New low for Microsoft

[Scott B. DeVries]

The current alpha version of Windows Longhorn that is being released 
this week the Microsoft hardware conference is their home / workstation 
(client-side) solution.  According to articles on www.microsoft-
watch.com, the "recommended" requirements are in the neighborhood of a 
4 GHz CPU with 2 GB of RAM and a 256 MB graphics card, which is one of 
the main reasons that it'll be 2006 at least before this is released.

There will also be a server version of Longhorn, which is slated for 
2007 or 2008 last I heard (similar to Windows XP followed by Win Server 
2003).  If those hardware requirements are accurate, then God only 
knows what kind of a supercomputer you'll need to run the server 
version.

Perhaps this will get budget-constrained Windows network admins to 
start looking to non-Windows (i.e. penguin-flavor) alternative 
operating systems for client PC's.....



Scott B. DeVries
DrFizzix at mash4077.biz



>>>>>> duncan brown wrote >>>>>>>
 
i'm not going to respond to your entire email bit by bit, as you were
bringing up SUPER-power user and server scenarios) and isn't that what 
longhorn is supposed to be for?  normal usage?  or is longhorn their 
server and workstation AND home solution?

  
> >
Dont know.. Given that I've never heard about other projects by MS, 
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...
 
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??? ;)


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...