Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Longhorn M4 Build Review

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the future-of-windows dept.

Gsurface writes "I finally got my hands on the new Longhorn build, 4008, that was announced two days ago. After installing it and looking around through it, I decided to write a review expressing some thoughts on the new build. This new longhorn build, upon the prompt to "press any key to boot from cd..." jumps directly into a GUI that is unique. This build Microsoft decides to abandon the setup interface of XP and dress Longhorn on its own. "

2 of 352 comments (clear)

  1. Why? by forkb0y · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    While I recognise that slashdot is a community that covers users from the whole of the OS spectrum, is it really necessary to see thinly veiled advertisements for M$ products such as this? Don't you understand how happy it makes the beast to see his product chatted around on this site in particular? Don't you understand that in so doing, and by helping to expose and document the flaws in said product, you are doing their testing job for them (for free)? Couldn't you be doing the same thing for the open source community instead?

    Just my opinion, not meant to be a troll.

  2. Note to Gsurface by Stonent1 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Why post a review of something on slashdot when your site can't handle it?