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Microsoft Plans WinXP "Reloaded"
An anonymous reader writes "Looks like Microsoft changed their minds and are planning a new OS release before Longhorn. They are calling it XP Reloaded."
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I am not sure if it is Reloaded or Rebooted.
What's next.. Windows Revolutions?
lol.
Does this mean that the Wachowski Bros. can call their next film..
MS Matrix?
kinda like the matrix reloaded... does that mean it will be ok and have some decent fight scenes but overall be worse than the original? or does it mean Bill Gates is reloading the virtual word we live in convinced that we have a good and stable OS but really we are all prisoners?? ...AGHHHH GOD SAVE US!
Matt
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Did they license the Matrix Reloaded trademark? Or maybe they're just a bunch of hippocrates.
Yeah mod parent up :-)
Daniel
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Reloaded is just an internal name for it..
Secondly, the article talks of an interim release. They wouldn't want to call something that breaks compatibility a service pack.
They probably want to build in a bunch of support for cooly new hardware. Pretty much like Windows 98 SE, they needed an update bigger than a service pack to get USB, etc, working..
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... who aren't Slashdot members, I think one of us should at least describe the "pun", so to speak, that Microsoft is employing here. Face it -- some people haven't actually seen The Matrix films, believe it or not!
As this release would be the second major release of the XP baseline, it's appropriately named after a popular science fiction film by Andy and Larry Wachowski (yes, they're related) in which a man and his rebel friends have three days until 250,000 probes discover a place called Zion and destroy it and its inhabitants. The main character is Neo, played by Keanu Reeves. You can find out more about the film at this site.
One interesting question is whether Warner Brothers will look for $$$ from Microsoft since MS is kind of riding the wave created by the WB-sponsored film through marketing and clever research aimed at science fiction enthusiasts and horror/dark fiction lovers and social deviants (the film's in a dark green tint and features many violent anti-societal scenes).
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this is nothing new. ive had windows reloaded at least once a year since 1995.
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Remember how Win98 was supposed to be the last of the DOS-based OSs? ... but then Microsoft couldn't ship Windows 2000 in time, so they threw some extra crap into Win98SE and called it Millennium Edition.
Sounds to me like XP Reloaded is the next Windows Me.
*shudder*
Sounds to me more like XP Reinstalled...
No, more Like Windows XP Rebooted....
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XP Reloaded...
The worst of the trilogy...
the real name is XP Rebooted!
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My Win2k3/ IIS6 / SQL combo runs the same kind of custom content as a recently acquired Linux / Apache / JSP / MySQL combo. The Apache server is consistently slower. Probably a matter of configuration tweaking. Now that Win2k3 ships totally locked down, but well-tweaked OOB when each necessary service is started, I think Linux is going to have a real run for its money in the SMB market.
XP
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Doesn't Windows Reloaded soudn a lot like Matrix Reloaded? I mean they even made a Matrix spoof.