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Microsoft Officially Shows Longhorn, WinFX
Theaetetus writes "Microsoft today unveiled its most detailed look yet at its new OS, Longhorn, due in 2006, during Bill Gates' keynote speech at the company's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. An article at Internet Week describes some of the goals: avoiding viruses, worms, and 'building apps that are as smart as Outlook.'" The company "also unveiled 'WinFX,' which it described as a new application programming model for Windows that is the evolution of its .NET programming framework."
"building apps that are as smart as Outlook."
I was hoping they'd shoot higher than that.
...will WinFX become known as "F**cks"?
Ok, so they've taken over the bottom of the screen with their explorer bar, now they're taking over the righthand side to show off stock reports? A few more years of this, there won't be any room left on the screen for apps.
Karma Whoring for Fun and Profit.
Mod Bill Gates up +1, ROTFLMAO!
"We need your feedback. We need your involvement to get this right."
Go open-source !!
Considering that longhorn won't be out until 2005^h6^h7, this sounds like a last-ditch attempt to stem the tide of small enterprise businesses which are rapidly switching to linux. Unless MS can show off some new functionality that can help the bottom line, their days are numbered.
Hey, that scum in your septic tank does a pretty important job... don't start comparing it to outlook to it, that's just mean....
1. avoid viruses
2. avoid worms
3. as smart as outlook.
Pick any two as long as you don't pick 3.
Every time my Outlook crashes, it just starts itself right back up again! It starts itself up several times each day! All by itself!!!
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Well my best guess would be that it would be F i X, as in you'll still be F i Xing this when we change the API again.
Happy Noodle Boy says "F###ing doughnut! Mock me? You fried cyclops!!"
Geforce FX, WinFX - this is starting to get about as in style as neglecting the leading E on words such as Xtreme and Xpress.
it's because many of the e's had to be prefixed to Commerce, Business, Solutions, et al in the late 90s...
i expect a shortage of i's to appear soon as well.
there's a finite number of vowels, you know!
Mod -1: Corporate Shill.
I turn to TV and a hotmail account when I want advertisements, thanks.
how does that tie in to an application framework?
It's neurological. For example, twitching, screaming, and throwing monitors accross the room are all common effects of using Microsoft Windows.
Healthcare article at Kuro5hin
The magic 8-ball says: "Outlook not so good"
Bart: Wow, it does work!
...just my 2 gil.
Don't worry about it. Many people experience similar hallucinations on psychoactives. Take it easy and try not to get paranoid. A beer or two would help too.
An Indian-American Hindu committed to non-violent thought/speech/action alarmed by the global explosion of radical Islam
I am not one of those people who go around professing the evilness of Microsoft. I did, however, come across this logo on news.com.com that does look pretty evil. I doubt that it is official or anything
Evil Logo
Not everything is analogous to cars. Car analogies rarely work.
Did anyone else read that as "Microsoft Officially Shows Lowerhorn"?
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
Wow, based on that, I'd put Longhorn up there with ebola in the "must have" category.
I don't know, but it works for me.
Either way, it sounds dumb and useless.
So.. I just have to ask: Where's Linux headed next?
World domination.
Duh.
Microsoft is to software what Budweiser is to beer.
About a decade ago, there was the Mac II fx, a machine so fast it could do an infinite loop in about half an hour...
Outlook is the ULTIMATE application, it is a VIRTUAL OPERATING SYSTEM which is AUTOMATICALLY logged in as the administrator.
Sounds almost like Emacs, minus the admin rights.
Am I the only one who finds it frightening that MS is going to offer a beta of a service pack? (Notwithstanding all the arguments stating all MS software is in a perpetual state of beta, anyway. :) )
When their numbers dwindled from 50 to 8, the dwarves began to suspect Hungry.
Hmm. Microsoft Piles--sounds like a real pain in the ass.
I had piles long before apple patented them!
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Great. They took a simple digital time readout that takes up minimal screen space and replaced it with an analog representation that must take up at 1/64th of the screen!
And have they made ANY changes to Paint since Windows 3.1????
Wanted: witty unique signature. Must be willing to relocate.
"building apps that are as smart as Outlook.
Too.....many.....jokes!
I want a standard law, damn it all.
Once and for all, how should we make plurals in English?
THE RULE - you make a word plural by putting "s" on the end, "es" if it already ends in "s"
apple -> apples
virus -> viruses
moose -> mooses
goose -> gooses
fish -> fishs
foot -> foots
tooth -> tooths
house -> houses
mouse -> mouses
What? Don't like saying tooths or mooses? Too bad. A rule is a rule!
While we're at it, I propose we spell everything phonetically from this point forward.
Ther. Nise and simpel. Pleze forward these rulz to evrywon yu no.
will be pronounced "Win Fix". Alternate pronunciations: "reformat hard disk", "install Linux"
Patents only last twenty years. This one will have expired by the time Longhorn ships.
The company "also unveiled 'WinFX,' which it described as a new application programming model for Windows that is the evolution of its .NET programming framework.
And in other news, the band NOFX has doubled their sales on the iTunes music store today among Mac enthusiasts.
Ok, sorry, it was funnier in my head five minutes ago.
Sound waves should be free!
Good it's about time that we get another programming language!
So lets go over this:
;-P
1. User gets email.
2. User clicks email to view it.
3. User is infected with virus.
Explain to me how its the users fault again?
User used Outlook