Longhorn Troubles: Does Anybody Care?

Hello all,

Microsoft is struggling with it's world-beating OS, Longhorn. Release
date 2007?

http://www.eweek.com/category2/0,4148,1391959,00.asp

Before you go out to raise a glass or two in tribute to poor, pathetic
Microsoft's woes (they're also struggling with what to do with too
much money), I'd like to ask if this is just more of the same
(whatever Microsoft OS ever shipped on time), or whether Microsoft is
losing it. One article mentions the possibility that Micrsoft isn't
very good at selling its own ideas, even the good ones. People don't
use the neat stuff in XP, as it is. Why would they ever want even
more of what they can't use?

Why ever would anyone in a hardware newsgroup care, since we all use
Linux? ;-).

Even if no one cared if they ever saw the four-colored Windows flag
floating across a computer screen again, Linux isn't going to deliver
the desktop sizzle that's needed to keep the pace of development in
desktop hardware above the weekly Rambus thread.

Hot new stuff from ISV's? If someone has a killer app, maybe they
won't wait for Longhorn. A venture capitalist trying to see which way
the wind is blowing, though, might wait to see what Longhorn can
deliver and how the public reacts to it.

The beginning of Bill Gates' worst nightmare (the end of the PC as we
know it) or just another blip in manifest destiny?

RM

"Robert Myers" wrote in message
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Hello all,

Microsoft is struggling with it's world-beating OS, Longhorn. Release
date 2007?

http://www.eweek.com/category2/0,4148,1391959,00.asp

Before you go out to raise a glass or two in tribute to poor, pathetic
Microsoft's woes (they're also struggling with what to do with too
much money), I'd like to ask if this is just more of the same
(whatever Microsoft OS ever shipped on time), or whether Microsoft is
losing it. One article mentions the possibility that Micrsoft isn't
very good at selling its own ideas, even the good ones. People don't
use the neat stuff in XP, as it is. Why would they ever want even
more of what they can't use?

Why ever would anyone in a hardware newsgroup care, since we all use
Linux? ;-).

Even if no one cared if they ever saw the four-colored Windows flag
floating across a computer screen again, Linux isn't going to deliver
the desktop sizzle that's needed to keep the pace of development in
desktop hardware above the weekly Rambus thread.

Hot new stuff from ISV's? If someone has a killer app, maybe they
won't wait for Longhorn. A venture capitalist trying to see which way
the wind is blowing, though, might wait to see what Longhorn can
deliver and how the public reacts to it.

The beginning of Bill Gates' worst nightmare (the end of the PC as we
know it) or just another blip in manifest destiny?

RM

AND this has what to do with comp.sys.intel?

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004 21:28:36 -0600, "Sarak" wrote:


"Robert Myers" wrote in message
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The beginning of Bill Gates' worst nightmare (the end of the PC as we
know it) or just another blip in manifest destiny?


AND this has what to do with comp.sys.intel?


You, ah, need to have it explained to you what constant releases of
increasingly power-hungry versions of Windows has to do with the
market for Intel processors?

A market for increasingly-powerful server chips will continue with or
without a desktop market, but the economics will change dramatically.

RM

Robert Myers wrote :

One article mentions the possibility that
Micrsoft isn't very good at selling its own ideas, even the good
ones. People don't use the neat stuff in XP, as it is. Why would
they ever want even more of what they can't use?

Just wait till you see this new hyped xrated megasupercool DX10 3D GUI.
Forget Doom 3, I'm gonna point & click all day long ... ;-)

Pozdrawiam.
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Like ninjas, true hackers are shrouded in secrecy and mystery.
You may never know -- UNTIL IT'S TOO LATE.

RusH wrote in message . 122.80...
Robert Myers wrote :

One article mentions the possibility that
Micrsoft isn't very good at selling its own ideas, even the good
ones. People don't use the neat stuff in XP, as it is. Why would
they ever want even more of what they can't use?

Just wait till you see this new hyped xrated megasupercool DX10 3D GUI.
Forget Doom 3, I'm gonna point & click all day long ... ;-)

Pozdrawiam.


I think you need to qualify that comment.

Some of us are already playing with Whidbey, XAML, and getting ready
for Yukon. Stored Procs in C# are not a trivial fluff feature. And
what's wrong with DX10? If it's what game developers and video cards
manufacturers are asking for, then why shouldn't if come to pass?

Whether you like Windows, hate Windows or are completely indifferent
to it, MS is just doing what every company does: Trying their best to
out a product.