Ive tried the alpha version and it was so bad, on 512MB of RAM, a 60GB empty HDD (Apart form the OS of course) and 1.5GHz processor it would take about 6 minutes to open the start menu or a window such as "My Computer" using longhorn milestone 5 - didnt look too shabby though - but then, neither do girls with STDs!!
Best Regards, Ken Gilmour Proud Debian user and coffeeaholic Registered Linux User # 330371 http://counter.li.org Replying to the message sent by Ray on Thu, 30 Oct 2003 11:18:56 -0600, received at 17:35:18 on 30/10/2003. Ray wrote: >On Thursday 30 October 2003 10:41, Tom wrote: >> Has anybody else been surprised by the amount of good press MS is >> getting this week over longhorn? I think people are looking at the >> Mac OS9 -> OSX total rewrite and projecting wishes for MS to do >> something as drastic. >> >> It's like watching somebody involved in a bad marriage: I'll just >> stick by him/her, they're bound to change. It's worth it, if only >> for the kids. >> >> It's always interesting to watch 'em finally wake up. > >the way i was looking at it is longhorn must be horrible if the >marketing has to get this much of a running start on reviews before >the actual scheduled release(was it 2006?). if you heard there was a >movie/game/tech that had marketing running for 3 years before >release, wouldn't that be a sign of major suckage to you too? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
