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Longhorn to be Released in 2006, Sans WinFS
skillio writes "Everyone's favorite OS maven, Bill Gates, announced a release date for Longhorn on Friday. He confirms what many had suspected - Microsoft will attempt to complete this release in calendar year 2006. The most notable element of this announcement was Gates' admission that WinFS, Microsoft's next-generation file system, would not be complete in time for this release - surprising, since this was the most hyped component of the next iteration of Windows."
Am I the only one who thinks that "Longhorn" doesn't sound like an operating system but rather a name for a porn star? I can already see the advertisements: "Before the new Microsoft OS goes Gold, install Long Horn Silver!" In the context of men wearing tight MSN butterfly-man suits, it seems somehow appropriate...
Yep. Avalon, the new-fangled window manager was also cut for the final release. Windows version Copland?
news of further delays is a kind of marketing in itself. logic of anticipation. lets just call it "Windows Stillborn" and forget about it.
First it was HL2, Longhorn is second, what next? DNF??
The IT section color scheme sucks.
Do you remember back on July 12, 1979 at Chicago's Comiskey Park when radio jock Steve Dahl rode the rising setiment of anti-disco and held a promotional where if you brought a disco record to the game to be destroyed at half-time you would get an admission for only $0.98?
It got me thinking about a little project I think would be at the very least, ammusing.
Something like, a cordinated anti-MS day in about a year when LUGS all around the world get together on a certain day and destroy MS software as well as MS effigees to protest our discontent. I'm picturing piles of old win3.11 floppies and cds of 9x, NT, office, games, books, and hardware billowing thick tenticles of black smoke, smearing the sky with... I don't want to pollute the environment with smoke, especially with MS's taint, so make that piles of stuff to be blown up with demolitions and shattered with small arms fire.
Then we could build a huge effigee of Bill Gates and Steve Balmer bowing before the penguin. Then have the penguin announce in a booming voice that tyanny in the land of Microsoft has to end and that his cleansing fire clean MS of dishonesty, at which time the penguin effigee would belch a fire ball that consumes the Bill Gates and Steve Balmer effigee.
Heck, this could even be an annual event or a holiday comemerating a specific moment in history when man freed himself from one of the worst tyrranies this world has yet faced and to celebrate the general spirit of individuals who wish to free and those around them as well.
This suggestion is to be taken with a grain of salt, but in a lot of ways, I'm serious. At the very least, if one LUG were to host something like this ala Burning Man style, I'm sure there would be a huge draw with resulting publicity and maybe some eyeopening in Redmond. However, it's time for the people to take to it Microsoft instead of them doing it the other way around.
.. and I just used my last "giant system requirement" joke on the Half Life 2 story.
Eek.... who would want to trust their data to a file system so complex that even Microsoft can't finish it after multiple years of development?
Just make a BFS driver. :P
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They have to worry about whether it would work for users. I don't think the Be engineers had to... :-)
Be nice to Microsoft, they still have to pay Fisher Price royalties for the color scheme they have in XP ;)
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But in a nutshell, yes. You get to pay MS to say "Hey look at me, I got that newfangled Winders! It's the Shoehorn version!"
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Promising all remarkable and amazing things that keep us on our toes and when the product hits the shelves it's only ever so slightly different from its predecessor.
You'd think Peter Molyneux worked for Microsoft.
Yeah, just like SP2 wasn't going to break anything either.
Dude, did you really just say that??
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You're absolutely right.
This has been Bill Gate's marketing approach since Day One at Microsoft.
Read the biographies of him. They say the exact same thing. Every time Microsoft customers get antsy, he comes out with "Stay the course! The next one will be dynamite!"
I think George Bush learned it from him. Iraq didn't turn out well? Well, relax, Iran will be much better! And wait until you see North Korea!
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