More on Longhorn

An anonymous reader writes "Everything I have read concering MS's future plans: Palladium, Client/Server tie in, Office 11 breaking backward compatability, 3 year licensing plans, product activation - all leave me with a foreboding sense of the potential synergy for furthering Microsoft's goals of complete domination. Now this article tells about Longhorn's new filesystem being based on the the future Yukon server. And surprise it will only work with new hardware, which they want to be Palladium enabled. And all pitched to you under the rubric of Security & Efficency. For years MS has been accused of only wanting people to run MS Software. Now according to the article, 'Microsoft doesn't think computer users should have to use one program to read and write a word-processing file, another to use a spreadsheet, and a third to correspond via e-mail. Rather, the company thinks, a single program should handle it all.' One program to rule them all, one program to bind them, indeed."

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All anti-MS, all the time

[NineNine]

I'm thinking... maybe Slashdot should get another URL, maybe, http://www.iamreallyboredandIhavenothingbettertodo thantocriticizeMSevery5minutes.com

This hourly "M$ sucks because..." is getting very, very old and very childish.

MS Sucks

[NSupremo]

Why does anyone have any faith in this company?

Why do ignorant people keep funnelling money to a waste of time like MS?

You people complain enough about it so why don't you do something about it?

Re:Bleaaargh

[Anarchofascist]

"MS does something. Slashdot reacts with extreme criticism..."

..Microsoftie posts kneejerk reaction...

"...Repeat next day."

So, it may be true. Waste makes .... waste.

[twitter]

What makes you think they won't want to Borg everything into the kernel? With the current level of modularity an average M$ install only takes up 2 to 10 GB of disk space. If everything had to be part of the new kernel.32, but you could only access it by paying your M$ tax, Longhorn could "creativly waste" even a 1,000 GB hard disk. Just read the article:

Enderle said the new file system will also function efficiently with hard drives holding at least one terabyte of data. That's 1,000 gigabytes, or well over 1,000 compressed movies, or more than 700,000 novels the size of "War and Peace." Such drives are expected to hit the market by 2004.

See? You thought a 1GB M$IE footpring was bloat, ha ha ha. I'm sure that the extravagent waste will be very efficient.