOL interface maker and called it "new".

Microsoft needs to realize that cosmetic changes to the OS are not a reason to upgrade. Although that won't stop them, through yet more forced upgrades and built-in obsolesence from pushing this on the computer world.

I use Mac OSX at work, and occasionally SuSE 8.1 at home. If Microsoft depricates my Windows2000, I'll just move to OSX or SuSE.

Still not on par with Mac OSX

[stewart.hector]

Well, still looks like OSX is the best OS out there, including this new microsoft bloatware.

And very much insecure...

I suppose that you'll still be root in Windows when your an admin - like every body is. Again, unlike OSX, if you are an admin - you are a normal user until OSX sudo's you.

No doubt also, with this pile of MS shite, you'll need twice the power processor and 100 gigs of hard disc to install it on. AND then still be user hostile because the GUI is so unfriendly.

MS should really learn how to make GUIs. I've always, *always* found MS GUIs get int the way of what I really want to do. Unlike KDE and OSX.

Can't beat these two OS. MS never will.

Leaked review

[anarchima]

Oooh a leaked review! My my, and it's only from November 13th...Yes, hot stuff there Slashdot...

Microsoft Aqua, you mean?

[192939495969798999]

So Microsoft has a new look! lemme go see! ... time passes and-
YEP! looks just like the old macintosh "new look". What a freakin surprise... WINDOWS OS X... IF ONLY they could copy the stability too!

sir_haxalot

Re:Not that new...

[obdulio]

4) Will it include Trojans and Backdoors?

Re:Um, how?

[jez9999]

Ahahahahahaha. I'm seeing the problem. You thought you could do it from the command line. What's more, you thought you could do it using the exact same syntax as you used in *nix! Hahaha.