longhorn, will you get it?

[d38dm8nw81k1ng]

i'm curious to see how many people want to get longhorn. to be honest i've got no plans to get it. i think it will be based on the NT line still (for "backwards compatibility"). even if it is a whole new windows architecture which threatens to destroy backwards compatibility to older versions, effectively forcing us to upgrade, then i will stop using windows altogether and rely on linux for my computing needs.

[nalg0rath]

I will absolutly not use Longhorn, I might have to use it if my teacher complains about using SLAX in school. According to what I have read about it so far it is just plain old Windows XP (that actually is Windows 3.1) with a new look.

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[fingal]

No - I won't use it: definitely not interested.

[techieMoe]

I decided after getting a free copy of XP from my university that I was not going to buy any Microsoft OS that came after. If Longhorn is incompatible with XP software (or vice versa) so much the better; it gives me no excuse other than old games to keep my XP install around.

I don't see Longhorn as being that big a deal anyway; they've stripped all the whiz-bang new features they promised so it will really just be a massive XP Service Pack, that costs as much as an upgrade of course.

[jlgreer1]

Not a chance! I already have software that isn't compatible with the exiting version that I had to upgrade to. It's too expensive to upgrade.

Jeff

[a12ctic]

hummm a new look... anyone seen it?

[a12ctic]

i might just because, i dont have a x86_64 windo$e disk

[Dolda2000]

Right now, I don't really see any reason for anyone to get longhorn. They've either pulled out almost everything that's supposed to be Longhorn-specific (WinFS, Monad, etc.) or backported it to Windows XP (Indigo, WinFX, .NET, etc.), so it seems that Longhorn will more-or-less be Windows XP with a new skin.

I got some screenshots of Longhorn as it looks right now just yesterday. It seems they were taken down from where I got them (they were slashdotted, so I think they pulled them down to save their server), so I've put them up on my homepage:
http://www.dolda2000.com/~fredrik/lf/lh/
The `install' directory contains screenshots of the Longhorn installer, and the `post' directory contains screenshots of it installed and running.

I'll admt that it does look pretty neat, but if that's all it does, then it's not exactly very impressive. And I still don't think that it looks as good as OSX.

Edit: Explained the subdirectories.

[techieMoe]

i might just because, i dont have a x86_64 windo$e disk

Just out of curiosity, what benefit do you see from running Longhorn on x86_64? I've used XP64 and it's not all that impressive, particularly up against 64-bit Linux offerings.

On the subject of the "new look", here's some non-slasdotted screen shots: Longhorn Shots

[a12ctic]

i might just because, i dont have a x86_64 windo$e disk

Just out of curiosity, what benefit do you see from running Longhorn on x86_64? I've used XP64 and it's not all that impressive, particularly up against 64-bit Linux offerings.

On the subject of the "new look", here's some non-slasdotted screen shots: Longhorn Shots

im a gamer, windows is a must, even though it proly wont be once i get my 6800gt