On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 15:31, John Wilson wrote: > On August 27, 2004 04:28 am, Lanman wrote: > > <seriously snipped!> > > > <viciously and heartlessly snipped> > > Now for my 2 cents,... > > > > Folks, if you think SP2 is gonna sway a lot of Microsoft users over to > > Linux, just wait until Microsoft releases LongHorn! There's gonna be a > > huge groundswell of people switching to linux when that happens! > > > > Lanman > > That's if and when Longhorn ever see's the light of day. The longer it's > delayed the more it starts to sound like XP The Next Generation. > > http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1104_2-5326850.html > > A lot of it's alleged improvements are gonna be slipstreamed into XP by > Christmas this year so that M$ actually has something new to sell. And, if > ZDNet is to be believed (and it can't be always) the wonderful new WinFS file > system will be released as beta with Longhorn in 2006/2007 or whenever. > > Another improvement to computiing by those famous vendors of high quality > vapourware...Steve Gates and Bill Balmer...or is it Bill Gates and Steve > Balmer, I can never get that right :) > > ttfn > > John
Same old story, same old song and dance. Vapourware. Marketing. Promises that won't get kept. MS Licensing 6.0; the biggest lie. A new product every two years. Makes you wonder how many corporate entities paid out for that one... -- stephen kuhn - proprietor __________________________________________________________________ illawarra computer services :: a kuhn media australia venture http://kma.0catch.com :: mobile 0410.728.389 Serving Sydney, The Illawarra, South Coast and Rural NSW __________________________________________________________________ * This message was composed on a 100% Microsoft free computer * We expressly refuse to utilise Microsoft DRM encoded documents __________________________________________________________________ Mandrake GNU/Linux 10.0 OE/Kernel 2.6.3-7/ No Viruses here. You have a message from the operator.
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