Thread: Pics of Microsofts new OS, LongHorn XP

http://picdump.dhs.org/gallery/album68

im sure youll be amused by this, WHY ARE THEY SO DETERMINED TO MAKE THE LOOK MORE KIDDISH than it already is! i mean, your running a professional buisness, but you are running a kiddish looking os? i mean come on, LongHorn is (i admit) a cool name, Microsoft Longhorn XP, but the look is even more kiddish. but there are some things that just plainly look cool, like the big clock to the right side!

well i have windows 98, and the most updated windows im gonna get is XP, ONLY because it comes with the new computer im getting!

What's the point of a new OS so soon after XP and .NET? What market is this thing supposed to target? 2000/XP Professional already rule the business world and 2000 Server and soon to be .NET will run the servers. XP Home and 9x are all over the standard user market....what is this supposed to target? Personally I think it's really really a HUGE waste of time unless they allow near full customization of the user interface, THEN I could see it as a target for businesses. But otherwise, it's a lame attempt to make more money.

why isnt my sig showing?

>>but you are running a kiddish looking os?
Personally, I don't care how it starts out looking, its going to be customisable, so whats the problem.

All I want is a stable machine that

- doesn't need me to buy more HD space everytime I want to upgrade the software
- doesn't need rebooting after I changed the smallest setting
- doesn't have an OS that eats RAM like there's no tomorrow
- will run all my software (games and apps) without complaining about some video driver that's more than 2 days old and is therefore out of date.
- will actually give you error messages that mean something useful, instead of simply dumping core memory.
- doesn't need to be patched every 30 seconds

damn, I could go on, but this is turning into a sarcastic rant, and that wasn't my original intention.

I second that face_master.

I swap around a printer, mp3 player, a digital camera back and forth regularly due to lack of ports on the family pc.

Plays a sound and notices when hardware is unplugged, and then when hardware gets plugged in again.

Unplug it, plug the new one in, you're ready to go.

its called plug and play.

and as far as i can remember, it does the same thing with me, and my 98. i plug in a webcam, its ready to use.

see when i got my computer, it was TOP-NOTCH technology in 95, which is when i got it. so it came with windows 95 and a few microsoft apps. before that, i only though of macs as a more user-frienly machine than an actual OS, and i though UNIX (due to the way the name sounds) felt to me like an old metal cased computer from something like the stone age! i had no clue it was an OS, so i though Microsoft was da bomb!

but now my options are open, and i plan on getting a dual boot, ill do all my programming on the latest mandrake linux (im getting mandrake due to i cant find red-hat or slackware, or any others on any shelves, and i dont buy online) to do all my programming, and ill use winXP to do my gaming and animation (ie. Macromedia Flash MX)


LongHorn, now that i think about it, sounds like it should be in the western age. but i think theyre tyring to attract more western people (like, old western people, like my uncle mel) into thinking that Longhorn (and having a bulls head for a logo) will get them into it. thats what i think. it still has a sucky name come to think of it.