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Windows XP To Get Longhorn Technologies

Posted by michael on from the infinite-beta dept.

SilentChris writes "According to CNet, Microsoft is revising their plan for Longhorn. In addition to scaling back WinFS, they will also have separate releases of Avalon (the new graphical system) and Indigo (a new network architecture) for Windows XP and 2003. If most of the updates will be available for current versions of Windows, what is the incentive to upgrade?"

15 of 451 comments (clear)

  1. Obligatory by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I have changed my plans. Pray I do not alter them any further.

    -MSFT

  2. If most of the updates will be available for curre by phiberhack · · Score: 5, Funny

    If most of the updates will be available for current versions of Windows, what is the incentive to upgrade?"

    That it will WORK!

  3. Indigo by M.C.+Hampster · · Score: 5, Funny

    I didn't know about Avalon, but Microsoft has said for quite a while they were going to be releasing Indigo for platforms other than Longhorn. Indigo is a technology that will be replacing .NET remoting and it allows for secure, reliable and transactional communication between .NET applications. It only made sense to have a version available for other versions of Windows to make sure that applications could communicate.

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  4. Re:I want to know too! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    I'm running Win98SE without any trouble. Why should I upgrade to Longhorn?

    Random Guess: You desperately want to see Doom 3 run on your old hardware at .5 fps?

  5. Re:Well, duh. by Mateito · · Score: 3, Funny
    even Bill can't believe he has such a tight control of the market

    C'mon, this is the man credited with saying (on more than one accasion I might add):

    "Bwahahahahahaha. Fools! I'll destroy them all!

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  6. Re:History repeats? by MikeMacK · · Score: 3, Funny
    Maybe Longhorn will be another Windows Me

    I'm sure those words would echo through the halls of Microsoft like the sound of a swift approaching doom!

  7. Re:Historical, People Like Upgrades by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Longhorn is supposed to be a "unified" desktop with Internet, mail, etc.

    So the OS won't just be IE anymore? It'll also be Outlook Express? Helloooo viruses.

  8. Re:History repeats? by LilMikey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Apple had originally made ambitious plans for Copland

    In all fairness I think it was Stallone's acting that did it in.

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    LilMikey.com... I'll stop doing it when you sto
  9. The Joy of Updating isn't the Update Itself... by syntap · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... but the joy of hacking the latest Microsoft license registration procedure.

    My best sig is this one.

  10. Incentive: by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 5, Funny

    Longhorn will automatically render the Slashdot IT page in a better colour. It might even get people to switch from Linux to Windows.

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    ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
  11. Re:Historical, People Like Upgrades by sidhartha · · Score: 4, Funny

    When I'm done upgrading I can look my wife in the eye and pretend that only an Alpha Nerd could possibly complete such a gargantuan task. She will have to think twice about any plans to leave me for truly there are none higher.

  12. Re:"Scaling back WinFS" by R2.0 · · Score: 4, Funny

    "All it takes is a little basic research first."

    You're new here, aren't you?

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    "As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could fly." A. Carlson
  13. Re:Why Longhorn Stuffs? by I(rispee_I(reme · · Score: 3, Funny

    visit file:///C:/Con/Con for one of many valid reasons to upgrade your operating system.

  14. Re:"Scaling back WinFS" by new_here_arent_you · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, *I* am new_here_arent_you.

  15. Re:History repeats? by HerrGoober · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's a bit strong!

    Inappropriate use of the word acting I'd say...