New low for Microsoft
Scott B. DeVries
DrFizzix at mash4077.biz
Wed May 5 16:50:09 UTC 2004
The current alpha version of Windows Longhorn that is being released
this week the Microsoft hardware conference is their home / workstation
(client-side) solution. According to articles on www.microsoft-
watch.com, the "recommended" requirements are in the neighborhood of a
4 GHz CPU with 2 GB of RAM and a 256 MB graphics card, which is one of
the main reasons that it'll be 2006 at least before this is released.
There will also be a server version of Longhorn, which is slated for
2007 or 2008 last I heard (similar to Windows XP followed by Win Server
2003). If those hardware requirements are accurate, then God only
knows what kind of a supercomputer you'll need to run the server
version.
Perhaps this will get budget-constrained Windows network admins to
start looking to non-Windows (i.e. penguin-flavor) alternative
operating systems for client PC's.....
Scott B. DeVries
DrFizzix at mash4077.biz
>>>>>> duncan brown wrote >>>>>>>
i'm not going to respond to your entire email bit by bit, as you were
bringing up SUPER-power user and server scenarios) and isn't that what
longhorn is supposed to be for? normal usage? or is longhorn their
server and workstation AND home solution?
> >
Dont know.. Given that I've never heard about other projects by MS,
this makes me believe that longhorn will be their server , workstation
and home solution... But I wonder... why have a server running longhorn
if you need a super computer just to run the OS ? it should be a
supercomputer to run the server.. and the OS should work on any cheap
machine...
If it really is their home solution , then the conspiracy theories kick
in... Maybe m$ and intel are trying to make us spend money ??? Maybe M$
and nvidia or ati??? ;)
I believe that this will be a eternal problem with windows..
considering the way it was developed , it will always grow bigger and
power-hungry... no matter what they do , unless they rewrite windows
from scratch...
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