Microsoft Clips Longhorn 657
Gr8Apes writes "Microsoft is clipping Longhorn to get the already-delayed follow-up to Windows XP out the door by 2006. MS has decided to remove some of the most ambitious features. Blackcomb is the version to follow Longhorn, and is expected at the end of the decade. The full new file system feature has been moved to Blackcomb. Other notable parts of the story, in MS's efforts to get its DRM into play, a new version, Windows XP Premium will start shipping with new PCs, which will include a new version of the infamous Windows Media Player. This version will have the ability to shop at on-line stores like the one MS plans to launch later this year. It's their move to 'outflank Apple'."
Clipping Longhorn (Score:5, Funny)
Vegas, a good place for a Naming Convention (Score:5, Funny)
the words of several hundred CTOs: (Score:5, Funny)
why did I sign up for that stupid upgrade plan? WHY???
Blackcomb (Score:3, Funny)
I guess we can expect it in 2013 at the earliest.
Not here (Score:5, Funny)
Not in Europe, we're going to get the "Windows XP Premium Lite" edition, hah!
On the flipside... (Score:5, Funny)
Buy an operating system, and a PC comes with it? Hasn't it traditionally been the other way around?
Looking on the bright side (Score:2, Funny)
Well, not delayed too much, anyway.
Re:Blackcomb (Score:4, Funny)
Re:WinFS WILL be in the next version, just no netw (Score:5, Funny)
You could submit a story that Microsoft causes cancer, and they'd publish it with a bunch of spoof or dead links without batting an eye.
Re:Typical.... (Score:0, Funny)
I'll stick with OS X where I get Expose for only $129,
Clips Longhorn (Score:3, Funny)
-So then it's Shorthorn!
infamous (Score:4, Funny)
It's more than famous, it's infamous. (With apologies to The Three Amigos! [imdb.com]).
Re:Microsoft needs exactly ONE new product (Score:3, Funny)
Microsoft Linux is due out 2007, right after the breakup (of MS that is).
Re:WinFS WILL be in the next version, just no netw (Score:5, Funny)
That would just be tit-for-tat. Forrester Research has already concluded that Linux/J2EE causes colon cancer [theserverside.com]
Re:Microsoft needs exactly ONE new product (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Microsoft needs exactly ONE new product (Score:4, Funny)
- Didn't drive in the rain (wipers didn't work).
- Didn't drive on wet roads (bald tires).
- Didn't poke an appendage through the hole in the floorpan at speed.
- Held onto the driver's side door during right turns (it flew open).
- Kept a spare battery in the trunk.
- Kept a spare clutch and throwout bearing in the trunk.
Just a few simple precautions, and you were perfectly safe.Blackcomb? (Score:3, Funny)
Gates: "Brilliant!"
New Guy: "But sirs, we can see Mr. Ballmer's baldspot. It blinded half the staff at the softball game."
Ballmer: "The folks from New Dehli love my full head of hair."
New Guy: "Brilliant!"
Re:New Windows versions being programmed in India (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Microsoft needs exactly ONE new product (Score:1, Funny)
7. Don't let your wife drive.
8. Don't drive under influence.
9. Keep the kids quiet in the back.
10. Don't do more than 40mph.
11. Keep spare brake fluid in a bottle.
You're dead right. Selling products "for the masses" with a list of "OK so long as you..." is useless.
"Clips" longhorn?? (Score:4, Funny)
Maybe I used Office too much
Name Change: MS Shorthorn (Score:2, Funny)
MS on-line store (Score:2, Funny)
What? Now I have to pay for viruses?!
I was told... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:WinFS WILL be in the next version, just no netw (Score:1, Funny)
Indeed. This is truly a dramatic shift in Microsoft corporate policy.
They're allready too late... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Microsoft needs exactly ONE new product (Score:3, Funny)
No platform, especially one deployed at such great lengths, will be 100% secure... There are just too many things that could possibly cause problems.
Well lets say I develop an OS that is REALLY buggy, but I am the only person to use it, nobody will exploit it because they dont even know it exists! Now I then sell this OS to EVERYONE in the world, and everyone has an OS that nobody can exploit!
Muhhahaha!! I am rich AND secure! Life is good!
Now I do think im missing some sort of step in there however, the obscurity turning into security, but oh well, I am RICH!
Obligatory Matrix comparison (Score:3, Funny)
"Later this year, it (MSFT) plans to begin a new marketing campaign, dubbed internally as Windows XP Reloaded."
Sounds appropriate... incredible special effects, which turn out to be mere bells & whistles to make up for the lack of substance. Brilliant!
Re:WinFS WILL be in the next version, just no netw (Score:1, Funny)
Re:WinFS WILL be in the next version, just no netw (Score:2, Funny)
What company do you work for again? I have a withdrawl to make.