While Vista Beta 1 is stealing most of the headlines this week, Microsoft also is delivering simultaneously on wednesday to a group of private testers the first beta of its Longhorn Server product.
While Vista Beta 1 is stealing most of the headlines this week, Microsoft also is delivering simultaneously on wednesday to a group of private testers the first beta of its Longhorn Server product.
lol @ the new proprietary Microseft shit. Real men run FreeBSD on their server, not some half assed Microseft product.
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Check out this column by Steven J Vaughn-Nichols:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1841067,00.asp
… it’s hilarious. It gleefully points out Longhorn’s – err – Vista’s complete lack of innovation, and behind-the-times, under the bellcurve “new features”, and huge resource consumption.
In short, Windows Longhorn will be complete, useless crap. And this after over 5 years of development, and untold billions spent on R&D.
All of Longhorn’s “new features” are already implemented in both OSX and Linux, today, right now.
Longhorn will be super resource hungry, requiring as much as a Gig of memory (according to some reports), or a minium of 512 Megs. And it will require at least a 3GHz cpu.
Longhorn’s DRM is a joke. Why buy songs off the internet if you can’t load them on your iPod, or other MP3 player, or burn them to CD, or back them up? The DRM in Longhorn will only screw customers, and protect MS partners.
It amazes me, with MS’s billions spent on R&D, and over 20,000 programmers on staff, that they can’t actually come up with anything interesting or exciting or innovative or benefiting the consumer. MS relies completely on their desktop and Office monopoly, and having their stranglehold on hardware and software vendors.
Please people. Do yourselves a favor. Try something else – OSX, Linux, BSD, whatever.
Longhorn is a joke.
MS is a joke (except as a tenacious monopolist).
🙂 Sometimes I think that they are just stupid. Things like DRM, Trusted Computing etc. can be succesful in USA, but citizens of majority of EU member states will resist, the same with India and Canada and others. I’m happy about that because Longhorn/Vista will be IMHO a great failure for Microsoft. I don’t “wish they die”, I just want them to change their policy. In free world, market (consumers) decide, and they will decide _not_ to buy these operating systems.
Dvorak agrees. For the first time I agree with Dvorak.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1840479,00.asp
“Vista? As in “Hasta la Vista, baby?” That name might be appropriate as a symbolic goodbye since it might be the end of the line for Microsoft’s dominance in the OS business.”
“The new OS is getting zero buzz. Zero. now the name Vista, along with the new Microsoft Vista logo, has made it worse. Could anything be less exciting?”
“THE FUTURE OF DESKTOP COMPUTING: Apple. Vista will open the door to what I believe will be a radical change in the computing landscape. The trends are clear. Once the new Mac OS appears next year it will gravitate toward the existing x86 community much more rapidly than anticipated…”
“Right now, and as much as x86 users do not want to admit it, the Mac OS is already better than Windows in its modern look and feel as well as its functionality. I see too many smart people with Mac laptops nowadays.”
“…it is always possible that Apple doesn’t understand the power play position it’s in and might actually believe that it’s better off somehow keeping its OS in a small niche rather than the big market. If the world changed tomorrow to 85 percent Mac “OS x86″ its laptop sales alone would triple overnight. Apple didn’t put together what many consider the finest in-house industrial design teams in the world to fool around with piddly sales and more redesigns of the iPod.”
“That said, how much more of Steve Jobs can we handle? Do we really want to hear him say “I told you so?” If it gets some excitement back into desktop computing, yes, we do. I think we can take it.”
I think the fact that this Vista Server article has only 1 comment while the Vista Desktop article has 37 speaks volumes about the osnews community – it says that they are solely home users rather than professionals.
You must remember that there are, crude as it sounds, something called proffessional users as well.
Common users actually do a lot of stuff, like develop software (for both server and desktop needs).
The categories – if any – should be professionals and home users.
Why is it that whenever Microsoft releases a new version or new beta version of Windows the whole computer industry gets a collective orgasm????? Jesus Christ…who cares about Vista Smhishta???? Even the Microsoft haters are getting boners from hearing Vista Beta 1 has been released. I know it is very difficult for you all to keep your erections down with Bill Gates’ flaccid penis in your mouths but there is actually a world outside new Windows releases. Go out and get some fresh air. Forget about Vista. No one cares…
😉 i’m amazed I didn’t see the joke mentioned before
That said, it’s little wonder why this thread does not raise many comments. OSNews is for enthusiast, and no enthusiast cares about windows server. All of the enthusiasts who are technically able to manage a server have long switched to linux or *BSD, and thus don’t care much about windows !
DRM and intrusive licensing = off my radar entirely
I don’t care if this new version of windows IS revolutionary, though it isn’t, from what I can see. I won’t have my privacy, my time or my rights trodden on.
Until game X and app Y start requiring it.
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Hey how can i calm down when your mom is licking my balls? Ahh she sure is a bitch to bring trash like you in this world…