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Microsoft Clips Longhorn

Posted by michael on from the going-to-the-vet-to-get-tutored dept.

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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  1. Re:WinFS WILL be in the next version, just no netw by I+Be+Hatin' · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Some people work in industries where music and videos ARE the business, and they ARE the data. And those businesses need DRM in order to make their business viable in the digital age.

    True enough, but most businesses do not need DRM, because they are not in the music/TV/video/etc. industries. So what do these customers want, and why isn't Microsoft releasing a product that addresses the needs of the vast majority of their customers? I see two possibilities: 1) there really isn't much else that their customers need; they're happy with Windows the way it is, or 2) MS is putting its interests ahead of its customers' interests (which it can do because it is a monopoly -- most companies can't get away with this). Now which do you think is more plausible?

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  2. Re:WinFS WILL be in the next version, just no netw by Hooya · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    I don't see a long line of people waiting to pay up...

    umm... ok... you've just got done saying, in a very indirect way, that in this demand/supply based economy, there is no demand for the product at the price point it's offered. or else there would have been the demand, which would have resulted in the long line of people waiting to pay up. instead of artificially inflating the price up (by use of various other methods..) ummm... maybe the price should drop?! but what do i know? i just remember the demand/supply curve thing from high school economics.