Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 05:38:42PM +0000, Ken Gilmour wrote:
> 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!!
>
> 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:
> >> 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?
I guess you have to have gone through a truly unhealthy relationship to
understand my point of view. Sometimes your whole world can be
something that's bad for you :-)
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