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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."
Could this delay mean that the year of Linux' dominance over microsoft is finally approaching?
Let's not forget that one can hate his government, but love his country.
Yes..[supressed giggle]...Longhorn will be a...[barely contained laugh]...complete rewrite! I have some prime property in Florida to sell you, and I need your assistance in moving some money around in Algeria...
How long you figure it would take to emerge a new version of OpenOffice on 10,000 machines?
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Anyone here truly surprised? Doesn't seem likely to me. With products such as windows, bill gates doesn't need to do much more than sit and pick at his ass all day. ^_^ Aside from that, though, I'm not too sure that even if Longhorn comes out in 2006, it'll be entirely bug-free, or that it will be even close to the supposed stability of Mac OS X. Well there's one thing Windows might be better than Mac at, and that's subtracting. ;-)
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Now no WinFS!
First it was "no WinFS over the network"!
What next? Roll back NTFS to FAT32?
We TOLD YOU they couldn't do it! Did you believe us? Oh, no, the Windows trolls know best! Microsoft can do no wrong!
Now the Windows trolls will say, "Microsoft didn't cancel WinFS! They just postponed it!"
Whoop-de-doo, morons!
Meanwhile, Reiser 4 on Linux lays the groundwork for enhanced metadata reporting by allowing the efficient storage of millions of small files in the file system.
Where will Linux be in 2006 after two more years of development?
Faster, more secure, more reliable, and heavily enhanced, that's where.
Have a nice day, Windows trolls!
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