Microsoft Offers Peek Into Newest Windows

Yahoo! News Technology ^ | 5/18/03 | Reed Stevenson - Reuters

[oceanview]

just in case you need more information:

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,16021,00.asp

[Paleo Conservative]

The main improvement is that Longhorn will be a 64bit OS rather than a 32bit OS.

Will it be true 64-bit, or will it really just be 32-bit with the ability to use 64-bith memory adresses. It's going to be important really soon to have 64-bit memory adressing. The 4 GB memory limit of 32-bit processors is about to reached. I know a friend of mine who runs technical applications on a Dell laptop with 2 GB of memory.

[Cicero]

I don't know what's to complain about. Every new operating system since Windows 2.0 has been an improvement over its predecessor, with the sole exception of WinME. Win98 was better than Win95. Win98SE was a further improvement. Win 2000 was terrific. And I find WinXP slightly preferable to Win 2000. The same has been true of Internet Explorer upgrades.

[rdb3]

I love the graphic, but now I feel compelled to ask: was that picture composed on a Linux machine?

I dunno...

The Gimp could have made it on the *nix plat. Then again, I'm not into graphix, so don't get me to lying.

Doing bad things to bad people...

[Gforce11]

So everytime a court says something is right or wrong..then it must be so. Ok I think I will go back to sleep now. I have been enlightened. The fact that the court's judges had such an anti Microsoft bias had nothing to do with it.

The most BS term I have ever heard is "anticompetitive" behavior. If Microsoft payed the US Government (federal, state, or local) then I'd be all for the lawsuits. The fact that they didn't, the became number one on their own, and and..the more important part is that the consumer and businesses still had a choice of using MAC and Linux leads me to believe that the lawsuit was BS.

[oceanview]

do you work for MSFT? or are you just a normal person in denial.

[gitmo]

DHCP is a good protocol.

[Gforce11]

LOL, no I don't work for MSFT or never have. But lets see...did Microsoft force businesses and consumers into buying something you didn't want to buy? The answer is NO!!!. So to me there was always a choice...just because MS didn't behave like you think they should've doesn't make them anti competitive.

Thomas Pennfield Jackson was reprimanded for his stupid remarks "off the field" so to speak about his anti Microsoft behavior, I hope you know that.

[TheStickman]

I'm curious how you have your hardware setup so that win2000 runs faster than XP does. I have a P4 512 ram and a GF-ti4200 vid card with about 220 gigs in HD space and win2k runs great on my machine but not nearly as fast as XP Home or Pro does. My machine is primarily used as a DAW but I do some gaming and movie watching as well as basic surfing.

Again, just curious.

[xrp]

My NT machine regular is up 4-6 weeks without needing a reboot. It is my domain controller and serves a webpage. Windows 2000 does rock though. However, my FreeBSD machine has held up for 100 days straight without needing a reboot and the reason it went down was because of a power outage. :(

[Paleo Conservative]

Win 2000 is faster and leaner then XP. But XP has one thing I really like. Cleartype fonts that work great for LCD monitors. So much sharper.

Yes. One thing I do have complaints about Windows 2K is how difficult it is to use high resolution monitors. Sure Windows 2K will run a 1600 x 1200, but it can be difficult to read full some of the text in dialog boxes and messages from the operating system even on a 21-inch monitor. The size of menus and text is not really indepedent of the screen resolution. Windows XP seems to have the ability to scale them up without having to change "themes".

[oceanview]

at work, our Sun servers are rebooted perhaps twice per year, and that's just as a precaution!

[xrp]

Hah...Linux hit in 1991 or so...Linux still remains a geek OS. Although, Red Hat is really doing well with their flavour of Linux. I run 8.0 and that's pretty sweet. I haven't tried Red Hat 9.0 yet. I've noticed that even when running with few services, Linux is becoming more and more a resource hog like Windows. I currently run RH 8.0 on a P2/400/256Mb RAM and sometimes it is sluggish. I can't imagine what RH 9.0 would be like. I run one of the latest versions of FreeBSD on a 486DX/80 with 64Mb RAM and it screeeeeeeeeeeeeeams, except when compiling :)

[xrp]

Internet Explorer STILL doesn't offer an option to TURN OFF popup windows, something Mozilla and Opera web browsers both offer.

[Paleo Conservative]

My NT machine regular is up 4-6 weeks without needing a reboot. It is my domain controller and serves a webpage. Windows 2000 does rock though. However, my FreeBSD machine has held up for 100 days straight without needing a reboot and the reason it went down was because of a power outage. :(

If I took out all the hardware upgrades in that machine and went back to the factory configuration, it probably would work a couple of months without reboots. The problem was that after all the upgrades in memory, processors, graphics cards, hard disks, CD-RW writers, etc. it got less reliable. The whole menagerie of hardware started performing as if it had been preloaded at a factory with Windows 2000 when I upgraded the machine.

[xrp]

Oh, I see. I just run NT Server on my P166/64Mb RAM, it's rock solid stable and does the job that I need it to do in my LAN err house.

[Crispy]

"Market for cutting edge PCs that cost >$3K just so their owners can shoot their weapons in Quake XXXIV 3/1000ths of a second faster than their opponents: small."

Maybe if you go and by the latest and greatest Dell, you will spend 3k. If you go to a local computer store and have them build you a mid range computer for gaming, you will pay less than 1k and have a very decent gaming PC. Remember, you don't have to go out and buy a monitor, speakers, printer, mouse, keyboard, USB devices every time you want to get a new PC. You could build it yourself and save even more money than from a local computer store. I used to do this. These days , I would rather pay a few extra bucks to have someone else build me a PC with the parts that I want.

[Crispy]

"Why yes, it was an IBM drive."

So what. I have had a Western Digital and a Maxtor hard drive crashes. All hardrives have the potential to have a head crash or other failure.

[Crispy]

Where did you get that pic? Is there a 1280x1024 and/or 800x600 version?

[Paleo Conservative]

I might add that I have never had so few problems upgrading an operating system when going from Windows NT to Windows 2000. Every other "upgrade" I tried with other operating systems seemed to create more problems than it solved.