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'."

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Clipping Longhorn

[Anonymous Coward]

NOOOOOO! CLIPPY! NOT AGAIN!

Vegas, a good place for a Naming Convention

[andyrut]

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.

the words of several hundred CTOs:

[maxbang]

why did I sign up for that stupid upgrade plan? WHY???

Not here

[MooCows]

"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!

On the flipside...

[Anonymous Coward]

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?

Re:Blackcomb

[Anonymous Coward]

In all fairness, he didn't say which decade.

Re:WinFS WILL be in the next version, just no netw

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

infamous

[Anonymous Coward]

[...]Windows XP Premium will start shipping with new PCs, which will include a new version of the infamous Windows Media Player.

It's more than famous, it's infamous. (With apologies to The Three Amigos!).

Re:WinFS WILL be in the next version, just no netw

[jmulvey]

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.

That would just be tit-for-tat. Forrester Research has already concluded that Linux/J2EE causes colon cancer

Re:Microsoft needs exactly ONE new product

[Gerald]

This sounds like my first car. It was safe to drive as long as you:

1. Didn't drive in the rain (wipers didn't work).
2. Didn't drive on wet roads (bald tires).
3. Didn't poke an appendage through the hole in the floorpan at speed.
4. Held onto the driver's side door during right turns (it flew open).
5. Kept a spare battery in the trunk.
6. Kept a spare clutch and throwout bearing in the trunk.

Just a few simple precautions, and you were perfectly safe.

Re:New Windows versions being programmed in India

[Anonymous Coward]

Unfortunately, entirely in Hindi.

"Clips" longhorn??

[Bilange]

Is it only me, or that sounded like "adding Clippy in Lorghorn"?

Maybe I used Office too much :)