Longhorn set for late 06...w/o WinFS...

[quiksan]

here's the cnet QA article

Apparently in order to ship Longhorn before 2007 rolls around, they had to omit the release of the WinFS which is supposed to be (well it sounds like at least) similar to the Spotlight feature coming (oh, NEXT year!) in Tiger.

EDIT:
ok, so apparently they got bogged down on Longhorn, because they weregetting SP2 for XP delivered (you know, because of those pesky security holes and such, associated with windows...)

ok, so being an open minded soul - I'm sure Longhorn will be interesting when it comes out (some day) in it's full form. It's just ridiculous to think how far out it is. Even with slowing the pace of OS X OS upgrade releases, it'll still be ahead of Windows. ANd now they're delaying more of it.

on the upside, since IE is OS integrated now, it won't be out for what, almost 3 more years? plenty of time for Firefox/mozilla to take over and sink [that piece of crap] IE once and for all.

good weekend all!

 

[chevy]

It's good that new OS do not come too fast and too often. It reduces costs and increases stability (of hardware and software).

 

[Ricky]

on the upside, since IE is OS integrated now, it won't be out for what, almost 3 more years?

It's actually been like that since Win95, if I remember correctly.

 

[quiksan]

It's actually been like that since Win95, if I remember correctly.

I mean since they've stopped the independent releases of IE. sorry, wasn't clear there.
future IE releases are all supposed to be bundled with windows only.

 

[powermac]

The little bit that I have read about Longhorn did sound a bit ambitious. Although I am surprised they have chose to exclude some features to get it released, the pressure on M$ must be straining. Of course rumors will fly on whether they can actually get WinFs to work properly or not. Indeed makes Tiger, to those not excited about the release look better.

 

[Pengu]

It reduces costs and increases stability

Uh. Yes and No.

Reduces costs for individuals/small companies, because you're not buy new software all the time (make's no difference to places like where i work, the govt. buys a license, we get everything and use what we want basically)

But.
Point two. LESS software updates do not make it MORE stable. Any devices that use new technology essentially have to use a hack to make it work with the system, rather than using a built-in control or whatever. This means you have to always buy hardware that has legacy support. I mean, no amount of little updates can make one version of an OS work well for 6 years. I mean. think about it. SIX YEARS. They used to say computers double in speed every 18 months. so in theory, a PC of the same price bracket/model/etc bought just before longhorn (still with XP), will theoretically be four times faster than one that was bought when XP was first released. there is no way that any of these stupid updates MS puts out can make XP work well with hardware that is being produced six years later, without the hardware maker using some kind of legacy support, or OS hack. That is ridiculous. Perfect example.

The Logitech MX900. It comes in a pack with a BT keyboard. but. you have to have a USB port AND a P/S2 port. why? Because the USB is used for data, and the P/S2 so the PC doesn't shit it's pants, and you can still use the keyboard during the boot process. (to get into BIOS, Startup menu etc)

 

[delsoljb32]

there is no way that any of these stupid updates MS puts out can make XP work well with hardware that is being produced six years later, without the hardware maker using some kind of legacy support, or OS hack.

excellent way of putting it.

heheh, i was watching "the screen savers" on TechTV one day and one of the guys was commenting on one of the numerous XP patches or something from M$ and said: "you can polish a turd to a high shine, but in the end, its still a turd"

I fell off my chair laughing, someone went onto national (well, cable) television and called Windoze a piece of poop with a high shine. hahahaha