Longhorn has a name
This is all over the place, but Microsoft announced that Longhorn will be branded “Windows Vista”. *yawn* Can we be done with this idiotic name/version march and go back to meaningful release numbers?
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Alan Gutierrez on 27 Jul 2005 at 4:57 pm #
Ryan
Did you check this out?
http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001784.html
Switched two years ago, myself? Why go back? Apple and Intel are going to spell the end of the Windows desktop.
Ryan on 27 Jul 2005 at 5:50 pm #
I hadn’t seen that.. very nice. Hugh is a smart man. I don’t think it’ll be the end of Windows on the desktop, but it will certainly make people like me think again.
I have nothing against Apple, but I really wish they would have ported to other hardware. OS X on a homebrew machine sounds reeeealy nice.
Unfortunately, for now, I can’t game on a Mac. Sure, that’s a simple reason, but I like to game when I have the time. I can’t play BF2 on OS X. At least not yet. I also can’t build my own machines. Those two things keep me off Mac.
Alan Gutierrez on 27 Jul 2005 at 6:01 pm #
Have you read about what Cringely has been saying about the Intel inside Apple? He’s been on about it for a while.
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20050721.html
Ryan on 27 Jul 2005 at 7:38 pm #
I can’t keep up with him anymore. He’s starting to sound like a well-read Dvorak; interesting reading, until you dig a little bit.
iVideo; sure, why not. Everyone will have a download movie service in a year. Xbox Office? Not likely. Apple and Intel merging? A wet dream for Jobs. Cringely has been drinking too much of the Kool-Aid that the Mac zealots are passing out.