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New Longhorn Screenshots And Schedule

Posted by Zonk on from the oo-pretty dept.

Mozillabird writes "WinSupersite has recently updated the Longhorn release schedule and has provided some new screenshots of Aero. The first beta of Longhorn is May 2005, though there is some speculation about how much of Avalon and Aero will be implemented in that beta. The "big beta" is scheduled for this Fall."

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  1. Re:Riiiiight... by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 4, Funny

    Better than their current disclosure approach, called "Shlock and Flaw".

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  2. Re:A little comparison: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Paul Thurrott made it clear a few months ago that Spotlight and many other of Apple's features in Panther and Tiger are Longhorn features copied by Apple and put into their OS after Microsoft.

    Yes. I think he said it with a straight face.

  3. Re:A little comparison: by Vicsun · · Score: 5, Funny

    Oh, excellent, I posted plain text.

    Raw and uncut.
    Consider this to be hardcore old-skewl style: before they had them fancy html interpreters they just looked at the text and IMAGINED its formatting.

  4. Re:A little comparison: by WhiteWolf666 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't you know, Microsoft invented INVENTING?

    Innovation. Microsoft Patented.

    Everything else is derivative.

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  5. Fleeing the country... by lxt · · Score: 4, Funny

    Looking at the screenshot, does anyone else think someone at Microsoft might be trying to flee the country once Longhorn has been released? Because there seem to be an awful lot of "Booking cruises at the last minute", "BusRoutes" etc. documents in that folder...

  6. Bryan has too much time on his hands by Pedrito · · Score: 5, Funny

    My only comment on that screenshot is that Bryan has too much time on his hands if he can write a 65k Word document on "Bathroom Ideas". But I do look forward to his upcoming bestseller, "Pantry Ideas"

  7. Yawn by JerkyBoy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, really exciting stuff there. I guess the really interesting stuff is under the hood, i.e., DRM, Trusted Computing, prorietary XML documents...

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  8. Re:A little comparison: by ConceptJunkie · · Score: 5, Funny

    Didn't you know, Microsoft invented INVENTING?

    Actually they acquired the patent rights from Al Gore.

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  9. Re:A little comparison: by buckhead_buddy · · Score: 4, Funny
    Daveschroeder's quoting of WinSupersite:
    "Gates was also giving his competitors a leg up on Microsoft..."
    Triggered a bizarre and humorous mental image after walking my dog outside this gorgeously sunny afternoon.
  10. What? You don't like the XP Teletubbies theme? by HermanAB · · Score: 4, Funny

    I always find the the easiest way to convince people to use the Plain Jane Windows interface, is not patiently explaining that the new look makes it slow, but simply saying: Shall I fix the Teletubbies Look?

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  11. What code? by MisterSquid · · Score: 5, Funny

    [. . .] before they had them fancy html interpreters they just looked at the text and IMAGINED its formatting.

    That's OK, Vicsun. I don't even see the code anymore. I just see blonde, brunette, redhead . . .

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