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New Longhorn Screenshots And Schedule

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. Whatever by halcyon1234 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Release the damn thing or don't release it. I don't care. I'll just keep using Win98SE. It sucks too, but at least it works.

  2. "Big beta"..... by RootsLINUX · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why not just call it a gamma release? Or do they not know that the greek alphabet has more than two letters? Hell, they might as well make a release of Longhorn for all 24 greek letters, seeing as it doesn't seem like they plan on finishing the O/S anytime soon.

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  3. That screenshot looks horrable. by zulux · · Score: 0, Troll


    Sure it may test will with the little old ladies in the focus group.

    Th color scheme looks good - for a online gay porn shop

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  4. Re:A little comparison: by David+Horn · · Score: 0, Troll

    If you paid more attention instead of just shooting your mouth off, you'd have noticed that Microsoft came up with the searching idea first and Apple stole it off them.

    Don't you remember the ads they put up about it last year? Apple are in it to make money, and they'll do that by whatever slimy tricks they can think of.

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  5. The Guardian of Proprietary Software by rinkjustice · · Score: 0, Troll

    XP Pro is hilarious. It forbade me from downloading the GIMP windows version, as well as a diagnostic tool recommended by a fellow Slashdotter. Why? Because they are open source apps. I realised there is a thin yellow strip at the top of the browser (I just installed XP the other day, so I'm still learning) that I have to click on to override the default security and actually download what I want.

    I assume Longhorn will continue this prejudice against open source development.