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All I know is that Google Labs didn't make a copy of the Start menu.

It still wasn't a copy of the start menu.

squish wrote:

Actually its named after a bar at the bottom of Whistler mountain.

Okay, so they named it after a bar at some mountain...yet they still used the neutered cow for the logo?

http://forkweb.centralfilmes.com/programas/longhorn.jpg

suuuure....

So what do you want them to use as a logo?  A picture of a tavern?  You don't suppose that the Longhorn bar might possibly have some association to *gasp* a longhorn do you?

In all seriousness everyone who attacks the longhorn codename is just looking for another reason to attack Microsoft.  I'm certainly not a Microsofty, but really...I think Longhorn is a perfectly fine codename.

I just wonder how well something named "Longhorn" will sell in places like Bryant-College Station and the entire state of Oklahoma. Apple should be making some aggressive moves in those parts. And "Tiger" is a natural in Columbia, MO, Princeton, etc.

Paul Thurrott is a dink.

Posted with the wrong topic so I moved it to the "Another year another $ post"

Last edited by Tomacorno (2005-04-14 10:54 am)

Vokbain wrote:

Paul Thurrott is a dink.

Really? I always thought of him more as an asswipe. Oh well, to each their own...

Marc wrote:

sosumi wrote:

Of course, Longhorn is not nearly as far along as Tiger so it's not technically fair to compare something that's 1.5 years+ from release to something coming out in less than a month.

exactly, I dont know why people compare the two, I mean a longhorn to 10.5 could be fair

Because they are supposedly going to have roughly the same major feature set when they are both released. A better comparison would be 10.4 and Longhorn in 2 years.

Longhorn still looks just like XP with a new theme, it's butt ugly and I see no innovation what so ever.
I do see lots of copying of other peoples features though.
If this is all they are going to bring to the table after all that time, well shame on them.

This doesn't directly apply to the title of this thread, but I just did some work on the Windows XP Pro platform, and although I can't really say anything technically bad about it, I don't think you can compare the experience of using Mac OS vs. Windows. Mac is all about the experience, and if Longhorn actually comes out and accomplishes the experience factor, it will earn points while at the same time follow Apple's lead, once again.

Right now, using a Mac is fluid and enjoyable, which I don't think has ever been a design goal in making any version of Windows. Enjoyable to use a computer? Not in the scope of MS. However, Mac OS may only seem that way because there is this drab and boring OS on most of the computers in the world to compare it to.

Last edited by knobtwirler (2005-04-16 2:38 pm)

Egress wrote:

The New Guy wrote:

All I know is that Google Labs didn't make a copy of the Start menu.

It's not exactly the Dock, either. For that matter, it's vaguely similar to the KDE or Gnome panels, as well.

It's clearly an homage to the dock (as the little poem at the bottom of the page indicates), as well as the fact the URL is "GoogleX". I'm sure they could have made it more Dock-like though...

HackerJax wrote:

duke91 wrote:

Longhorn still looks just like XP with a new theme, it's butt ugly and I see no innovation what so ever.
I do see lots of copying of other peoples features though.
If this is all they are going to bring to the table after all that time, well shame on them.

Thats because they have disabled aero in the alphas that have been released and put the slate theme as the enabled default.

Its an alpha dudes. Not much to compare at this time. Wait until a final release and then see where its at.

Than why are they making such a big deal out of this if it has nothing to show, other than theories of what they may put in there.
If it is an Alpha it should not be drummed up like it is.
It just sounds like the propaganda machine is in full swing with actually nothing to show besides promises and vapor.

duke91 wrote:

HackerJax wrote:

duke91 wrote:

Longhorn still looks just like XP with a new theme, it's butt ugly and I see no innovation what so ever.
I do see lots of copying of other peoples features though.
If this is all they are going to bring to the table after all that time, well shame on them.

Thats because they have disabled aero in the alphas that have been released and put the slate theme as the enabled default.

Its an alpha dudes. Not much to compare at this time. Wait until a final release and then see where its at.

Than why are they making such a big deal out of this if it has nothing to show, other than theories of what they may put in there.
If it is an Alpha it should not be drummed up like it is.
It just sounds like the propaganda machine is in full swing with actually nothing to show besides promises and vapor.

The propoganda machine is in full swing! Big time!

  All the cool stuff they have shown at WinHEC and the developer conferences. They just haven't released that stuff for us to play with yet