Comments on: Microsoft: Longhorn beta unlikely this year

Efforts to shore up security on Windows XP pull developers away from the update effort, setting back the release, and probably causing some planned features to be cut.

[diabulos]

Can MS deliver or is it a dream?

XP is showing its age even against OSX and some versions of Linux. Apple can do a lot for OSX from here to 2006, and so can red Hat or any other Linux company. If MS fails to make the computing experience better people will move to other options. Rigth now there is no alternativer on the PC front to ilife from Apple. It is still a pain to cut a CD on XP, as well as work video (compared to Apple products and some Linux offerings) tunes has saved the day on the MP3 front (together with the Ipod) and the DVd making software out there is sad in comparison to Idvd. C'mon MS, XP is becoming an Old OS while the others keep getting better! 3 to 4 years is a huge gap, and you may be wishing for too much, another Cairo? maybe

[PHYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART VON D]

XP SP2 VERY HELPFUL ON "WEAK SYSTEM"

1>ALTHOUGH FIRST SP2 WAS WITHDRAWN & INCORPORATED INTO SP1?, 6 MONTHS AGO.LATEST SP2(BETA), AT 280MB, IS REAL HELPER. GET IT SOON IF YOUR SYSTEM IS UNSTABLE. THERE ARE NO GLITCHES. 2>ARTICLE IS FIRST WORD ON TS "BLACKCOMB" I HAVE SEEN IN THREE YEARS.3> MICROSOFT WILL PROBABLY NEVER ALLOW QUALITY VOICE RECOGNITION FOR PRIVATE PC, TOO TELEPHONE COMPANY LIKE PUBLIC SURVEILANCE PROBLEMS(CAN O' WORMS).4> WILLIAM GATES IS WAITING OUT SATA-2 & HDTV PRODUCTS INTRODUCTION, BEFORE INTRODUCING -=THE=- NEW PRODUCT LEVEL:"LONGHORN".HERE,CIRCA 1985 SCIENCE DEVELOPEMENTS BECOME STANDARDIZED WITH HD DIGITAL/SATELITE/SET TOP BOX/ XMP 24 NOW GOES TOWARD 64 BIT DEVELOPEMENT IN BIT LAYER 40-48(MIGHT SAY XMP 48)WITH UPCOMING SSE DEVELOPEMENT/ MORE ADRESS TO QUANTIFY AS TO SPECFIC FUNCTION, THEN WHEN "WE"(DEVELOPERS) WRITE IT & INTRODUCE IT INTO SYSTEM, BILL STEALS IT(NEW CODE) & MARKETS IT.VOLA- "LONGHORN".SO IT WILL BE AWHILE TO GET GOING FROM HERE FOR PC ARCHITECTURE CODE TO BE STANDARDIZED.AFTER THAT? LAYER 48-56 BIT DEVELOPEMENT(BIG SERVER/SALES STUFF?)AND THATS ALL FOLKS....SIGNED:PHYSICIAN THOMAS STEWART VON DRASHEK M.D.

[smellcoffee]

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Nice that were getting our money worth from deciding to buy
into Microsoft's subscription scheme / scam. < sarcasm >

Bunch of LS if you ask me.

[zeeone]

Hot Diggty Dog

You bet, let's watch Linux grow and work better, go Apple OSX! There is a reason Uncle Billy, that IBM dumped you along time ago, it did not work then and it still does not work NOW! I only have one Winblows machine left, hummmm maybe I will replace it with an Imac, better yet a power Mac G5! Yes Sir Uncle Billy, no more blue screens of death for me, Trusted Computing anyone?