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A Quick Look at Longhorn Build 4053
An anonymous reader writes "Even though the next generation Windows product is not due until late 2005 or even 2006, here is a look at what Microsoft has in store for it's future operating system. 'Without a vast amount of tweaking, this build is a resource hog. At idle, with no applications running, the commit charge is at a whopping 483 MB!! Obviously, the final release or even the beta releases will not consume this much of the system resources.'"
"They must be running IIS on Longhorn!" or something. I heard that if nobody says something like that in a Slashdot thread, the universe implodes.
They're just waiting for the hardware needed to run it to become available...
Is this Gate's law once again counter-manding Moore's Law?
Joe
I just wonder how they where able to graft X-Windows into their current source code.
Intel: Hey Microsoft why don't you slow down windows a bit? Microsoft: Why? Intel: That way home users will actually have a reason to buy a 3Ghz processor
At idle, with no applications running, the commit charge is at a whopping 483 MB!! Obviously, the final release or even the beta releases will not consume this much of the system resources.
What'd they do? Replace the Windows GUI with Gnome?
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Bill gates has called a meeting with the memory chip manufacturers...
GATES: "Gentlemen, I'm here to offer you a proposition. With my evil, resource bloating operating system, you can join with Microsoft and we will band together and control all the memory on the planet."
JAPANESE BUSINESSMAN: "I am not comfortable with this."
GATES: "I understand."
(He presses a red button on his arm rest)
(A trap door opens up from the ceiling and 10,000 copies of WordPerfect, Borland C++, Lotus, and Quattro Pro, bludgeon the Japanese semiconductor CEO to death. His lifeless body slumps over.)
GATES: "Anyone else have any problems with my plan?"
Geez and I thought Gentoo had a lot of builds...
Nah, just feels that way cause they take so long to compile.
Good god what on earth have you done? I run Mandrake 9.1 with Gnome on 128! Looks to me like you've gotta have something needlessly running.
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It will consume more...
The democrats are fucking traitors and losers, especially the former deaniacs. President Bush, our hero is setting the right course and he knows exactly where he wants to lead this country. When are you dipshit liberals gonna get it? Open source, lunix, macs they're all the same. Total shit operating systems and hippies. I stick with my American made Windows XP and my American made Dell pc. You fucking traitors can go ahead and use apple and lunix like the traitors you are.
Probably they put the animated "Clippy" on the Start button.
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You know how the Microsoft employees do: Once in a while they press several times the "Build All" button, so their bosses think they've been working hard.
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Maybe it won't take until 2006 to finish Longhorn, maybe they just need to wait until DRAM prices fall enough that people will be able to afford to run it.
At Microsoft, our current take is that memory and storage are cheap and that every user will have a machine with 1 gig of RAM when Longhorn hits the stores. In the end it will come down to whether the user can live without the Longhorn without having to upgrade their system. Although some users might choose not upgrade, we feel that the overall majority of users will see the value our software provides and opt to upgrade.
Moore's Law says that the numbers of transistors per integrated circuit increased exponentionally.
One day a economist overheard this and didn't know how to apply it, so he looked at a price graph and observed that technology cost half what it did 18 months before.A Marketing major heard it and thought that too drery, and declared speed doubled every 18 months.
Then an MCSE came along, and proclaimed efficient programming isn't cost effective, and Windows bloat will be absorbed.So, first he calles it micro - soft, and now he's calling it long - horn?
micro. soft.
long. horn.
I think that makes my phallic implications painfully obvious. My work here is done.
The installation wizard has improved greatly from past installers that Windows 2000 and XP had.
That's excellent, since that's the application I use the most when using Windows on my PC...
a fully-loaded 2003 server running dreamweaver
That could be the most appropriate use of a server I've ever seen.
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What will the base system Microsoft target contain, in terms of memory?
Bill Gates himself answered this question years ago.
And I bet there will STILL be people who will swear that they can run it on 64mb of ram! :)
It's been a long time.
And yet, it's still less than 640, which billg set as limit long time ago. :)
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Ohh, yeah, that were KB
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You're right, releasing new software is so evil! We must stop them!
Why is anything anything?
just in case... ;-)
'System Properties' can be found in the control panel under 'System' or by right-clicking 'My Computer'.
OH. MY. GOD.
I can't believe it's still there.
And it doesn't even handle right clicks, just like the original! Ahh, sweet sweet nostalgia.
Also, it makes me appreciate the start menu a lot more.
You know, I did try that, but the girl still wasn't impressed with the size of my X. Am I doing something wrong? Maybe I should try those pills those kind people advertise by email.
My sig will be released in 2015 third quarter. Rating pending.
Hey, I found out today you can buy computers pre-loaded with the alpha version of Longhorn - the store was all white with wood floors, and they were selling these cool MP3 players too.
My laptop came in this cool aluminum case, and it's running pretty well. Searches were really fast and the new browser (I think they are calling it Jungle or something like that) was really great. Plus I had no viruses even when I connected it to the internet for a minute without thinking!! And in this version they made that huge bar on the side of the screen you could see in the article screenshots resizable. So I think Longhorn will do just fine.
The fact that you use Outlook Express makes you evil. Your computer is running slowly to punish you.
Game... blouses.
Good luck just fitting the paging code into 64MB! :)
Gates' Law: Every 18 months, the speed of software halves.
The Speed of Software havles every 18 months, So I think when Longhorn will be released, We will need at least 5 GHz to run it properly
Remember, it begins with the phrase "nondeterministic behaviour" and ends with your office full of sacrificed animals.
>so that will end up being a 6-7 year interval between OS releases
Look at the bright side, at least no one can laugh at Debian again.
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