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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?"

8 of 451 comments (clear)

  1. FIRST by Gundampilotspaz · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    FIRST POST!

    1. Re:FIRST by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      yuo failed it! like so many who failed before yuo, and so many who have yet to fail. such is the nature of the frist psot.

  2. Half Life 2 by gt25500 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Yeah, yeah... Great... But where is my HL2 crack?

    --
    _________ Help me get a PSP!
  3. Get the Longhorn dashboard by chadwbennett · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    To get a free taste of longhorn and one of the coolest new features go to http://www.snpsoftware.com/dashboard.html I really enjoy this little tool.

    It's for real. I normally don't go for these things but...Free ipods (click here to get yours)

    1. Re:Get the Longhorn dashboard by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Not really, I got my free iPod in the mail two days ago. (and if you want a TV, http://www.freeflatscreens.com/default.aspx?refere r=7340532)

  4. Re:Yeah.. by tirnacopu · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Actually, inside intel from Linux HQ state that Santa gave it to you.

  5. MODS: TROLL ALERT by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Don't be taken in by this idiot--he has accounts under the names bonch and Overly Critical Guy. He has a history of astroturfing for Microsoft, bashing anything Open Source, using lies and half-truths to get modded up, karma whoring, and the usual trolling (under his bonch account, he got a troll posted to the front page of Slashdot).

    All you have to do to check the veracity of this is to look at the posting history of his two old personnae (linked above) and his current one to figure it out.

    Please do not mod this jerk up--every time you do the Slashdot S/N ratio goes down while bonch/Overly Critical Guy/rd_syringe just laughs at you.

    This has been a public service announcement

  6. Re:History repeats? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I used to work at a company that showed movie previews to people in malls and got their responses.

    The entire time I worked on that preview I pronounced it like the composer's name. It wasn't until the movie came out that I realized it was COP-land. People must've thought I had a really weird accent.

    Upon re-reading, I see that this story isn't really that funny, but I'm posting it anyway.