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Microsoft online chat: Longhorn - The Future of Windows

Posted by Daniel Fleshbourne on 12 April 2004 - 16:22 · 17 comments & 979 views

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Longhorn - The Future of Microsoft Windows

You've heard about some big changes on the way in Microsoft's next Windows release due out around 2005. How will they affect you and can you start planning now? Should you wait for the new releases or deploy existing OS's?

Date: April 12, 2004
Time: 10:30 A.M. – 11:30 A.M. Pacific time - 1:30 P.M. – 2:30 P.M. Eastern time - 18:30 – 19:30 GMT/BST

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#1 Posted by Mav Phoenix on 12 Apr 2004 - 17:09: OOOHHH I'm so there.

#2 Posted by vip on 12 Apr 2004 - 17:43: Kind of crazy in there right now :l

(2 replies) #3 Posted by Z_God on 12 Apr 2004 - 17:57

When I click the link, I get the following error:

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Is Longhorn only aimed at current Windows users?
It seems that MS thinks that people that are currently using an OS other than Windows, shouldn't switch to Longhorn.

#3.1 Posted by Jugalator on 12 Apr 2004 - 21:13: I noticed that too, so I didn't bother with the chat.

It's kind of funny, since I've seen a whole lot of cross-browser chats before. Not surprising either, since they should be able to do the major part of the job server-side and not rely on their users using specific browsers...

#3.2 Posted by akuma-x on 13 Apr 2004 - 01:00: yeah I have noticed that too. all the Longhorn videos on the dev. site do not work on anything but the windows ver. of WMP9. You would think they would want to make this info open to everyone in hops of getting none Windows users to buy their new OS. I guess they are not into marketing to anyone but their existing user base.

#4 Posted by Mav Phoenix on 12 Apr 2004 - 18:29: Too much crap going on in there and stupid ass people.

#5 Posted by neostyle on 12 Apr 2004 - 21:58: what an amazing chat that was ....!

lot of questions ....

muahhhhhhhh

(1 reply) #6 Posted by Ciderx on 12 Apr 2004 - 22:09: it was a rubbish chat. Most of the questions were idiotic, and any interesting topics were either ignored or told that they couldn't talk about these things. And the WinFS are-they-or-aren't-they topic wasn't answered apart from that it seems that Microsoft have seriously toned down what it will do.

#7 Posted by nuka_t on 12 Apr 2004 - 23:14: so it would be pointless for me to ask for a link to the chat transcript? post it anyways.

#8 Posted by baSix on 12 Apr 2004 - 23:50: No the chat wasn't terribly informative but here's a .txt of the chat windows for those who missed it.

Link

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#9 Posted by aristotle-dude on 13 Apr 2004 - 00:19: Read the link . Not much info. Mostly propaganda. Active searching in nothing new. It's a nice thing to have but not neccessary. I have it in Panther and I use it sometimes. What I'd like out of my work OS is stablility, responsiveness and speed and less screen clutter. I have to revert back to classic to have a professional interface at work.

It does not look like longhorn is going to deliver any of those things so far.

(1 reply) #10 Posted by ZTrang on 13 Apr 2004 - 01:23: That chat really wasn't informative at all (reading from the posted text file). All of the questions they did answer were almost completely inconsequential, and the answer to all other questions was either "I'm sorry, we can't tell you that," or "wait for WinHec." Thanks a lot, that was really informative. Their comment about entering a luxury hotel from the back alley was also nonsensical. The only things I really gleaned from that chat were that WinFS is still a part of Longhorn, the GUI is being overhauled (which everyone already knows), and that typing in "B...U...D..." into the search bar will find all budget documents on your hard drive in Longhorn (woo hoo, I just have to upgrade now!)

I can't say I blaim the moderators, since they have their hands completely tied, but that was a completely pointless chat. Did anyone else get any useful facts out of it that I missed?

(1 reply) #11 Posted by Jugalator on 13 Apr 2004 - 08:48: Beta or Alpha?

Once again, I see MS said:

"Blainbar_MS : A: The first public Beta will be available in summer of 2004. After that, we’ll release Longhorn when we’ve been able to address Beta issues and we’re sure you’ll love it."

That's pretty cool if they'll have a beta ready already this summer, I thought only an alpha would be. Wasn't there recent bad news about this?

#12 Posted by Powerless on 13 Apr 2004 - 19:19: Ummm I thought there were no Alphas...MS call them Pre-Alphas?

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