New low for Microsoft

[duncan brown]

Scott B. DeVries said:
> 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.

what's funny is that bill has been quoted as saying that hardware should
be free, but software should cost you.  maybe what he's really saying is
that the $20,000 computer you're going to buy in 2006 with longhorn will
only cost $400 to build, the rest is to go to microsoft.  not like you'd
ever be able to find out, since you can't buy a computer without ms on it
=]

THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE OVER FOR REAL!

> 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.

so, really longhorn is just the kernel of ms products, there's probably
going to be bells and whistles on the consumer version that'll require DX
10 just to get things going on the desktop.

> 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.....

perhaps it'll get everyone looking for non-windows.  (not like they're not
already, but most people are scared of linux)

-d

>
>>>>>>> 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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