Longhorn Developers @ MSDN

ePIsOdEOnline writes "The official Microsoft Longhorn Developers website went live. Content is filled with information fresh from the PDC, and the host of secrecy swarming Microsoft and its next generation Operating System, Longhorn"

Not eating their own dogfood?

[ChaoticChaos]

"The official Microsoft Longhorn Developers website went live."

Must not be running Longhorn.

Tail Pipe

[tonyMontana69]

Looks like Micro$oft did it again and we're gonna have to take the Longhorn up the old tailpipe.

Make or Break?

[Tetsugaku-San]

Make or Break for M$ eh? Ooooo please let it be break! pleaseOpleaseOpleaseOpleaseOpleaseO :)

Longhorn apt-get easy!

[Debian Troll's Best]

I've already upgraded my Debian box to Longhorn using a simple apt-get dist upgrade command. I don't know why Microsoft has secrecy warnings all over the place...you should be able to get it from any Debian mirror. Has anyone else upgraded their Debian install this way? I can't seem to find GNOME any more.

Microsoft eliminate blue screen of death...

[MountainMan101]

The fix was simple. They simply swapped:
$error.backcolour=#0000ff;

for

$error.backcolour=#000000;

Now, no Blue screen of death!

Windows Longhorn business plan

[Anonymous Coward]

Aero is the new Windows user experience. Aero consists of guidelines, recommendations, and user experience values that help your applications get the most out of the Microsoft Windows Code Name "Longhorn"

Step 1: Have all your windows waste even more screen space with extra wide title bars and flashy BIG 3d rendered icons
Step 2: Users must now all buy brand new, larger monitors and video cards
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Muwahahah all the money in the world is ours

Re:Editor's Blog

[Sayten241]

Looks like a premature launch

And as we all know, premature launches are not satisfying.

Microsoft has solved the ultimate question

[Ianoo]

Aristotle, Descartes, Plato and Socrates couldn't manage it, but it seems that Microsoft has solved the ultimate question. Take a read of this crap:

For thousands of years, philosophers and scientists have attempted to explain the cosmos in terms of dual opposing but coexistent principles: good and evil, yin and yang, matter and energy, mind and body, waves and particles, and, of course, programming code and markup languages. Programming and markup currently coexist in an uneasy truce. In theory, programming languages can do anything the computer is capable of, but they're often clunky for the job of laying out text, images, and controls in a simple visual interface. Markup is great for defining highly textured pages of text and images that adapt to different screen sizes and environments, but is hopelessly inept when it comes time to interact with the user in any nontrivial way. In creating a new programming interface for building Windows(R)-based client applications, the developers at Microsoft have decided not to deny this dualism, but to embrace and celebrate it. They have created an environment in which programming and markup boldly and intricately mesh in mutually supporting roles. The result--the presentation subsystem code-named "Avalon"--may well be the greatest experiment in synergistic duality since Adam and Eve. Vive la difference!

Emphasis my own. I think I'm going to be sick.

Re:Longhorn apt-get easy!

[Malc]

Err, somebody should start a discussion on one of their mailing lists. They do realize that it violates there contract and it belongs in non-free, right?

Re:Not eating their own dogfood?

[TedCheshireAcad]

I can't seem to find the CVS repository.

Anyone else had luck?

Re:Wise choice

[mahdi13]

But 3 years to polish off what is now in beta?
Who does MS think they are...Debian?!

Re:who cares?

[tbone1]

slashdotters have bred? I don't think 'interesting' is quite the word ...

Re:Already a bug!

[bpbond]

If only we had a word processor that would flag those kinds of things automatically. Acutally, why not correct them automatically, too? And maybe have some sort of animated character to interact with the user...yeah, right, THAT'S the ticket!

Re:Loooooonghorn

[miltimj]

Definitely my favorite quote on that page:

2. Open the "DefaultStore," which is a view of WinFX through the Win32(R) APIs. Drag in copies of a variety of photos, music, and documents. (Use only copies of your data to prevent data loss.)

oops. . .

[Robert Hopson]

I take it all back, please bring back the daily SCO coverage.

Longhorn's target PC specs...

[freejamesbrown]

"4-6GHz processor
2GB+ memory
1TB hard drive
Graphics processor 3X today's performance
1GB Ethernet, 54Mbps wireless networking"

4-6Ghz? "Trend: Developers rent meat lockers."

2GB+ memory... "our API has completely done away with garbage collection. we just periodically reboot."

1TB? are we going to support versioning of the entire hard drive? (might be an interesting way to roll back virus damage.) ...
m.

Re:Foghorn Leghorn

[snooo53]

That'd be really funny if they could get the voice down for error messages

"I say, I say, you've got a fatal exception at 0E33, son."

Clippy:"Well, barbeque my hamhocks, looks like you're writin' a letter. I'm gonna give you a bit of advice, boy. So far, this letter's about as sharp as a bowling ball..."

Enough with the MS press releases

[re-geeked]

How many Longhorn articles is this now?

Is Slashdot still interested in Free Software?

Or did someone forget to tell me that Longhorn is GPL'd?

Also, isn't there someplace better than the front page to discuss minor updates to legacy systems?

I mean, really, Windows?? Who uses this crap any more?

Re:Have some Alpo!

[tuba_dude]

Dude, he said "beta-quality" not "beta".

Re:Make or Break?

[sharkey]

please let it be break!

Gee, what are the chances of THAT happening?