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New MS Shell Will Not Be In Longhorn

Posted by Zonk on from the so-close dept.

sootman writes "Remember that new Windows shell? Looks like it'll be yet another technology that won't make it into Longhorn. 'It will take three to five years to fully develop and deliver,' said Microsoft Senior Vice President Bob Muglia this week at Tech Ed 2005. However, it's not dead yet--despite not shipping in Longhorn in 2006 or Longhorn Server in 2007, the article says 'Exchange 12 administration functions will be built atop Monad, which would enable users to do everything from the command line that can be done from the graphical interface.'"

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  1. what *are* they putting in Longhorn? by EvilStein · · Score: 0, Troll

    After hearing about all of these features that Longhorn *won't* have.. have we seen a confirmed list of stuff that it *will* have?

    Right now, it's beginning to look like nothing more than Windows XP Service Pack 3, just with a new name and bigger price tag to keep the stockholding twatwaffles happy.

  2. Re:Yawn... by errxn · · Score: 0, Troll

    And, predictably, I get modded Troll for pointing it out...SSDD...Ho hum...

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  3. Re:Inquiring minds want to know! by vsprintf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Right click in the console window, select Mark, highlight some text. now you can paste it whereever you want. To paste text in the console, right click -> paste.

    You can't paste something copied from somewhere else in the Windows world (clipboard), or vice versa. Right-click is natural for *nix users, it's the first thing tried to paste. I haven't tried it since Win98, nor do I want to. Next.

  4. Re:Inquiring minds want to know! by vsprintf · · Score: 0, Troll

    Yes you can, and you always have been able to. Try it and see. Unless you're talking about bitmaps, in which case the problem isn't in Windows, but in the chair sitting in front of it.

    Thank you for wasting more than a half hour of my life. I reconnected a Win98 box that was on its way out, opened notepad and the MS-DOS Prompt. I typed and selected text in notepad with ^C then tried pasting it into the DOS Prompt with right-click and ^V: nothing. Right-clicking in the prompt window does nothing. I did ^V in notepad, and the text was copied in again. I'm not responding to any more bogus "Oh, yeah, it works, try it" trolls.