Quote: "Unless I'm missing something, MS developers do not develop Windows in the city of Whistler Seems like they love skiing in British Columbia is all (i.e. Whistler, Blackcomb, Longhorn are all ski hills here)."
Longhorn is also the name of the Suburb/Mountain in Los Angeles where development started.
I always felt that Whistler was quite out of place, but perhaps your right. Either way they're naming them after places.. again i'm sticking with the whole 'not sane' point.
Quote: "Jesus, I only put M$ because I couldn't be bothered to type out Microsoft five times. How can I call myself leet when I ask for help so much, which I'm not afriad or embrassed to do. If it pleases you I'll go back and edit the post to change M$ to Microsoft."
sorry but, why aren't you writing MS instead of M$.. some of us actually happen to work for them ya know so I do find it extremely offensive when retards do that. You want to be a retard about your spellings of Microsoft or it's abbrieviations go [censored ALOT] with those Linux fanboys in thier forums. don't care where the goat comes from but you can definately insert it [censored... seriously don't wanna know what was here before!] >:-(
Quote: "Do you think M$ would benifit if they had a long term project to create an entirely new foundation for their OSes to run on? That way they could meet most of peoples grips with Windows right from the very core of the system. Granted this would probally take longer than the usual development cycle, but if M$ could improve Windows then I'm sure they'd beat off any threat from another OS."
And what Microsoft are doing with Longhorn is different to that because..?
Seriously while I do admit with Paul, that the major problem is that Microsoft did promise more; and we are all sorely disappointed with the end result. A minor fact that is often forgotten is that Longhorn is actually pretty rock solid, even with current applications.
While this will be the first Windows OS that basically from the End-User perspective won't have changed.. underneath the hood, and Heavy-Useage Users, WILL see dramatic differences in the performance.
The new memory system works smoothly. Boot-up time is quicker than ever, I'm still waiting to see thier 'Unhook Reboot' allowing Windows to reboot without physically rebooting the system.. that should be cool. Searches are now done quicker.
All of the current programs load quicker and take less space, the libraries load quicker and take less space.
Everything has been changed from ridiculously hacked libraries to completely rewritten source to do exactly as it was intended to do after all of the hacks.
What you have is an entirely new breed of Windows, while still technically being effectively identical to the last one.
Quote: "On the flip side of that, what if M$ indulged in some open source projects, perhaps even creating their own version of Linux? I know this wouldn't be such a great hit with people, but if M$ developed their own Linux falvour that was compatible with M$ software then they could attract a lot of people to a free OS but control the software that was run it (thus making money)?"
They've already created thier own Unix, why would they waste thier time on something inferior?
