Avalon Preview Released for XP

CliffH writes "For those that want to play with a preview release of Avalon (the November Community Technology Preview) and the SDK, head on over to this page and download to your heart's delight. It is 261MB+ and is already going slow so be warned."

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and the ceo says...

[viva_fourier]

"Avalon" unifies how Windows creates, displays, and manipulates documents, media, and user interface. This enables developers and designers to create visually-stunning, differentiated user experiences that improve customer connection...

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ad infinitum...

Wow. I read this from KDE 3.3 and thought...

[RayDude]

Who cares? I'm using KDE because it works, its free, and its not riddled with viruses, worms, trojans, spy ware, and BSODs. It doesn't have to be reboot every week to keep it from slowing down or crashing less. Is KDE as pretty as Avalon? Probably not. Is it as fast? Maybe not. But can someone hack my linux box and make it a denizen of spamer evils? Not bloody likely. Raydude

idiot? No, just an old troll.

[twitter]

..and one idiot who thinks he can stave off all that by posting his insanely smart prediction about it.

Nah, just another troll. It's designed to insult, infuriate and waste time. No problem, I have a little time to waste picking him apart.

Notice he does what he complains about:

Instead of discussing the technology ... I have a feeling this will be a bunch of +5 Funny Microsoft-bash posts.

Notice any technical details after that? I did not. The post is completely uninformative.

Without reading further, he then bashes every Slashdot reader.

So he's come here, to a free software discussion forum, to tell us how much he hates everyone else but loves Microsoft:

they do have smart engineers at Microsoft ... it looks like interesting stuff, and I can't wait to not only develop with it, but develop with the competing technologies that will also spring up as a result.

Great, Bonch, you can wipe the drool of your shirt. Yeah, that name is familiar from older trollish stuff. Let's go back in time and look at some of the M$ apologizing and Slashdot insulting Bonch has done:

1. Blames the user for MyDoom, which distributed itself through Kazaa
2. Begging for free software goodies to be ported to M$'s junk.
3. "Slashdot discussion--the Internet king of groupthink and propaganda." More insults, you wonder why he reads Slashdot.
4. Here he is bitching over being blacklisted for his behavior. Of course, he was on the infamous troll post.
5. "Slashdot is a bunch of kooks complaining about stuff. His way of excusing the use of M$ garbage in voting machines that were both impossible to verify and easy to manipulate.

Well, that's enough fun for me for now. Thanks for playin, Bonch. I hope your account is deleted soon.

Re:Before you make any stupid jokes....

[SlashdotMeNow]

Parent might be OT but modding it down to oblivion will not change the fact that Lunix still cannot compete with Windows or OSX. And the way it's going right now it probably never will. Every year we see MAJOR advances in Windows and Macs, while Lunix just seems to plod along. Case in point: I needed to install Linux on a machine and decided on Debian, being one of the most popular distros for servers. It took me AGES to find a pre-compiled install package! And installing it was pretty painful.

The Lunix community needs to recognise that there's something wrong and figure out a way to change it quick, otherwise it will be left behind in the dust. A modern OS is more than just performance and security.

Lunix was and probably always will be 3 years away from taking over the desktop market.

HI, TWITTER!

[Anonymous Coward]

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