OT: New low for Microsoft!

[duncan brown]

Pedro Fernandes Macedo said:
> Dont know.. Given that I've never heard about other projects by m$ ,
> this makes me believe that longhorn will be their server , workstation
> and home solution... But I wonder... why have a server running longhorn
> if you need a super computer just to run the OS ? it should be a
> supercomputer to run the server.. and the OS should work on any cheap
> machine...

exactly.

> If it really is their home solution , then the conspiracy theories kick
> in... Maybe m$ and intel are trying to make us spend money ??? Maybe M$
> and nvidia or ati??? ;)

shhh!  someone might figure out that i show up to work every day so i can
collect my paycheck!

>
> I believe that this will be a eternal problem with windows.. considering
>  the way it was developed , it will always grow bigger and
> power-hungry... no matter what they do , unless they rewrite windows
> from scratch...

one that i will probably never have to deal with outside of my work
environment demanding windows (of course, if i ever start a company we'll
be 100% ms free)

-d

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