longhorn, will you get it?

[techieMoe]

In reply to the origanal question, I think the only way I'll be getting longhorn is if:

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c ) It is released under the GPL

Haha. Is that a nice way of saying "when pigs fly?"

[loft306]

That's quite possible, but I can't help but see this as another excuse to push back new features that they could have (and should have) finished working on several years ago. The way I see it is Microsoft has dragged their feet with this "new Windows" to the point where people are looking elsewhere, so they're releasing an unfinished project in order to try and cement their stranglehold on the market again.

Is this not what happens everytime with MS they promise the world then deliver something else and try to add featerues as they go or have thoes value added features that pop up outta nowhere just to annoy you! Is this not thair buisness model? Why did we expect anything revolutionary? We should of expected it from a company that makes most of it's money from tech support! And still charges for it's OS.

[zba78]

In reply to the origanal question, I think the only way I'll be getting longhorn is if:

c ) It is released under the GPL

As for me, as long as games continue to work with xp i've no need to upgrade. In fact I've been considering downgrading (or upgrading depending which way you look at it) to win2000 because I always remember win2k as being more stable and less resource hungry then XP.

[oz]

Will I upgrade? Not a chance!

[loft306]

As for me, as long as games continue to work with xp i've no need to upgrade. In fact I've been considering downgrading (or upgrading depending which way you look at it) to win2000 because I always remember win2k as being more stable and less resource hungry then XP.

heh yeah i i have win98 upgraded to se(never reinstalled) as my last win os but as of late i also run w2k for its stability and 3d CAD's but neither of thease is even on the lan they are stand alone boxen

[carlosponti]

i have been phasing windows out slowly over time as it is so maybe this is the version i finally quit using windows entirely at. i have been wanting to get away from windows for some time. longhorn has been a complete rewrite however it still is a M$ product and will most likely cost a fortune for the ametuer edition and double a fortune for the more than ametuer version.

[bigtomrodney]

Someone gave me a beta of longhorn about a month ago, still haven't been bothered installing it. Happy with SuSE for everything but Games, but I may just get an ethernet adapter for my PS2 to make it up.

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

Will I upgrade? Not a chance!

or is that downgrade?

[Curlydave]

I'll wait to see it. I'm surprised that some of you are so sure already...

[Vergil83]

I'll wait to see it. I'm surprised that some of you are so sure already...

well there are not just rumors, they are what MS is saying will be in Longhorn