OT: New low for Microsoft!

[Bob Shaffer]

This is all nonsense.  I've seen Longhorn running on a laptop that
couldn't have been any faster than 1 GHz and everything worked as well as
you could expect from MS.  Whoever "leaked" those specs was full of crap. 
The recommended specs will be far less than what that article said, and it
will be at least as unstable and useless as everything else MS has
released.

Preston Crawford said:
> On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 22:13, Matthew Miller wrote:
>> On Wed, May 05, 2004 at 05:42:21AM +0100, Keith G. Robertson-Turner
>> wrote:
>> > It's at times like these, that I am greatly relieved I'm not a Windows
>> > user:
>> > http://www.genesis-x.nildram.co.uk/news/article00005.html
>>
>> Yeah, sure would suck to have software designed to take capabilities of
>> what
>> sounds like a pretty average machine three years from now. Oh, the
>> humanity.
>
> You're kidding, right? You're actually defending software bloat for the
> sake of software bloat? I run a PIII 800 I bought 3 years ago. Given the
> current needs of Open Source Software I can see myself using this
> machine for another 4 years. Easily. Is there something wrong with
> stretching your dollar for computer hardware or did I miss the memo that
> we must purchase new machines every other year? This machine works
> great. I do email, web, development, run a mySQL server, CVS server and
> an HTTP server on it and I have RAM and CPU cycles to spare. Even when
> I'm ripping CDs, burning CDs and watching DVDs. I don't need more power
> now and I'm already like 3 years behind the curve in terms of power. I
> can't imagine NEEDING the specs that this article describes.
>
> If I do, there's something fundamentally wrong with the software I'm
> running. Either that or the software better be balancing my checkbook,
> running my budget, setting up appointments for me, answering my voice
> mail and returning phone calls per my instructions and looking up all
> data I request via voice recognition. Oh, and it should carry on
> conversations with me if I'm bored. Meaning, this kind of power means
> the software better be doing a lot more than just bloating an already
> bloated OS and adding a few minor software enhancements. Otherwise, I
> don't see what Longhorn could do to justify these specs.
>
> Preston
>
>
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