New Windows? New PC? Preparing for Longhorn
Posted by Keldyn on 30 November 2002 - 00:50 · 16 comments & 690 views
A new windows release from the boys at Redmond is always an exciting time for PC enthusiasts everywhere, (just think back to the pre XP days),but will it be worth it? Is 2000 or even XP good enough for me? Should we wait for a service pack or two? Or will we bite the bullet and jump right in?. With Microsoft continually pushing new features and better performance i have to ask the question. Is it worthwhile jumping on the MS bandwagon and upgrading once Longhorn is out? Are the current offerings from MS sufficient or are we destined to be locked into an endless cycle of OS upgrades? Perhaps it is simply too early to tell? What do you think?- Keldyn

Windows XP has been on the market for a year now, so naturally everyone is clamoring for details on the next version of the world's most popular operating system -- or so Microsoft Corp. hopes

Details are dribbling out, but Microsoft won't say a word on the record, declining to comment for this story. Analysts and software developers haven't been briefed, either.

But here's what has leaked out so far.

The next version of the world's most popular desktop operating system, code-named "Longhorn," is due out in test form next year and in final form in 2004. It will have a new look and feel, very different from Windows XP's. Its guts will also be radically different from Windows XP's, because they're based on XML -- extensible markup language, the emerging lingua franca of the Internet. And it will be the first version that won't function fully without new hardware.

"With the possible exception of Windows NT, which was a change from the ground up, this could be the biggest change ever..."


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News source: Seattle Post Intelligencer

Scrapping its system of calculating database software licence fees based on the power of the hardware running it (called the universal power unit model), Oracle changed to a flat-rate, fee-per-processor model for its 9i database software.

"If you consider 9iAS, you have very little choice. You can either buy a terribly basic version, or an expensive 'souped-up' version," said Miles. "My own view is that they have gone too far down the simplicity route."

But Oracle had done well in responding to customer concerns in areas such as support and the quality of some parts of their software, Miles added.

The vendor's online support system, MetaLink, received heavy criticism in last year's survey. But with the work that Oracle has put in, and with customers getting used to it, "it is now seen as a great tool", he said.

Perceptions of Oracle's business application suite had also improved as more customers made use of applications such as customer relationship management (CRM), Miles said.

However, sounding a note of caution Miles pointed out that although CRM had received higher marks than previously in the satisfaction survey, its improvements had come from a low starting base.

"As a user group, we need to work out why CRM projects succeed," he said.


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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by rastachops on 30 Nov 2002 - 01:38
Im gonna base my next PC on a 64bit CPU and various other bits n bobs so hopefully it'll be LH compatible.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by vetDazzla on 30 Nov 2002 - 02:11
[quote]And it will be the first version that won't function fully without new hardware.[/quote] Palladium?
Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by JaggedFlame on 30 Nov 2002 - 04:32
Hell no. If you knew what Palladium was about, you might know that it leaves non-Palladium applications alone. Or that Palladium isn't even going to be out for a while.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by wildliquid on 30 Nov 2002 - 02:20
well i think most people upgrade their pcs fairly regularly so there shouldnt be much problem should there?
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by tonyunreal on 30 Nov 2002 - 03:10
Windows 2000 is the best.
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by brew crew on 03 Dec 2002 - 05:41
if your wondering why this post seems out of place, its called censorship ..and their seems to be alot of that going on around here, and I thought this was a free society with freedom of speech, I guess not, welcome to the New World Order, even Neowin is a part now, and to think this place used to be the bomb. .....watch this will probably get deleted as well freedom of speech my ass

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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by SHoTTa35 on 30 Nov 2002 - 05:00
i think i'm more than ready so bring on the damn OS already!! I loved XP so i can't wait for LH!!
(4 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by jardragon901 on 30 Nov 2002 - 11:29
im wary what microsoft wants me to upgrade my parts to though, i dont want no stinkin palladium crap .
Quote this comment #6.1 Posted by Jason on 30 Nov 2002 - 13:19
you have never seen Palladium, never used Palladium and know nothing about Palladium as MS have said almost nothing !!!!!
Quote this comment #6.2 Posted by AccessDenied on 30 Nov 2002 - 19:38
Am I seeing things, or do you have -32 posts?
Quote this comment #6.3 Posted by Jason on 01 Dec 2002 - 01:09
Yes I do and proud of it
Quote this comment #6.4 Posted by Rambo2000 on 02 Dec 2002 - 03:44
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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by cork1958 on 30 Nov 2002 - 13:30
Screw MS! I'm not a bandwagon jumper. W2K rocks well enough for me. I try my best NOT to continually line Bill Gates' pockets. With the childish look and feel of XP, Longhorn will probably be designed exclusively for AOHELL users! LOL
Quote this comment #7.1 Posted by bilston on 30 Nov 2002 - 13:57
Awesome excuse not to use XP!! Never seen that one before. Infact its a good job they did implement the GUI in XP because if you don't know how to disable it, then you probably need it anyway.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by Drestin on 30 Nov 2002 - 16:52
Ahhh yes, when I want to know the technical details of secret upcoming releases from MS - I always turn to that ultimate source of high tech accuracy in software, the Seattle Post Intelligencer. um... huh? I mean, ok, so you copy/pasted another /. post - used to that. But, does anyone here actually consider the source before considering the content? I know I do. What could the SPI possibly know that better sources in the beta world wouldn't. Then again - reading this article puts Longhorn in a very good light in my eyes.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by Rambo2000 on 02 Dec 2002 - 03:53
This Palladium thing seems a very risky move for us all, they could pretty much decide what can or can't be run on your own computer, thats one way Microsoft could have full control, as well as other big companys, but we are the ones that lose out, so if this new windows is anything like that then I think I'll move to Linux, which is a good thing that Linux should be a good enough replacement by then. In the end, I want freedom to do what I want when I want on my computer, I don't want Microsoft decideing what I can and can't do and ripping me off because they can. I understand that Microsoft want us to upgread our computer parts because new hardware will have that Palladium thing built in which by hardware and software Microsoft and other big companys can decide what we can run and not run, it's too risky for my likeing, the big companys could wipe out smaller companys by not letting them run, all I can say if thats the way it's going then thank god Linux is mature at the right time to take over.
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