Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 27th Jul 2005 19:09 UTC
Today, Microsoft released the first beta of Windows Vista. PC Mag reviews it. "After several years of waiting to see the successor to Windows XP, code-named Longhorn, we've finally gotten our hands on Beta 1 of what now will be called Windows Vista." They also have 40 screenshots. Elsewhere, MS has announced the official names for Avalon and Indigo.
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2005-07-14
Heck yeah man we are scared. Microsoft might do something right for once (which is a good thing BTW). But then I look at the sheer momentum of the open source desktop. By the time Vista (contrary to my first impressions, that has a nice ring to it... Vista...) releases open source desktops will have all the features Vista has and more.
The reason linux is not more popular now is application support. Try going to launch.com and playing some videos for example. And I don't want to hear about the mplayer plug-in for mozilla. Until gstreamer is stable and I can use dmix by default to play as many damn sounds as I feel the need to through alsa (see version 1.0.9rc2+) then linux just can't make it.
It's all about the applications, and linux/OSS is making huge steps in that arena, but we are not completely there. It's comming and nothing can stop it.