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Microsoft's Longhorn
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I actually know the guy respsonsible for the development of Longhorn. He was just hired by Billy-Boy himself. He inherited most of the specs and issues. The guy was my boss for 3 years at another company.
Anyway, he walked in on his first day and said to a Development group of 100's of people "Hi. I'm here to clean the windows." Crickets. Not a word in response. I think they're under the delusion that their product is solid somehow, even though my friend was hired to "clean house."
Anyway, he walked in on his first day and said to a Development group of 100's of people "Hi. I'm here to clean the windows." Crickets. Not a word in response. I think they're under the delusion that their product is solid somehow, even though my friend was hired to "clean house."
Have you guys read this ??
Quote: "The Longhorn machine, although slightly better than Windows XP at displaying graphics-heavy Windows, failed to respond when Allchin also tried to bring up another graphics-intensive application, the popular first person shooter game Quake.
Allchin said that the PC was slow and Microsoft said that the demo worked fine in trials."
Quote: "The Longhorn machine, although slightly better than Windows XP at displaying graphics-heavy Windows, failed to respond when Allchin also tried to bring up another graphics-intensive application, the popular first person shooter game Quake.
Allchin said that the PC was slow and Microsoft said that the demo worked fine in trials."
Still, in a year or two, the REQUIRED system specs just to run an OS won't be that high. Maybe they meant, Longhorn will be installed on computers bearing these probable specs.
Right now i have 160 Gigs of hard drive space
and 1280mb RAm.
next time i upgrade i will get a minimum of another 250gig hard drive
and 2 more gigs of ram.
and this is prob within a year
so in 3-4 years.
having over a TB of hard drive space. is realistic
and 3-4 gigs of ram. aswell
and 1280mb RAm.
next time i upgrade i will get a minimum of another 250gig hard drive
and 2 more gigs of ram.
and this is prob within a year
so in 3-4 years.
having over a TB of hard drive space. is realistic
and 3-4 gigs of ram. aswell
Chaszmyr said:No... If they were really good at copying then their copies wouldn't turn out worse than the original
"Through a scanner, darkly."
By the way... this might be a really dumb question, so feel free to slap me around a bit... if this OS requires 4-6 GHz, and hardware that will probably just start showing up in 2 years, well... how are they developing Longhorn, then? ... using a dual duce G5? How are they previewing/testing it?
And M$ goofed too!!
Apparently, they compared longhorn to XP, with only slight differences in performance.
And in the demo the HP PC running Longhorn refused to run Quake!!
the VP presenting said that is ran fine earlier and it must just be a slow PC.
Reuters link
Maybe a score to settle with HP over iTunes/iPod?
this brings back fond memories of Gates demo'ing the win98 BSOD.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
M.
edit: added link
edit2: MacsRgr8 beat me to it in post #34
Apparently, they compared longhorn to XP, with only slight differences in performance.
And in the demo the HP PC running Longhorn refused to run Quake!!
the VP presenting said that is ran fine earlier and it must just be a slow PC.
Reuters link
Maybe a score to settle with HP over iTunes/iPod?
this brings back fond memories of Gates demo'ing the win98 BSOD.
HAHAHAHAHAHA
M.
edit: added link
edit2: MacsRgr8 beat me to it in post #34
Actually, I was talking about three years from now, 2007--Moore's law says the processor will double every 18 months (though technically this was number of transistors, not CPU speed).blueBomber said:
If you look at the Apple Pro desktops from three years ago, they shipped with 60 GB hard drives. Now they ship with 160 GB HDs, nearly tripling. So in 2007 we'll be talking about 400-500 GB HDs standard--not quite there. It will probably take until 2008 or 2009 before we start seeing standard Terabyte HDs.
trilogic said:
Ding, ding, ding...we have a winner!
This is why Microsoft has such great support from hardware and software makers alike. When you bloat a product, it forces everyone to buy new stuff to have the latest and ...cough... greatest.
adamfilip said:
but you are a power user.
these are system requirements, like the 256mb of ram needed for osx. and we all know how crappy os x runs on 256mb of ram
What don't resemble OSX to people nowadays. Sheesh. I cant wait for longhorn, i love technology. Those last 2 photos look pretty cool to me. But Windows has never really been about cool, it's been about productivity. Think about that.
Consider how buggy
WinXP is now at, how many Gb is the install? 2Gb? IF their "operating system" needs 1Tb, how many bugs will that be? hmmmm.
Longhorn. Isn't that supposed to be the one that documents everything you do and has all the security stuff with the lightsabers and the vwwing, vwinng, *vwwing". (Sorry, Professor Frink relapse).
So maybe it needs 1tB to store every keystroke you ever do, every move on the internet, etc. and sends it all back to M$. Don't worry though, every month, M$ will go over your hard drive and rid all files that don't directly pertain to running Office.
Have fun suckahs!!
WinXP is now at, how many Gb is the install? 2Gb? IF their "operating system" needs 1Tb, how many bugs will that be? hmmmm.
Longhorn. Isn't that supposed to be the one that documents everything you do and has all the security stuff with the lightsabers and the vwwing, vwinng, *vwwing". (Sorry, Professor Frink relapse).
So maybe it needs 1tB to store every keystroke you ever do, every move on the internet, etc. and sends it all back to M$. Don't worry though, every month, M$ will go over your hard drive and rid all files that don't directly pertain to running Office.
Have fun suckahs!!
Xnet said:
Oh.
So, add to those system requirements "a 35-inch monitor so you'll be able to see what you're working on past that monstrous dock thing."
it still looks like windows.i've never understood the point of the start menu. infact i didn't even notice it was missing when i switched. i would have liked to see microsoft start from scratch with the interface and make something new and different but i guess with so many customers a lot of them wouldn't be able to cope.Xnet said:
Me too, i'm kinda excited.
Low said:wow, actually im quite excited to use longhorn. of course those requirements are bogus...kind of nice to see the future of what MS has...im all for it.