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Old May 5th, 2004, 02:10 PM

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wow

http://www.microsoft-watch.com/artic...1581842,00.asp

Recommended hardware ... dual-core cpu at 4 to 6Ghz, 2gigs of ram , up to a terabyte of storage...
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This monster will never occupy my computer. Too much eyecandy IMHO.
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Longhorn's Palladium security system could be the thing that pull me out of PC gaming. And don't get me started about console, I hate console games.
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Default Re: OT- Longhorn

Lots of people seem to be unhappy about the system requirements being so high, but you have to take into ccount that this will be released in 2,3 or even 4 years and computer technology advances very fast. Lets look at where we were 4 years ago. Late Pentium II early Pentium III era, computers that were 600-700mhz were blazing, now we have 3.4 GHz Pentium 4's. I don't think those system requirements are unreasonable at all.
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Old May 5th, 2004, 05:04 PM

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I think there is a general rebellion against bloatware in the works, though. Has the OS -- or any other software that has bloated with it like MS Office -- gotten noticably better for all this extra space and CPU power used? No! I'm sticking with Windows 98 for the forseeable future, and plan my next 'upgrade' to be LINUX. And besides the bloat wasting our rapidly advancing computing power, it looks like Longhorn will be another step in putting 'Big Brother Inside' our PCs.

Slashdot: Microsoft Assembles Patent Arsenal for Longhorn
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=0...tid=187&tid=99

It seems that Microsoft is filing a staggering, mind-boggling 10 patents per day as it builds Longhorn. Every eyeblink and twitch of this OS will be patented so they can prevent anyone from making inter-operable software or even programming applications that they don't like -- i.e. something that breaks their DRM system. If you didn't like the 'registration' system for XP watching your hardware and requiring a refresh if you changed too much, you'll really resent Longhorn as it controls what you can do with your own data!
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I'd rather they fixed their old products before trying to sell us new ones.

A system that bloated will inevitably be just full of holes for hackers to exploit... *shudder*

As for this palladium, I've heard that it ties in with gov plans to install backdoors into all legitimate crypto- or to put it another way, to make crypto illegal if you don't hand the government your keys. If that's the case case then it's yet another erosion of civil liberties. Don't like it.

*dogscoff really will get round to installing linux one of these days.
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Frequently competitors/disgruntled employees/whatever release 'mis-information' about MS (or anyone else for that matter) and IMO the source (MicroSoft Watch) has about as much integrity as the National Enquirer. Remember, anyone can put anything they want when they say it comes from 'a reliable source'.

Now if the hardware specs started with 3+ GHz processor (what the high end is today), then it would be a little more believable. MS is already well aware of the user opinions about their hardware requirements. Yes, MS has always 'upped-the-ante' with each new OS, but this is a little far out.

Watch for MS' response soon....
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As for this palladium, I've heard that it ties in with gov plans to install backdoors into all legitimate crypto- or to put it another way, to make crypto illegal if you don't hand the government your keys. If that's the case case then it's yet another erosion of civil liberties. Don't like it.
The only reason the government keeps taking away our rights is because the majority of the poeple don't care. After 9/11, I read about some people that were arrested because they had an anti-Bush poster on their wall. That was it. So when did freedom of speach disappear?
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The "Patriot Act" was when the largest chunk of your freedom in recent memory went away.

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This monster will never occupy my computer. Too much eyecandy IMHO.
eyecandy? Have you seen screenshots or something? I have not managed to find any screenshots.

If you did manage to find screenshots could you post a link? I'm curious to see what the UI looks like.

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