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Threatis:
thoughts on this, better than XP?


or just another Win ME mistake?

trolley:
Well it's the new name for longhorn, so it's a completely new product as i understand. Been a long time coming though. And it's probably still crash everyday.

Threatis:
oh, i know it's totally a new product, and i know its just the release name for Longhorn, and I'll probally install it ASAP.

my thing is, they pushed ME as a "totally new product", and look where that got them.

Addius:
The problem with ME was that they tried to merge two OSes that didn't really work the same even though it looked as if they did.

All in all the changes I've heard of is what you'd expect, beside the fs and cmd being late.

est:
i thought that the problem with Windows ME was that they didn't try to merge the 9x and NT lines.  to the best of my knowledge, that didn't really happen until XP.  windows 2k was the next step on from NT, and ME was the next step on from the 9x line.  most sane people took a look at win2k and said "what? it's stable and it runs games?  fuck Windows ME, man".  apart from the people who got Windows ME on a system as an OEM deal, of course.  they pretty much just complained a lot until one of their techy friends gave them either Win2k or XP.

now, i don't know if i am all that excited about Longhorn.  for one, all the exciting technologies they were talking about have pretty much been taken out of the cut-back release. the DB-driven file system has been pulled out, and that is about all i was interested in checking out.

as for the new name, i think that it is really weak.  i fully expect it to change before they ship.  i'm already seeing people on news sites complaining that it's a funny name for an operating system.  i think that it is a marketing-team name, and i think that they will get feedback from people that tells them that they've made a bad choice.  they have gone from a strong, macho sounding working title with good geek news sphere penetration (Longhorn) to a final name that tech-types will laugh at.  going from Whistler to XP wasn't bad, because Whistler didn't sound as iconic as Longhorn, and "XP" sounded pretty cool to tech-types.

on the nontechnical end-user front, compared to their previous releases it isn't a weighty enough name to sound like an OS.  i have a feeling that it may confuse some people.  they will think that it is an application or an add-on for windows rather than a full-fledged operating system.

but anyways, whatevers.  they say that it's coming out late next year, which means it'll probably actually hit early '07.  i'll try to grab the beta when it comes out, see if the new eye candy is worth the hassle/hype.

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