Comments on: Gates offers Longhorn appetizer

Microsoft chair offers hardware makers a taste of the next Windows, but exactly what comes when remains unclear.
Photos: A look at Longhorn

[Thomas, David]

The Art of War (Vaporware)

LMAO ... you have to give kudos for Microsoft for effectively
using something that does not really exist and constantly
changes definitions for three years as a marketing tool.

[Thomas, David]

The Art of War (Vaporware)

LMAO ... you have to give kudos for Microsoft for effectively
using something that does not really exist and constantly
changes definitions for three years as a marketing tool.

Longhorn, a Mac Clone?

Once again the only way to make Windows better is to copy Apple and OS X. No thanks I will stick with my Mac..

[iKenny]

Hehe

And us Mac users get it all a whole 1.5 years before everyone
else :)

Longhorn, a Mac Clone?

Once again the only way to make Windows better is to copy Apple and OS X. No thanks I will stick with my Mac..

[iKenny]

Hehe

And us Mac users get it all a whole 1.5 years before everyone
else :)

[RetiredMidn]

Now they're vaporing hardware

Bill shows off a mockup of small PC that should be possible to
build in a few years. I'm sure that's based on Microsoft's years
of experience in building PC hardware...

[RetiredMidn]

Now they're vaporing hardware

Bill shows off a mockup of small PC that should be possible to
build in a few years. I'm sure that's based on Microsoft's years
of experience in building PC hardware...

[Terry Murphy]

Rudderless

So to summarize. once again, "Longhorn" isn't developing a
single new feature that isn't a pale rip-off of today's Mac OS X.

And even as of today, years after Microsoft announced
Longhorn, they can't put a complete SDK in developers hands for
the "features" being touted for release next year. Its just
astonishing. Even if its just expected at this point that Microsoft
will do nothing more with Longhorn than rip-off Mac OS X, how
can their chief software officer seriously stand up in front of a
crowd of developers with nothing more than a pie-in-the-sky
speech about security and dangle what are now all too familiar
OS features without any real code to put in real developer's
hands to back up Microsoft's endless hyperbole?

Really. What is with these guys? Are they just content to occupy
the bottom of the barrel for any original ideas and
innovation? "Start Something?" How about "Finish Anything..."

[Terry Murphy]

Rudderless

So to summarize. once again, "Longhorn" isn't developing a
single new feature that isn't a pale rip-off of today's Mac OS X.

And even as of today, years after Microsoft announced
Longhorn, they can't put a complete SDK in developers hands for
the "features" being touted for release next year. Its just
astonishing. Even if its just expected at this point that Microsoft
will do nothing more with Longhorn than rip-off Mac OS X, how
can their chief software officer seriously stand up in front of a
crowd of developers with nothing more than a pie-in-the-sky
speech about security and dangle what are now all too familiar
OS features without any real code to put in real developer's
hands to back up Microsoft's endless hyperbole?

Really. What is with these guys? Are they just content to occupy
the bottom of the barrel for any original ideas and
innovation? "Start Something?" How about "Finish Anything..."

[Llib Setag]

Top Secret Pre-release of Longhorn now on the Web...

http://www.apple.com/macosx/newfeatures/

[Andrew J Glina]

Gee... I am swithcing

I thought Tiger was supposed to be remarkable. I found this "feature" funny.


Document Properties

Add important information to your TextEdit documents so Spotlight can better find and organize them.

Gee, impressive organisation features. If you need to add a description to a file then it is you who is organising. Besides, Windows 2000 has this "feature".

How about;


Dictionary Widget

Find definitions by typing all or part of a word, and use the built-in thesaurus to find synonyms, antonyms and more ? no Internet connection required.

Wow.

Firewall Log

Keep a log of all firewall activity, such as blocked sources, blocked destinations and blocked attempts.

It didn't have this "feature" before?


Safe Downloads

Receive an approval alert message when the system or an application attempts to download files whose type or source is not trustworthy.

Err... you are kidding. Didn't Win98SE have this feature?

But wait, theres more...


About This Mac

View the name of the startup disk in the enhanced About This Mac menu ? great if you have multi-drive setups.

Battery System Menu

Easily change power management settings directly from the system menu.

iPhoto Desktop Pictures and Screen Saver

Choose any photo or album from iPhoto as your desktop picture or screen saver using the Desktop & Screen Saver preference panel.

Desktop Pictures

Choose from a collection of stunning new desktop pictures, including a vibrant new default desktop created exclusively for Mac OS X Tiger users.

[Llib Setag]

Top Secret Pre-release of Longhorn now on the Web...

http://www.apple.com/macosx/newfeatures/

[Andrew J Glina]

Gee... I am swithcing

I thought Tiger was supposed to be remarkable. I found this "feature" funny.


Document Properties

Add important information to your TextEdit documents so Spotlight can better find and organize them.

Gee, impressive organisation features. If you need to add a description to a file then it is you who is organising. Besides, Windows 2000 has this "feature".

How about;


Dictionary Widget

Find definitions by typing all or part of a word, and use the built-in thesaurus to find synonyms, antonyms and more ? no Internet connection required.

Wow.

Firewall Log

Keep a log of all firewall activity, such as blocked sources, blocked destinations and blocked attempts.

It didn't have this "feature" before?


Safe Downloads

Receive an approval alert message when the system or an application attempts to download files whose type or source is not trustworthy.

Err... you are kidding. Didn't Win98SE have this feature?

But wait, theres more...


About This Mac

View the name of the startup disk in the enhanced About This Mac menu ? great if you have multi-drive setups.

Battery System Menu

Easily change power management settings directly from the system menu.

iPhoto Desktop Pictures and Screen Saver

Choose any photo or album from iPhoto as your desktop picture or screen saver using the Desktop & Screen Saver preference panel.

Desktop Pictures

Choose from a collection of stunning new desktop pictures, including a vibrant new default desktop created exclusively for Mac OS X Tiger users.

[Llib Setag]

Scared tiny cowboy on his virtual bull...

Citizen Gates is the tiny Marlboro Man riding his virtual bull (ShortHorn) around trying to cover his tracks.
Big Tobacco & Microsoft have many things in common:
Both are obsolete relics of the past "cool age".
Both spew cancer, viruses & cause you to crash & burn.
Both have manipulated the government with their billion dollar lobbyist & power plays.
Both have lied to the Government for years about how "safe" their products are.
Both have dug their tenticles deep into the masses & make it very difficult to go "cold turkey".
Both have done whatever it takes (legally or illegally) to keep their monopolies in power & crush the other guys "butts" thereby snuffing them out & keeping their cash flow going from the little people to the corporate fat cats.
MS & Big Tobacco are both cancerous, nip them in the bud or roll your own.

[Andrew J Glina]

Second Opinion

Actually I think that Apple and IBM are relics. What makes Apple the new kid on the block? Apple had it's time but it's obsession with excessive profit has doomed it.

Bye Bye Apple, Bye Bye
Enjoy your last Hurrah
Because you are doomed to die
Just like the hybrid car

[Llib Setag]

Scared tiny cowboy on his virtual bull...

Citizen Gates is the tiny Marlboro Man riding his virtual bull (ShortHorn) around trying to cover his tracks.
Big Tobacco & Microsoft have many things in common:
Both are obsolete relics of the past "cool age".
Both spew cancer, viruses & cause you to crash & burn.
Both have manipulated the government with their billion dollar lobbyist & power plays.
Both have lied to the Government for years about how "safe" their products are.
Both have dug their tenticles deep into the masses & make it very difficult to go "cold turkey".
Both have done whatever it takes (legally or illegally) to keep their monopolies in power & crush the other guys "butts" thereby snuffing them out & keeping their cash flow going from the little people to the corporate fat cats.
MS & Big Tobacco are both cancerous, nip them in the bud or roll your own.

[Andrew J Glina]

Second Opinion

Actually I think that Apple and IBM are relics. What makes Apple the new kid on the block? Apple had it's time but it's obsession with excessive profit has doomed it.

Bye Bye Apple, Bye Bye
Enjoy your last Hurrah
Because you are doomed to die
Just like the hybrid car

[jimboman78]

"Metro" vs. PDF

This was one of the most interesting parts of the article. PDF seems to have a pretty solid grasp so far on documents. Now the purchase of Marcomedia makes more sense. Clash of the titans, soon!

[Earl Benser]

Never could understand....

.... why it takes a 60 MB Acrobat program to display a 10 KB file. -
other than it's an Adobe product......

[Thomas, David]

Abobe Now

I think Adobe just bought MacroMedia. Even Microsofts money
and power won't make that a fight. PDF versus Metro?

This keeps up will be hearing about another monopoly case. I
think its time for all children, good and bad, to go look up what
the word "monopoly" means.

[jimboman78]

"Metro" vs. PDF

This was one of the most interesting parts of the article. PDF seems to have a pretty solid grasp so far on documents. Now the purchase of Marcomedia makes more sense. Clash of the titans, soon!

[Earl Benser]

Never could understand....

.... why it takes a 60 MB Acrobat program to display a 10 KB file. -
other than it's an Adobe product......

[Thomas, David]

Abobe Now

I think Adobe just bought MacroMedia. Even Microsofts money
and power won't make that a fight. PDF versus Metro?

This keeps up will be hearing about another monopoly case. I
think its time for all children, good and bad, to go look up what
the word "monopoly" means.