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Windows Longhorn Beta for June Release
An Anonymous Reader writes "According to CNET, the Windows Longhorn Beta 1 is supposedly set for release this June. The Register has commentary on the delays the new OS has faced." From the article: "Longhorn was originally supposed to ship in 2004. In May, this year release was pushed back to 2005. This week Longhorn's availability has been delayed even further, with Microsoft execs declining to say when exactly the operating system might ship, eWeek reports."
What's Longhorn? Bill Gates name for his...?
If you need some component installed, just make sure it's prereq's are there. Oh wait - this sounds a lot like Linux.
We tried that. It was called DLL Hell.
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If someone makes a Duke Nukem joke, I'm going to shoot myself.
That Longhorn will ship with the full retail version of Duke Nukem Forever.
Striking fear in the authors of godawful fanfiction, I am here, appearing in darkness, Tuxedo Jack!
Here's proof they intended a 2004 release. Well, maybe it's fake. I found it in 2002.
A programmer is a machine for converting coffee into code.
They are trying their best to get that new desktop environment integrated. You know, the Duke Nuk'em Forever Desk'top. It blows viruses away, melts system freezes, and liberates both Gen Failure and Gen P. Fault from the communist zombie insurgent terrorists.
Is there any wonder that it is taking longer than expected?
I have to stop wasting so much time reading Slashdot. It's interfering with my crystal meth addiction.
Heck, Cairo was announced, what? 14 years ago? Longhorn was the new Cairo, now delayed to Blackcomb, as "Cairo" wasn't getting any more press. After all, "we're writing about Cairo again?
The cesspool just got a check and balance.
...with a beta
Well, that's Microsoft for you
Nuff sed.
;)
Did anyone notice that the Register story is dated September 2003? Explains how it is talking about "May this year"
How come when a game company like Blizzard says "it will be released when it's ready" everyone applauds their restraint, yet when Windows release dates are up in the air everyone slams Microsoft?
Oh, maybe it's because Windows still won't be ready when it's shipped...
Sometimes my arms bend back.
Oh, for Pete's ...dude, seriously. Can't we get through one damn story without somebody making an Orwell analogy? Especially one as lame-ass as this one?
We could solve all the world's energy problems if we could just hook Orwell's corpse up to a generator to capture all the rotational energy that's currently being wasted on postmortem outrage.
Microsoft is also ripping off Debian's release schedule! ::: rimshot :::
Hopefully I didn't put any [] around my words.
Not so micro. Or soft. He might be the new "giver".
* shudder *
I am defenseless. Use your button. Mod me down with all of your hatred.
I bet this will be the most open and secure operating system ever.
I want my rights back. I was actually using them when our government stole them after 9/11.
I just did a new install of 2k on my new computer, after deleting XP. What does XP offer that 2k doesn't? Nothing. I can live without Playskool widgets.
Half Life 2 is due out this... Oh. Wait...
I mod down pyramid schemes in sigs.
Hey, that also works for Debian! Sarge has been ~1 month away for... 12 months. :(
You were expecting a beta release to be fine-tuned for performance?
What are you talking about, they offer "great new features" the first Tuesday of every month! ;-)
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Find if you're running dos edit on it. Sucks if you want it to do some real work.
:)
Actually, it doesn't support 16-bit DOS applications.