[olug] Microsoft is out of control!

[Shaughn]

Why'd people switch from 95 to 98? or to 2000 or XP?  Because they 
could, more eye candy.. A few years ago when xp was new, my views was, 
2000 is good enough why upgrade for just new looks.. Now I like xp more 
than 2k. I've used the leaked longhorn  builds, IMHO there is nothing 
worth while in those. Different colors. Perhaps when computers hit their 
point in 3-4 years, longhorn MIGHT be more fun to use, but after it's 
released, a few years later everyone will have it and it'll be the 
common thing.

One of the things I found wrong with this is that longhorn has been in 
development for awhile now, and we have to wait another 3 years? WTF... 
Oh well.. I use windows cause it's what I use.. i'll upgrade if I feel 
the need for more eyecandy, and down the road, we'll have 3d floating 
princess lea's.. So if longhorn helps that, bring on the horns baby.. 
bring on the horns.


Don't know why i'm typing this, just thought it'd be neat to comment.

Oh yeah, home joe user will want to upgrade to beable to have flashy 
things on his screen, and get more virii of course.

thehaas at binary.net wrote:

>On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 05:14:31PM -0500, Phil Brutsche wrote:
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>>>In other words, we can expect Microsoft's demo to be done at a
>>>snail's pace?
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>>Nope, I expect it to run quite nicely.
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>My question is -- what does MS think that Longhorn will give Home Joe
>User that they will want to upgrade to a massive machine?  Already,
>people are happy when their machines "just work" -- they just want to
>email, IM, surf, and maybe make a greeting card or two.  How is
>Longhorn going to improve their user experience?
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>(Note that I'm talking about Home Joe User -- the machines in the
>office are a different thing.)
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