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Are You Anticipating "Longhorn"?

Woof	Date: May 21, 2005 @ 4:56 AM It's supposed to be released later this year... and I'm still not too sure how to feel about that... It's being touted as the most secure Micro$oft OS ever... and at the same time, looking at preview screenshots, it looks more and more as though M$ is intending to make the underlying guts of the OS more and more invisible to the end-user... a major loss, IMHO... Is anybody else watching the previews?
Apertome	Date: May 21, 2005 @ 2:20 PM I'm anticipating it, but in the same way I'm anticipating getting an ulcer from all the coffee I drink.
azhazhellfire	Date: May 23, 2005 @ 6:23 AM man it must've taken an elite team of name thinkers weeks of solid work to think up "longhorn".
Svensta	Date: May 23, 2005 @ 8:18 AM Most secure is just... Every new OS version MUST be more secure. That's like saying our new cars will have NO miles on them. It's expected. MS is bundling. Media 9 or 10 will be in this. Less registry access, more hidden bloat. It's the standard MS update. See 98 vs 3.1 See XP vs 2000. It's another worthwhile update for the CASUAL users. Power users should really still be back on Win 2k, the best OS they've ever produced.
Woof	Date: May 24, 2005 @ 2:27 AM Aaaah, the bloat... the bloat! That's always been my major beef with Windows, ever since XP came out... IMHO, making Media Player 9 an integral part of the OS was a major, major mistake. I simply don't NEED a built-in media burner/cataloguer as part of my OS. Especially since it's proven to be a major source of interference with packet writing software from both Roxio and Ahead... the two major third party vendors for years. That was the first indication I had that something was fishy. Fortunately, I could at least tweak the hell out of the rest of XP until it resembled 2000 as closely as possible... getting my folders, etc., to display in the classic style, with details, etc... and I've even been able to avoid Service Pack 2 until just recently (my laptop came installed with it). Really, though... by trying to make an OS that does every task the manufacturer imagines an end user would want to perform, it seems like it's getting more and more impossible to find reliable third party programs... ones that won't malfunction somewhere along the line due to conflicts with the OS programs. And sadly, I've often found third party software that's a lot more powerful and efficient than anything that comes bundled with the OS. It's just be great, I think, if M$ would come up with an OS that just basically allows a solid platform to run programs on... which was what 2000 was. Add the graphic enhancements that XP and Avalon promise, and keep the patches coming as bugs appear, and leave the swiss army knife mindset behind. That's what I'd like to see...
Bradyn	Date: June 22, 2005 @ 1:19 AM Longhorn just looks like someone took the crayons to XP. As for the underlying 'security' features, well poo to them. I'll stick with Linux, thanks.
Svensta	Date: June 22, 2005 @ 8:47 AM You can't get better security, Bradyn, than to be on an OS that has such a small user-base as to not lure many coders to write malware for it. Small user-base taken to mean as a proportion of all home desktops purchased and run by casual users. Power users don't fear virii or hackers.
wet1	Date: June 22, 2005 @ 3:02 PM I with you Bradyn. I changed to Linux the other day. I sort of like it and am in the process of figuring it out. I have picked up several sources of install packages off the net and am quite happy with the Linux. So far there isn't much that I want to do that Linux doesn't have an answer for. As for the bloat ridden, security hole called Windoze, they can keep it and the inflated price that comes with it.

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