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Longhorn Delayed Again - Who Wins?

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Roy Culley

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Apr 9, 2005, 2:39:41 PM4/9/05
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"If there's another delay, I think the PC industry en masse would
descend on Redmond like a lynch mob," said META Group analyst
Steve Kleynhans. "It needs to hit the streets before the end of
2006 for the holiday season, and companies already have that in
their sales projections."

In the last few weeks, the tech industry has been buzzing with
speculation that Microsoft's next OS release, Longhorn, will not
be ready for its planned 2006 unveiling.

If the OS is put off until 2007, some competitors could win more
profits, but many analysts say that software and hardware partners
will face the most serious challenges and could end up losing more
than they anticipated.

This is not the first time Longhorn has had rumors about delay
swirling around it, but because some of those rumors have come
true, many in the industry are waiting to see if 2006 really will
be the year of Longhorn -- or if they need to take their business
elsewhere.

Any bets on XP SP3 being renamed Longhorn? :-)

paul.c...@nospamblueyonder.co.uk

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Apr 9, 2005, 3:33:53 PM4/9/05
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Roy Culley wrote:

nah... XP will be brushed up, some of the Media center stuff will sneak
across, the plus pack will get chucked in and we'll get XP SE, and then
when they've got avalon sorted out, XP + Avalon will come out with a
different name and they'll be claiming it is Longhorn, but it won't be...
and the real features of Longhorn will merely be quietly moved to another
Skiing resort codename...

Remember, they shovelled ME out onto the public while XP was late... Did
their usual trick of raising the prices of previous versions to force the
OEMS to pre-install ME when everyone really wanted 98 SE

meanwhile, we with Linux will have Beagle + Dashboard properly sorted out so
all the advantages of WinFS will be on our side without having to have a
completely new filesystem foisted on us.

Beagle and Dashboard are going into the next version of Ubuntu... we should
have it sorted for the October release... :)

Montrose...

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Apr 9, 2005, 4:25:49 PM4/9/05
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paul.c...@NOSPAMblueyonder.co.uk wrote:

> Beagle and Dashboard are going into the next version of Ubuntu... we should
> have it sorted for the October release... :)

and they're written in mono

Sinister Midget

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Apr 9, 2005, 5:55:17 PM4/9/05
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On 2005-04-09, quoth Roy Culley <r...@nodomain.none>:

Minus WinFS (already). Minus 3D. Plus more restrictions (a given). And
an assurance to hardware makers that it'll obsolete a whole lot of
stuff they want to replace.

--
Microsoft: The company that made instant messaging dangerous.

shmell...@hotmail.com

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Apr 9, 2005, 8:26:22 PM4/9/05
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Microsoft will sell no wine until it's time!


Shmell

Peter

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Apr 9, 2005, 10:50:30 PM4/9/05
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On 9 Apr 2005 17:26:22 -0700, shmell...@hotmail.com wrote:

>
>Microsoft will sell no wine until it's time!
>

As far as I am concerned thay can delay Longhorn until it is perfect.

ralph

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Apr 9, 2005, 11:26:27 PM4/9/05
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Peter wrote:

I agree.

Roy Culley

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Apr 10, 2005, 6:00:21 AM4/10/05
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<4258e617$1...@x-privat.org>,
Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez <jker...@bgsec.com> writes:
> You mean... never?

Perfection for MS is it all compiles and system boots. They then sell
it so that the gullible users system test it. Longhorn will probably
be obsolete by the time they manage to release it.

William Poaster

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Apr 10, 2005, 6:03:05 AM4/10/05
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begin fcukyou.vbs It was on Sun, 10 Apr 2005 02:50:30 +0000, that Peter
was seen to write:

Going off the crap that M$ have produced in the past, the day *that*
happens the Devil will be skating to work.

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You can't explain somethings to stupid people...
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Jeremy Fisher

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Apr 10, 2005, 10:14:03 AM4/10/05
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On Sat, 09 Apr 2005 17:26:22 -0700, shmell_dakaka wrote:

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> Microsoft will sell no wine until it's time!
>
>
> Shmell

When its time, it will be corked, and aged beyond its sell by date.

A very fine vinger wine it will make.

Jem..

Tom Randy

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Apr 10, 2005, 2:33:08 PM4/10/05
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Which will be never.


TCS

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Apr 10, 2005, 6:18:10 PM4/10/05
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and require a 6 gigahertz machine and 4 gig of memory.
It will run like a dog with 3ghz process and 2 gig of memory.
Microsoft will declare that the minimal requirements are a 1.5mhz p4 and 512 M
of memory. By the time 6ghz/4gb machines are under $1000, microsoft will
bloat it out some more.

If history means anything.

American Pope

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Apr 10, 2005, 8:49:57 PM4/10/05
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Roy Culley wrote:

> In the last few weeks, the tech industry has been buzzing with
> speculation that Microsoft's next OS release, Longhorn, will not
> be ready for its planned 2006 unveiling.

They must mean the 2006 "unravelling"

spi...@freenet.co.uk

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Apr 11, 2005, 7:11:13 AM4/11/05
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But wine vinegar has it's uses... In fine cuisine no less...
I'd hardly say that about windows anything.

Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez

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Apr 10, 2005, 4:30:09 AM4/10/05
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You mean... never?

Regards.

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mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time,
the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn
like fabulous yellow Roman candles.
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Robert Newson

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Apr 16, 2005, 1:12:08 PM4/16/05
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Roy Culley wrote:

Is this another delay:


http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20050413220329148


Mark Kent

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Apr 17, 2005, 2:17:18 AM4/17/05
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Robert Newson <Reap...@bullet3.fsnet.oc.ku> espoused:

I wonder how long before large companies realise that software patents are
just as bad for them as they are for small ones..?

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agent...@gmail.com

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May 15, 2005, 11:31:01 AM5/15/05
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Like, someones proberly already said this but I heard that Media Centre
and Movie Maker are NOT going to be bundled out with Longhorn,
apparently it will come with a pack costing around £79! So, What good
is there with it? I am hardly excited at all about Longhorn, I was more
excited about the new Mac OS!

Jim

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May 15, 2005, 12:08:51 PM5/15/05
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I've heard something along those lines too... something to do with the
forced seperation of the platform from the multimedia software in
Europe. Are they going to be doing this everywhere?

Not that I'm overly concerned by it, Windows is slowly getting pushed
out to the sideline here. I won't have it at all by the time Longhorn
gets released (if it ever does get released).

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Cheers,

Jim

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