Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn
Ive tried the alpha version and it was so bad, on 512MB of RAM, a 60GB empty HDD (Apart form the OS of course) and 1.5GHz processor it would take about 6 minutes to open the start menu or a window such as "My Computer" using longhorn milestone 5 - didnt look too shabby though - but then, neither do girls with STDs!!
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Ken Gilmour
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Replying to the message sent by Ray on Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:18:56 -0600, received at 17:35:18 on 30/10/2003. Ray wrote:
>On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:41, Tom wrote:
>> Has anybody else been surprised by the amount of good press MS is
>> getting this week over longhorn? I think people are looking at the
>> Mac OS9 -> OSX total rewrite and projecting wishes for MS to do
>> something as drastic.
>>
>> It's like watching somebody involved in a bad marriage: I'll just
>> stick by him/her, they're bound to change. It's worth it, if only
>> for the kids.
>>
>> It's always interesting to watch 'em finally wake up.
>
>the way i was looking at it is longhorn must be horrible if the
>marketing has to get this much of a running start on reviews before
>the actual scheduled release(was it 2006?). if you heard there was a
>movie/game/tech that had marketing running for 3 years before
>release, wouldn't that be a sign of major suckage to you too?
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