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A Quick Look at Longhorn Build 4053

Posted by timothy on from the look-away-look-away-look-away dept.

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.'"

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  1. Let's get this out of the way by Aliencow · · Score: 5, Funny

    "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.

  2. Perhaps it's ready now? by vitalstatistix · · Score: 5, Funny

    They're just waiting for the hardware needed to run it to become available...

  3. Hmm... by JoeLinux · · Score: 4, Funny

    Is this Gate's law once again counter-manding Moore's Law?

    Joe

  4. I Hear Intel by The+Lost+Supertone · · Score: 4, Funny

    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

  5. New GUI? by Skjellifetti · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

    ducks

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    1. Re:New GUI? by ThisIsFred · · Score: 4, Funny

      What'd they do? Replace the Windows GUI with Gnome?

      Look more like a lightweight version of KDE to me.

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  6. Meanwhile in his deep undersea fortress... by mabu · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?"

  7. Re:That's a lot of builds by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Geez and I thought Gentoo had a lot of builds...

    Nah, just feels that way cause they take so long to compile.

  8. Obviously by Jedi+Holocron · · Score: 5, Funny
    Obviously, the final release or even the beta releases will not consume this much of the system resources.


    It will consume more...
  9. Not sure if people have made this joke before by chiyosdad · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  10. Re:Article Text (slashdotted) by syusuf · · Score: 5, Funny

    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...

  11. Re:That's alotta commit by heinousjay · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  12. Re:Why is that obvious? by GuidoJ · · Score: 5, Funny

    What will the base system Microsoft target contain, in terms of memory?

    Bill Gates himself answered this question years ago.

  13. You can buy machines preloaded with longhorn alpha by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

  14. Re:Resources by lewp · · Score: 5, Funny

    The fact that you use Outlook Express makes you evil. Your computer is running slowly to punish you.

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