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Windows 'Longhorn' To Succeed XP?

By Nate Mook, BetaNews

July 24, 2001, 7:03 PM

In a surprise change to its Windows strategy, Microsoft is considering pushing back the release of Blackcomb, and instead following up Windows XP with an interim operating system currently dubbed 'Longhorn'. First reported by eWeek, Longhorn will not contain the .NET-centric core the software giant had planned for the next version of Windows. Blackcomb was initially slated for a late 2002 release, but Microsoft officials now concede even Longhorn may not hit that mark.

It is unclear what will become of Blackcomb, which is currently in early stages of alpha testing, or why a decision was made to postpone its release. Although, Microsoft Vice President Jim Allchin told eWeek the decision had nothing to do with the ongoing antitrust case, suggesting .NET simply may not have been ready.

With Windows XP set to complete beta testing next month, Microsoft is likely to clue in testers to the future of Windows at that point. If the software giant has indeed settled on a more modest upgrade to Windows XP, chances are that all current testers will be asked to participate in the new Longhorn beta as well.

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By Patrick102483

edited Jan 4, 2008 - 6:11 PM

Windows users should not make judgments about linux until they have tried a linux based distro and vice versa. I have used both and personally prefer linux. I will not say linux is better, but I will say it is just as easy. I have used linux for a few months now and have never compiled a program, much less a kernel. Can any of you windows users install, use, and uninstall a good application, such as a 3d accelerated game, without a restart or web browser? If you want to bash linux at least try a live cd of a distro. You can request a *buntu live cd from ubuntu.com. You can also make a live cd for ubuntu, PClinuxOS (http://www.pclinuxos.com/), or another user friendly operating system. Also Linux allows better customization. If I use windows I can use the pre-installed themes or I can patch my OS and download themes loaded with viruses from the internet. If I use linux I can use a large number of themes from Gnome-look or Kde-look. Gnome, KDE, XFCE, Fluxbox, or whatever. I cant decide. I don't need to, they are all FREE. I could try them all! Productivity is nothing of an issue at all. I have a full office suite pre-installed. There are better apps for X11 also. Ever tried Gnomebaker? Also if you don't like anything it can be changed. Linux is FREE, not just money wise, but also it is free as in you can change anything you don't like. Try it and you will see. Oh one more thing, I brush my teeth twice a day.

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By Compdoc

posted Jul 28, 2001 - 10:04 AM

Yes, push your communism LinSux geeks. I have met several LinSux fans (fanatic's) and if I may take a moment of everyone's time, I will describe them in detail.......

The typical LinSux user is likened to the star of "That's Pat" the androgynous freak that graced the TV Screens of people worldwide on the famed Saturday Night Live. If you all remember, Pat had glasses 4 inches thick, a freakish looking afro type hairstyle and pants pulled up to it's chest/breast? Then there was the laugh, that irritatingly wonderful laugh (Hnnnn hnnnn hnnnn hnnnn) that was unforgetable! Pat was most likely the result of a catastrophic failure when Linus first attempted to splice LinSux code with a human gene! LOL! The few LinSux freaks that I have had the extreme displeasure to meet have the following characteristics:

1) Green Teeth
2) Bad Breath (bad enough to knock a buzzard off a dead carcass)
3) Greasy Hair
4) Grimy Fingernails (from months of typing with spooge residue on KB)
5) Body Odor (see # 2)
6) Coke Bottle Glasses (see # 4) LOL
7) Drives a Renault Le Car
8) Stained Coffee Mug with screenprint of Pat
9) Ashtray piled with butts to the ceiling
10) Used Dockers from Salvation Army
11) Autographed Framed Picture of Chairman Mao next to 486 PC
12) Stained I Love Pat T-Shirt
13) Worn Pocket Protector (see # 12)
14) Oops I pooped my pants. LOL !!!!!
15) 5 year old snot hanging from left nostril

Etc, Etc, Etc..........

Hnnnn hnnnn hnnnn hnnnn

LinSux needs a catch phrase BAD so I have one for you.....

"How much time do you want to blow today?" Compiling you kernel......

An idea for an all LinSux newspaper "The Daily Compile"

I could go on, but I am already bored even responding to such a pathetic bunch of hideously deforemed mongoloids. Just STFU and go compile your kernel.

Later.......

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By xabbu

posted Mar 6, 2003 - 2:08 PM

food for thought... if you have a critical system say a life support system.. and you have a choice of using windows or a *nix based os which would you choose.. if you want to get a blue screen of death "literally" go ahead and choose windows.. and i have the beta of .net server 2003 it sucks.. it is full of exploitable code, and i doubt MS will patch all of it before it is released.. so if you choose to use a MS server prepare to get you butt handed to you within a week of that server going live. later.

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By Von Himpfendinckz

posted Jul 30, 2001 - 1:51 PM

Hi Microsux freak
what's all that imbicil crap about??? You really don't know how a Linsux freak looks you just hit the target way ahead. You see kid, I'm a linsux user, but I also use that sh..prog named windows, and I'm a longhaired teeth brushing hard rock freak, and the only thing who stinx here is you with all your craptalk, the only reason why you come up with such an amazing bunch of craptalk, is that you don't have the brain, to use a brilliant system like Linux and last but not least you don't get a more stable system than Linux.

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By xwtx

posted Jul 29, 2001 - 8:02 PM

that wasnt too funny champ - but i am sick of the typical linux user's anti MS rant.

sites like slashdot and the register continually bash on microsoft but then all the register does is post MS news... i dont get it. if i dont like something, i stay away from it if possible.

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By latez

posted Jul 29, 2001 - 4:17 PM

You know finally someone with a clue showed up on betanews. The sad truth is that all those linux fanatics are just a pain in the ass, trying to over throw the software world with there piece of s*** rhetoric of we will make a better OS a faster OS a cleaner coded OS and mostly an easier to use OS!, it seems to me like communists overthrowing the russian monarchy. And lets not forget what happened there, about a 100 years of oppression. The simple fact is until linux becomes a much better OS and by that I mean that it wont be absolutely dire to compile your kernel every few weeks or so with the latest ****ing bug you will find in it and believe me there's one discovered every second, and becomes a pleasure to install as well it being an OS even a 4th grader can use then linux will be just a GNU alternative for the truly bored and annoying. Dont get me wrong I use BSD for work related projects simply for the fact that they are much better then any MS os when it comes to being a SQL server or Web Server ect.. but at home I am proud to run my W2k SP2 , you know why? because I dont like to sit down with a pack of cigarettes and make menuconfig for hours at a time, I have better things to do with MY time.

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By jasonc

posted Jul 30, 2001 - 8:19 AM

Amen

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By bootup

posted Jul 28, 2001 - 9:08 PM

You have isssssuses!

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By Squareball

posted Jul 28, 2001 - 9:06 AM

There is a solution... DON'T BUY IT!

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By LooseChanj

posted Jul 26, 2001 - 8:40 PM

The beta 3 versions of the clients are being released as retail products, but the development of XP/2002 goes on. I was already expecting another client release when the servers go gold, and I have a feeling this is exactly what "Longhorn" is.

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By Hick

posted Jul 26, 2001 - 3:48 PM

Well it is good that no Windows will come out in 2002, need to take a break from all the releasing :D.

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By bootup

posted Jul 25, 2001 - 12:23 PM

I can hear B_org's Longturd speech now... "Longturd represents a milestone in M$ history. It is a better, more reliable, stable, prettier, sweeter and it is a much rounder turd than we have ever squeezed out in the past. As you know in the past, every single build digit of "enhancement" we make to our Turd's will cost you $1.00 each. Like in or predecessors Windows 2000 build 2195 and XP build 2505, there is $310 worth of "upgrades" there. What we are truly happy for this time, is that with Longturd (did I mention how wonderful this turd is?) is only build # 2590, but we will now make each build number cost to YOU $100 each and I can assure you, no better turd can be gotten, even from us.

We know we are not Linux and we continue to bad mouth, attack and even steal as much FreeBSD source code as we can get away with. After all, the first word is "FREE" and we are getting there, TCP/IP stack, by stack. But we won't let you down this time and this time we [pr0ml53]! (spelling changed in the word [promise] for legal reasons). I now ORDER you to run out and buy this "upgrade" and some day soon, we will have a real turd. Not just another "upgrade" to fill our pockets and screw you over, but something you can really be happy with and call Linux, like I always pr0ml53d (again, changed blah, blah.)... Now GO! buy, buy, buy, I B_org have spoken!"

(c) 2001 Bootup. All rights reserved. Any unauthorized translation, exportation, importation is a violation of applicable laws.

[I need to protect my work so B_org doesn't steal my speech!]

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By TheTrueArgon

posted Jul 28, 2001 - 9:19 AM

You can't steal FreeBSD source code. That's the point of FreeBSD and the BSD license.

Argon,
A proud penguin user.

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By Me2You

posted Jul 25, 2001 - 5:22 AM

Apparently part of the new "easier updates" feature is a process that runs from Windows bootup, called loadqm.exe ("QMgr Loader" / "background queue manager"), and takes a nice 5 MB bite of ram! Luckily this thing (ms spyware? lol) can be prevented from loading by deleting its entry in the run section of the registry.

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By cambie

posted Jul 24, 2001 - 7:21 PM

woohooo, longhorns rule!!!!

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By Baggio

posted Jul 27, 2001 - 5:35 PM

You'd have thought Microsoft would have picked a more engaging codename -- something that inspires confidence, like Aggie.

/Ryan

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By wnowak1

posted Jul 24, 2001 - 8:05 PM

Will this next OS require that we travel in person to Bill Gates and show him our receipt and pull his ding dong??

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By chris_kabuki

posted Jul 24, 2001 - 8:14 PM

Only if that's what you get your kicks out of doing.
Yes, a new OS is in the 'works', let the whinging and complaining begin.

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By mbgold

posted Jul 27, 2001 - 10:14 AM

Yes, really! Will all you folks stop complaining about Microsoft's OS's. I think they've been doing a pretty decent job lately. Win 2000 was great. I only have 2 complaints: activation, and the cost of the OS. (Although I don't really know how much it costs to make one... I would have to see that info to judge for certain.)

And I'd love Linux if it came even close to being what Windows is. But, it sucks for most uses. (And, I'm a computer guy.)

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By cyberfly

posted Sep 6, 2001 - 7:04 PM

erm, well i think you have forgotten the fact that the OS sold retail and OEm mainly is what? Windows, making it widely distrubuted, and available with every home/work pc or laptop, that would explain the reason why MS gets a head start. Then, you need to consider why people like Linux, maybe mecause a 19-yr old kid made it as a hobby of his, and not only that, he gave out the source, for free. Now, what do you see.. you see offices, servers and more and more home pc's using Linux.
I do however support windows 2000, it is so far a true change in stability and security from previous version of windows. XP i expect to be no better, apart from minor bits and bobs.

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By brandonjb

posted Jul 24, 2001 - 8:11 PM

I guarantee that will stop piracy. Hell even legit purchases. But oh wait thats where they are headed with WPA!

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By cyberfly

posted Sep 6, 2001 - 7:10 PM

As you probably know, WPA has been defeated numerous amounts of times, a simple edit in the registry, a call at regwiz, reboot, and XP won't call home no more. Plus, even so, microsoft is pulling back, they have now allowed 6 hardware parts, for pc's with NIC's that is. for non-NIC's, it's still 4, as far as i know. More changes to come. And they are not in favour for Microsoft.
So, which goes to say, what many thought would be the end of piracy, is actually just the beginning.

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By takerm

posted Sep 4, 2001 - 9:12 AM

It is just amazing that the amount of people that actually reply to these things is so huge. Windows is good, it has its flaws eg bsods and the like. In saying that, linux also has its good points and its bad points, good points include stability, and keeping lazy minded people away from it, and he bad points include hardware compatibility, steep learning curve. I am both a linux and windows user. Both of these op systems are constantly being updated to keep up with technology, the biggest difference in them is the fact that windows has a constant amount of people paid!!!! to keep it up to date and stable. Linux is open source which means every man and his dog can work on it if they know anything about programming, this also belies that there arent the amount of people out there paid to keep it up to date that windows has, the people who keep on working on linux do so as most of them despise the monopoly that is microsoft. Linux has its good points and is slowly coming up to speed with most users these days albeit the learning curve is still hard it is getting easier. So quit your whinging and whining as im sure you have better things to do. They both have their good and bad points so get over it, if you dont like it dont use it.

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By proXzee

posted Aug 15, 2003 - 12:17 PM

Thank god, someone knows what their talking about

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