would you buy longhorn (windows 2005/6) - Page 2

dragon · 12-10-2004, 19:31

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.

Plonking · 13-10-2004, 13:32

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

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"

Bifta · 13-10-2004, 14:05

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Originally Posted by Plonking

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!

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

zovat · 13-10-2004, 14:12

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..)

Plonking · 13-10-2004, 14:44

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Originally Posted by Bifta

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

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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Bifta · 13-10-2004, 14:47

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.

Plonking · 13-10-2004, 15:00

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Originally Posted by Bifta

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.

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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Caspar · 13-10-2004, 15:34

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

Salu · 13-10-2004, 16:38

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

ntl customer · 13-10-2004, 22:08

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.

purple_smarties · 21-10-2004, 20:36

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

Bifta · 14-01-2005, 16:55

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

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

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Longhorn will also use 3D menus and 3D interfaces and will require at least Shader 2.0 compliant cards, so it will make the graphics card an important part of your PC

Millay · 14-01-2005, 17:41

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

jtwn · 14-01-2005, 17:48

3D Interface? WTF?

I wonder if that would work well...

Tristan · 14-01-2005, 17:49

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...