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Microsoft Clips Longhorn
Gr8Apes writes "Microsoft is clipping Longhorn to get the already-delayed follow-up to Windows XP out the door by 2006. MS has decided to remove some of the most ambitious features. Blackcomb is the version to follow Longhorn, and is expected at the end of the decade. The full new file system feature has been moved to Blackcomb. Other notable parts of the story, in MS's efforts to get its DRM into play, a new version, Windows XP Premium will start shipping with new PCs, which will include a new version of the infamous Windows Media Player. This version will have the ability to shop at on-line stores like the one MS plans to launch later this year. It's their move to 'outflank Apple'."
NOOOOOO! CLIPPY! NOT AGAIN!
Also in the long line of adjective-noun combinations for their operating systems, Microsoft will follow up on Longhorn and Blackcomb with Sweatyphone, Steelfridge, and Purpletoilet.
why did I sign up for that stupid upgrade plan? WHY???
I also reply below your current threshold.
"Blackcomb is the version to follow Longhorn, and is expected at the end of the decade."
I guess we can expect it in 2013 at the earliest.
Omnes stulti sunt.
"Windows XP Premium will start shipping with new PCs, which will include a new version of the infamous Windows Media Player."
Not in Europe, we're going to get the "Windows XP Premium Lite" edition, hah!
The path I walk alone is endlessly long.
30 minutes by bike, 15 by bus.
Windows XP Premium will start shipping with new PCs
Buy an operating system, and a PC comes with it? Hasn't it traditionally been the other way around?
At least they can say Longhorn was released on schedule!
Well, not delayed too much, anyway.
You expect accurate summaries from /. stories on Microsoft? That will happen when Linux has 90% market share.
You could submit a story that Microsoft causes cancer, and they'd publish it with a bunch of spoof or dead links without batting an eye.
Yeah! So right!
I'll stick with OS X where I get Expose for only $129,
M$ clips Longhorn. /T
-So then it's Shorthorn!
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It's more than famous, it's infamous. (With apologies to The Three Amigos!).
I think you're referring to Microsoft Linux (and its mascot will indeed be Clippy, colleagues at the recent PDC tell me).
Microsoft Linux is due out 2007, right after the breakup (of MS that is).
That would just be tit-for-tat. Forrester Research has already concluded that Linux/J2EE causes colon cancer
Doing help and support you end up fixing MOST of the problems when people are attempting to download music / videos - not doing casual browsing of the internet. When someone purposely looks for 'free music downloads' or something similiar then they are bound to run into sites that are bloating out the seams with popup advertising and activeX scripts that do everything but butter your toast. Actually, telling the average user note to download *anything* seems to work the best. 6 months virus free as a result down here!
- Didn't drive in the rain (wipers didn't work).
- Didn't drive on wet roads (bald tires).
- Didn't poke an appendage through the hole in the floorpan at speed.
- Held onto the driver's side door during right turns (it flew open).
- Kept a spare battery in the trunk.
- Kept a spare clutch and throwout bearing in the trunk.
Just a few simple precautions, and you were perfectly safe.Ballmer: "Yes, YES! The same black comb which helps cover my baldspot! We'll simply comb over our security issues with obscurity!"
Gates: "Brilliant!"
New Guy: "But sirs, we can see Mr. Ballmer's baldspot. It blinded half the staff at the softball game."
Ballmer: "The folks from New Dehli love my full head of hair."
New Guy: "Brilliant!"
Unfortunately, entirely in Hindi.
Haha. You forgot:
7. Don't let your wife drive.
8. Don't drive under influence.
9. Keep the kids quiet in the back.
10. Don't do more than 40mph.
11. Keep spare brake fluid in a bottle.
You're dead right. Selling products "for the masses" with a list of "OK so long as you..." is useless.
Is it only me, or that sounded like "adding Clippy in Lorghorn"?
:)
Maybe I used Office too much
"...a generation of kids has grown up thinking Trance is the shittiest music since country and western." - Paul van Dyk
Wonder if it'll just end up being a service pack for XP?
This version will have the ability to shop at on-line stores like the one MS plans to launch later this year.
What? Now I have to pay for viruses?!
Achille Talon
Hop!
Indeed. This is truly a dramatic shift in Microsoft corporate policy.
I know god exists. I read it on the internet, so it must be true.
I bought my Apple iBook yesterday.
*twitch*
Ummm...I think you are wrong...
No platform, especially one deployed at such great lengths, will be 100% secure... There are just too many things that could possibly cause problems.
Well lets say I develop an OS that is REALLY buggy, but I am the only person to use it, nobody will exploit it because they dont even know it exists! Now I then sell this OS to EVERYONE in the world, and everyone has an OS that nobody can exploit!
Muhhahaha!! I am rich AND secure! Life is good!
Now I do think im missing some sort of step in there however, the obscurity turning into security, but oh well, I am RICH!
[I can picture a world without war, without hate. I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it]
"Later this year, it (MSFT) plans to begin a new marketing campaign, dubbed internally as Windows XP Reloaded."
Sounds appropriate... incredible special effects, which turn out to be mere bells & whistles to make up for the lack of substance. Brilliant!
"We are the first generation to influence the climate and the last generation to escape the consequences." - John McCain
grown ups don't say "Suck balls"
I would feel insulted or take them seriously, though the same admins thought it was OK to use the default database admin account name and the default -- *blank* -- password on the primary image database server. It only processed 50,000 checks up to and beyond $100,000 USD, so maybe they were right to not bother with a password -- such trivial amounts after all. :-/
What company do you work for again? I have a withdrawl to make.