Swad Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 What do you guys think of Longhorn. I'll have to say, I've been slightly disappointed with what I've seen so far in the RCs. It seems like they've had to cut a lot of the things that were going to make it good, so now it seems only slightly better than XP. Maybe Bill still has a few tricks up his sleeve. And why are they porting everything back to XP, also? Are they actually trying to keep people from upgrading? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ChrisAshtear Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 it depends on which beta you get... its not a RC yet, far from, actually. 4074 is probably the best, it gives you an idea of the cool stuff itll have, and it also has the aurora effects engine in it, although it takes some work to get it working. if you have the winHEC version 50** something, i agree, its {censored}. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted July 5, 2005 Author Share Posted July 5, 2005 Yeah, you're right about the RC thing. I mistyped. Anyway, yeah all the reviews that I read said the WinHEC version sucked. And why have they taken out all the good stuff, as in the new filesystem, etc? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisAshtear Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 i dont know, i think that 4074 was just a proof of concept or something, to show what the final would look like, but it worked fine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hq23t Posted July 5, 2005 Share Posted July 5, 2005 I tought that they scraped the 4000 series. This new one was just stupid. I never got it installed on my pc cuz of the stub loader error(only on VMware). I can't wait for the 1st Beta! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evolver56k Posted July 6, 2005 Share Posted July 6, 2005 I actually followed longhorn pretty religiously up until 4074. I was kinda impressed with how it was coming along but then there was all the announcements that various features were being pushed off and not going to be in longhorn, i just stopped following it. I think the winpe installation is pretty sweet though, its about damn time {censored} stopped being dos based for the first stage of installation. I can say for at least me, i dont like the whole image based copy thing they have going on. I can see how it offers some security? benefits... it really annoyed me. I was pretty amazed though how those guys had enough free time to recompile the system into a regular i386 cd installation. i do give them props. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhLilDoggi Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 5048 owns all of you, good day sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChrisAshtear Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 I think everyone's agreed that 5048 - the winHEC build - is a pile of dog{censored}. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other Posted July 17, 2005 Share Posted July 17, 2005 It is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhLilDoggi Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 I think everyone's agreed that 5048 - the winHEC build - is a pile of dog{censored}. Heh, 4051 is better tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 Why don't they just call it long tooth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 umm, yeah, umm, dunno... Why would they want to call it Longtooth? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
banini_jeque Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 Well, when things get old, sometimes people say that they are getting long in the tooth, so, thats why. I mean I guess microsoft wouldn't want to call it that, but thats not what I said anyway, I said they should call it that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other Posted July 19, 2005 Share Posted July 19, 2005 Why not call it Windows OD Windows "Over Due" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sfotw Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 They had to wait for OS 10.4 to come out. I wonder if they should call it Windows Lion, or Windows Cougar? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cajuncoon Posted July 25, 2005 Share Posted July 25, 2005 Ms is calling it Windows Vista now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhLilDoggi Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 Ms is calling it Windows Vista now And in trouble for it too :wink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swad Posted July 26, 2005 Author Share Posted July 26, 2005 Is it just me or does that name suck? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhLilDoggi Posted July 26, 2005 Share Posted July 26, 2005 Edited the topic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kalisphoenix Posted July 27, 2005 Share Posted July 27, 2005 After being a Microsoft Hater for several dozen years, I've grown to appreciate some of their innovations. I certainly think that their emphasis on backwards compatibility is a real drag -- a nice thing about Apples is that, generally, if the OS can be installed on a given machine, the machine will run the OS well (or at least decently). XP can be installed on machines that really shouldn't be running anything more than Win98, and damn near every machine running Win98 should be running Win95, and so on... another complaint is the wretched security, but unless I'm mistaken there are quite a few app-level kernel hooks in the ol' OS X, too... My real problem is that Windows is made for Grandmothers. I am not a grandmother (last I checked), and would appreciate being able to, say, disable the GUI and use the computer as a service machine. Or at least I would have until I discovered Linux, the BSDs, and OS X. I dunno, I just don't even view Windows as an option anymore. I want OS X on my desktops, Linux on my hobby boxes, FreeBSD on my servers, and OpenBSD on the firewall (even though I loathe Theo De Raadt). And I wouldn't mind having a Zeta machine to tinker with, come to think of it, and MorphOS looks cute although I've heard it's a piece of {censored}. I had a NeXTStation, a few SGI boxes, Solaris running on a short-lived Sun Ultra 10, and I'm ashamed to say that I've even attempted to run GNU/HURD ;-) That got a bit out-of-hand. I guess what I'm trying to say that yeah, Windows is an option... but only as much of an option as IRIX. Which is not going to happen. MS can hold my hand and guide me around the highly-complex and confusing process of clicking "Internet Exploiter" as much as they want (or, more likely, filing a bug report), but I have serious doubts that I'll ever go back to that {censored}. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the hated Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 the new beta 1 of "vista" is just XP with some eye candy which requires you to have a high-end system to get the most out of it . i'm using it now and it runs O.K i suppose Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhLilDoggi Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 the new beta 1 of "vista" is just XP with some eye candy which requires you to have a high-end system to get the most out of it . i'm using it now and it runs O.K i suppose Wtf are you smoking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
other Posted July 30, 2005 Share Posted July 30, 2005 nice reply lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bushnoh Posted August 3, 2005 Share Posted August 3, 2005 and osx 10.4 wasn't 10,3 warmed over, same OS with the addition of widgets, Ooohhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhLilDoggi Posted August 10, 2005 Share Posted August 10, 2005 and osx 10.4 wasn't 10,3 warmed over, same OS with the addition of widgets, Ooohhhh Windows has widgets too! Ooohhhh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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