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Dark Knife
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Anyone else scared/skeptical?<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=s ... <!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br>Has anyone heard anything about the Microsoft "Longhorn" OS or is it just a ploy to piss off and make look sad those of us who still are running on 98? <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub141.ezboard.com/bxmenclan.sho ... knife>Dark Knife</A> at: 10/28/03 12:21 pm<br></i>
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Re: Longhorn

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It's real. Not ready yet, but it's real. <p></p><i></i>
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I'm pretty ambivalent about it myself. I like the filesystem idea they're cooking up, but that's about it. <p></p><i></i>
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There are certainly things to like about it - but it's really just a SQL database for your NTFS filesystem. <br><br>From what I've read, the filesystem is a cool new thing that may change the way we use our desktops ("OOh, metadata!"), and the new graphics system, Aurora(?). Goodbye, GDI? <br><br>It'll be interesting, but I'm reserving judgement. There's still enough things I don't like about XP that I run most of my boxen on Win2K.<br><br>*edit*<br><!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://arstechnica.com/wankerdesk/03q2/longhorn-1.html" target="top">Linkage here.</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub141.ezboard.com/bxmenclan.sho ... ambit>XMEN Gambit</A>&nbsp; <IMG HEIGHT=10 WIDTH=10 SRC="http://www.xmenclan.org/images/x.gif" BORDER=0> at: 10/29/03 8:44 am<br></i>
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