Comments on: Microsoft to Gut Longhorn

By: betterpc

betterpc — Mon, 27 Dec 2004 21:55:45 +0000

I think that Longhorn will be as leaky as XP. Remember how Microsoft told everybody that XP will be da-best OS ever? Now they are up to SP2 and it still sucks.

By: JC

JC — Sun, 29 Aug 2004 01:34:27 +0000

Hmm… if they read the entrails after gutting the longhorn, I wonder what the auguries will tell them? “Beware of the Tiger” maybe? lol

By: Ramblings of a Code Monkey

Ramblings of a Code Monkey — Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:28:39 +0000

Longhorn, the Lesser

The big news of the day, of course, is that Microsoft has made big changes to Longhorn (more from Microsoft Watch). Namely, it will be generally available in 2006, Avalon and Indigo will work on Win XPSP2 and Windows Server…

By: Charles Roper

Charles Roper — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 19:50:32 +0000

Seems like MS have taken note of Apple’s rapid pace of OS X development and is replacing the uber-all-in-one-(death-defying)-Longhorn with a more modular approach. This would seem to be much more sensible: they would have a less lumbering, more flexible release schedule; they can stay competetive (competition is good for everyone) by, for example, getting their spotlight-like instant searching tools built in sooner; they could get service packs out without the painfully bad PR of yet another uber-Longhorn delay; they would make more money with several smaller interim OS releases, a la OS X.

That last point there is their main driving motive, I would have thought. ;) Seriously though, breaking down Longhorn would seem to make a lot of sense for MS and its customers.

By: andrew

andrew — Fri, 27 Aug 2004 19:40:50 +0000

Talk about spin.

"This product will be awesome. There is (still) so much capability in (Longhorn)," Allchin said. "Having us stage all the work that we're doing here...is the right trade-off."