Longhorn Preview 605
prostoalex writes "News.com has up a preview of Microsoft's current build of Longhorn operating system, from Jim Allchin, Microsoft group vice president. The timing is not coincidental with Apple's Tiger release, as Allchin pointed out some advantages that Microsoft had over Apple's OS: 'High on the list of features are security enhancements, improved desktop searching and organizing, and better methods for laptops to roam from one network to another.'" Update: 04/15 21:24 GMT by Z : Thomashawk wrote in to provide links to less formal looks at the Allchin preview, one at his site, and one at Evan William's site.
Right (Score:5, Funny)
And you'll see all this and more when it's released in 2007.
Honest.
Heh (Score:3, Funny)
'Enhancements'? How can you 'enhance' no security to start with? 0 +0 = 0.
Security... (Score:3, Funny)
Wow! I sure need that, since my OSX installs are all so virus-prone!
Re:Amazing! (Score:5, Funny)
Preinstalled spyware, so you don't have to risk going out onto the internet to find your own.
In other news.. (Score:5, Funny)
It's the same story Microsoft has told for years.. "Yeah, those other guys might have some cool shit, but the stuff we're working on is WAY better. Don't buy their stuff, wait for our new thing to come out. It'll be available Real Soon Now."
Apple will be releasing Mac OS X Ocelot by the time Longhorn hits the market.
fan boys on parade (Score:2, Funny)
Is that a sexual euphemism? (Score:3, Funny)
Y'know, like "to fuck with", "to shag" etc?
I never can tell with MS, after all they have redefined the meaning of so many words and terms; innovation, secure, reliable, scalable etc etc.
Re:Is it worth it? (Score:3, Funny)
By the time Longhorn ships, according to Microsoft chairman Bill Gates, PCs will have 4GHz to 6GHz processors, more than 2GB of memory, at least a terabyte of storage, and graphics accelerators three times more powerful than those offered by ATI and Nvidia today. He says that Longhorn is designed to take advantage of all this muscle, and nowhere is that more evident than in the rich, three-dimensional interface known as Aero.
We'll have much better computers than that by time Longhorn finally ships.Re:Heh (Score:4, Funny)
How about 0+x = x ????
Re:Amazing! (Score:5, Funny)
I thought it was cute, now I know it was prophetic.
From the makers of (Score:3, Funny)
I have to ask which dictionary they are using
Seriously i know marketing people are usualy full of crap , but normaly they try to avoid silly statments that are near out and out lies
Re:Amazing! (Score:0, Funny)
never mind.
Re:Wasn't there a public BETA? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Heh (Score:5, Funny)
Knock knock.
Who's there?
Uhhh... Microsoft Security!
See? It's automatically funny, no matter what the context.
Icon Security (Score:5, Funny)
I think that files with viruses in them show a little icon of you reintsalling the OS, as a portent of the future you might have by opening it. So I guess that's security related. By default it ships with an icon of Balmer doing the installation unless you have a USB camera hooked up, then it automatically detects an install and takes a snap while you're in hour two for best effect!
Who says Microsoft cant innovate.
Re:Amazing! (Score:2, Funny)
Pff, using Windows(*) I can automatically login wirelessly without saving settings.
(*) I do not use Windows but many entry points do and accept my request without authorization :-)
Re:Is it worth it? (Score:1, Funny)
Some of us are heterosexual and do not like all that fruity eyecandy that you precious mac zealots seem to enjoy. So yes, unless I am playing a video game, I do want that graphics adapter just sitting there.
Shades of Blues Brothers (Score:4, Funny)
"We got both kinds of search views. We sort by date OR time!"
Re:Is it worth it? (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Amazing! (Score:5, Funny)
Why do you think it has taken Microsoft so long to come out with Longhorn. Microsoft had to wait for Apple and the Free Software community to come up with enough ideas worth stealing to make Longhorn worth its customers time.
Re:Heh (Score:3, Funny)
Maybe they could get away with saying things like "Now with ten times the security!"
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"Now with 20% more synergy."
Re:Is it worth it? (Score:4, Funny)
Apple - Apple is a hardware company so they want to sell boxes, not software, yet each release of OS X is faster than the previous one. Tiger is expected to continue this trend.
Microsoft is a software company so they want to sell software, not boxes, yet each release of Windows is far slower than the last one.
There's a reason why I can still use a 6 year old mac with the current OS.
Re:Is that a sexual euphemism? (Score:1, Funny)
Wait... (Score:5, Funny)
Microsoft: "We don't have Longhorn ready yet, but Tiger, that OS from that other company, is shipping in 14 days if you want a 99% approximation of our OS that will ship in two years."
Apple: "Mac OS X 10.4 'Tiger': Even Microsoft Says It's Good."
Isn't Rule Number One of advertising never to mention the "leading brand" by name? Sheesh, you'd think M$ would have learned by now.
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Share music files (Score:3, Funny)
For example, a PC with Longhorn might show all the music files together, whether they are on the local PC or another machine on the network.
I'm surprised, this already works on my WinXP machine. The application is named iTunes.
Oh wait...
Re:Good for Longhorn (Score:4, Funny)
Don't we all, mate, don't we all
Re:What did they eat...? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Wow...competition (Score:3, Funny)
Ship more than a year from now. : )
Re:They're not 128x128 (Score:2, Funny)
Sounds nasty. Does it come with a box of Kleenex?
Whats in a Name? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:I want animated program icons (Score:5, Funny)
Dude, you should invest in some anger management classes. Or maybe spend a relaxing weekend debugging your registry and flushing your system of spyware.
Re:Good for Longhorn (Score:3, Funny)
Hey! Active Desktop was great. Before that came along I actually had to start an application to crash my PC.
Nobody expects . . . . (Score:1, Funny)
our chief weapon is ignorance . . . ignorance and FUDs, FUDs and ignorance.... Our two, two chief weapons are ignorance and FUDs
Re:Amazing! (Score:2, Funny)
Animated icons? How about animated filenames? Why should filenames be static? It's bad enough filenames can only have certain characters, that they cannot, for instance, contain paragraph breaks. What if I want a three-paragraph-long filename? And why should they be text-only? What is this, 1980? In the modern era, our filenames should be fully liberated to include markup, images, animation, scripts,
(No, I'm not serious. I don't even like filenames with spaces in them.)
Re:Amazing! (Score:4, Funny)
Makes sense, given the biggest security hole in the entire system is the person using it.