Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
 

lol if i wan gonna get it might just get a shop bought desktop pc

i used to custom build but tbh i dont play as much games i used to.

the ironic thing is it prob wont cost much more to buy a whole new pc with the windows on it than to buy windows alone.

Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
 

I voted "no"!

Linux is far better than windows, IMO, and by the time longhorn is actually released, I hope that the linux distributions out there will actually be easier to use, and so will therefore be more accessible to more users than before. :)

I have had SuSE on this PC for about four months now, and only ever use windows for games. Saying that, however, I have got half life and warcraft 3 working from inside linux now, so I use windows even less often :tu:

Microsoft may be a huge corporate empire at the moment, but history has shown that even the biggest empires will fall - I mean, fifty years ago, Stalin ruled Russia, an empire of millions, but 150 years before that, Russia was called Muscovy and it was essentially a bunch of farms with no organisation and got beaten up by the big player of the day... Sweden!

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PS: shouldn't the poll have options for "yes, and it will be a legal copy" / "yes, it will be an evaluation copy" / or just "no" ;)

Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
 

What a bizarre comparison to draw, when was Stalin a corporation?

Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
 

Definately not...

I have XP at home, and use that purely for games.. For all other stuff, I use linux.

I don't have a 64bit Proc, and if I did, I would run Solaris X86 on it....

I personally consider windows to be a liability, is is insecure, and because it is so prevelant, and often used by people with little or no knowledge of computers (i.e. true "users" ) it will always be the platform of choice for hackers, virus writers, etc.

I do use it for games, but if RON, CIVIII HL/HL2/CS etc were ported to linux - I would do away with it forever...

(bear in mind I am a unix techie - therefore I know how to configure/harden unix and unix like operating systems..)

Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
 

yeah, sorry, i found an old history book in my room the other day whilst clearing stuff out ;)

lol, stalin was never a corporation, but my point was that microsoft are pretty much invincible at the moment, but things can change very easily, just like russia went from disorganisation, to a superpower, and now back to disorganisation again. i was just trying to highlight it in a colourful way ;)

external forces are an issue, but internal forces can also be a problem - phenomena such as "groupthink" (where highly intelligent, able, and skilled leaders of powerful groups end up making horrifically bad decisions) have a role to play as well.

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Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
 

Sorry, still not making sense, because Microsoft dominate the market for consumer operating systems, pretty much all other consumer software is geared to work on Windows only, so nothing is going to change quickly, if they're going to lose their crown it'll be a (very) long drawn out process.

Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
 

yeah, that's why i chose russia as an example, 'cos it took like 150 years for a total turnround .. so we will probably have to wait for windows 2100 before the end is even nearly in sight ;)

(that's presuming our species lasts that long, of course!)

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Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
 

This poll/thread should be titled 'use' not 'buy' ...same amount of characters but mean totally different things ;)

Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
 

I wouldn't buy it but I would download it from MSDN when it is released..... ;) ;)

Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
 

If there is any of that TCPA DRM stuff in, then M$ can go and sling their hook 'cos I won't use/pay for something that I don't have control over.

Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
 

yep i would. although i use my mac nearly all the time i would still buy for windows laptop and desktop.

Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
 

Still want to buy longhorn? Make sure you've got a video card that supports SM2.0

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20691

Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
 

Im am subscribed to action pack so will just wait for it to pop through the door, then load when/if someone tells me its got killer features, which at the moment the lack of winFS seems to make it pointless

Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
 

3D Interface? WTF?

I wonder if that would work well...

Re: would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6)
 

Will I buy Longhorn? No. Will it be on my computer? Probably ;)

Or maybe by the time it comes out I'll have a Mini Mac, and become one of those fanboys who constantly harp on about how crap Windows is...