Microsoft: Longhorn Server will be Named Windows Server 200x

Nobody cares. People use Linux or OS X Server (like the army does) for its servers.

Microsoft is dying. OS X totally decimates Windows in nearly every way, and Microsoft stock is totally dead. They're bleeding talent to Google and Apple. Their web efforts are a total failure, and stockholders punished them for wasting even more money on it.

Microsoft's strategy of lamely ripping off everyone else's features and putting out their own third-rate version just plain ran out of steam. People these days actually demand design talent. Vista's ugly-as-hell interface doesn't cut it.

It's not the 90s anymore where people turn the other cheek when Microsoft rips off Apple yet again. The tech press finally caught on. Recycle Bin? It's the MacOS trash can! Copy and paste? That came from MacOS, even the phrase "copy and paste!" File-Edit-View-Window-Help menu layout? Straight rip-off of MacOS!

Windows is nothing more than a bloated hodge-podge of legacy code dating back to 1985, all in an attempt to clone Apple MacOS features.

Hell, you guys are still running "installers" and "uninstallers" to manage your apps, dealing with a registry, installing antivirus/antispyware/firewall software, defragmenting your hard drive, etc. Geez, it's 2006! Get a modern operating system.

Don't you guys get TIRED of wasting all that time and energy babying Windows into working smoothly? Why don't you use an operating system that was just designed to work correctly from the start?

bonch June 14, 2006 (Article Rating: )

Thank goodness. I was almost worrying they would call it "2007 Microsoft Windows Server". Now if only they could get the Office marketing idiots to follow suit.

PatriotB6007 June 14, 2006 (Article Rating: )

bonch, we use Windows because it has a monopoly and there are no other choices.

Oh wait, you say Microsoft is dying. So how close to "dead" do they have to be before they're not a monopoly any more?

PatriotB6007 June 14, 2006 (Article Rating: )

When a tech company becomes irrelevant, it doesn't matter if it has a monopoly today. In five years, the company will be gone. Look at the first 30 years of automobiles.

Stuff like this is why OS X is light years ahead of Windows:
http://phobos.apple.com/WebObjects/MZStore.woa/wa/viewPodcast?id=119110543&s=143441

bonch June 14, 2006 (Article Rating: )

"Nobody cares. People use Linux or OS X Server (like the army does) for its servers."

I take it you're out of work, or you're a free-lancer. I've seen Windows used on a LOT of servers, and i'm not just talking HTTP/FTP. You've got MS-SQL (With a query analyzer that still runs circles around MySQLs), Active Directory, Exchange, Terminal Services, MS Speech Server, Commerce Server, BizTalk Server, and who knows what else. You've also completely left out commercial UNIXs, which is still used moderatly (Excluding some variants, like Solarix, which aren't too common [according to netcraft - ducks]).

"OS X totally decimates Windows in nearly every way"

I love your contradictions. "totally" and "nearly"... beautiful. Can't make up your mind, eh?

"Microsoft stock is totally dead."

Yeah, because when stock is down that must mean it's dead, like back when Apple's was "dead" too. ROFLcopters.

"Their web efforts are a total failure,"

I disagree. The Windows Live search engine gives better results for Windows programming than Google :P. I like being able to type "MSDN [insert api name here]" and not have to wade through garbage finding what i'm looking for.

"Vista's ugly-as-hell interface"

If it's a copy of Mac OS X, I guess Mac OS X is ugly-as-hell too. Oh, you meant rip-off... Well, who cares. Most people disagree with you :). I am one of them. How would you design a GUI for an operating system? Where's your design talent? Based on the way you've designed your troll posts, i'm doubting you have any.

"Windows is nothing more than a bloated hodge-podge of legacy code dating back to 1985"

Wrong on two fronts. Some windows 1.0x code is older than 1985. Secondly, NT came in much later. Windows XP doesn't share the kernel of 9x, if you haven't heard, nor it's crappy collection of ANSI programs. Unicode FTW.

anphanax June 14, 2006 (Article Rating: )

"defragmenting your hard drive"

I never defragment, though I probably should. I have yet to see a file system so perfect it manages never to fragment files. If I recall though, one of the things Windows XP does while it's idle, is some file system clean-up.

"In five years, the company will be gone."

If you believe that, you really are an idiot. Ever heard of SCO Group? My guess is that you think there will be some mass rejection of everything Microsoft in the future. Feel free to call me when Bill Gates starts eating babies and molesting small animals. Until then, they're just another company (just like Apple is).

Off-topic complaint to bonch:
Where is full-screen/theatre mode for the QuickTime plug-in? RealPlayer can do it, Windows Media Player can do it. It's on their right-click context menus. It's MIA for QT.

anphanax June 14, 2006 (Article Rating: )

"ff-topic complaint to bonch:
Where is full-screen/theatre mode for the QuickTime plug-in? RealPlayer can do it, Windows Media Player can do it. It's on their right-click context menus. It's MIA for QT."

You have to realize that Windows Media Player requires a paltry 233Mhz, 64MB of ram and a video card that has 64MB of ram in it to run. To get this magical "Full Screen Mode" you are referring to you'll propbably only need a 1GHz processor with, oh I dunno, 256MB of rama and adecent video card.

How archaic! That's not the way of the future Microsoft. What were you thinking? NOt to mention that WMP also plays DVDs, most all music and video formats, has a fantastic playlist feature, and syncs with pretty much any, non-iPod device that's come out in the past year

QuickTime, on the other hand, has HighDef video. HighDef is great! You can only run it in Windows at 852x480 IF you have a computer with a 2.0GHz processor, 512MB of ram and a 64MB video card. Neat eh? It takes more computing power to run a QT HighDef video than it does to run Windows Vista! And that's not even at full screen!

On a Mac, you can run it at 1280x720 if you have a 1.8Ghz processor, 256MB of ram and a 64MB video card... To get this "nearly full screen" happening on Windows you need a 2.8GHz processor with 512MB or ram and a 64MB video card!

Or if you REALLY wanna go hardcore, you can watch your QuickTIme HighDef videos at 1920x1080 which needs a dual proc or dual core, 2.0GHz, 512MB ram, 128MB video card for Mac or a 3.0GHz, 1 gig ram, 64MB video card setup for Windows!.

And besides palying music and videos and annoying the crap out of unsuspecting Web surfers everywhere, what else does QuickTime do?

Nothing!

What brilliance! What aweseomness! What INNOVATION! Take that Microsoft!

sticknick June 15, 2006 (Article Rating: )

Bonch, Bonch, Bonch, what will we do with you.

Your rants about Microsoft dying are so wrong you must live in your parents basement and never get out. I also suggest telling the people that have fed you this information to clean their iSight cameras, because they must be dusty.

Check out this article (http://news.com.com/Windows+bumps+Unix+as+top+server+OS/2100-1016_3-6041804.html), that makes no mention of OS X, but does mention Unix. In case Safari has a problem rendering the page, here is the gist of it: "Windows narrowly bumped Unix in 2005 to claim the top spot in server sales for the first time".

blahblah1 June 15, 2006 (Article Rating: )

"OS X Server " lol. that's not even worthy of being called a server OS. I have yet to see one deployed anywhere. does it serve photoshop files or something?

guruguru June 15, 2006 (Article Rating: )

""OS X Server " lol. that's not even worthy of being called a server OS. I have yet to see one deployed anywhere. does it serve photoshop files or something?"

Oh, it's just used by the military, that's all. Do a lookup on www.army.mil sometime.


"Where is full-screen/theatre mode for the QuickTime plug-in? RealPlayer can do it, Windows Media Player can do it. It's on their right-click context menus. It's MIA for QT."

100% wrong. iTunes does full-screen just fine. QT is just a codec container format.

This is an article by a Microsoft manager calling Vista broken. Even employees think Vista is a joke. Microsoft has the article removed, but here's the Google cache:
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:OxIU8nS0KaIJ:blogs.msdn.com/philipsu/archive/2006/06/05/617988.aspx+Broke
n+Windows+Theory+philipsu&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1

bonch June 15, 2006 (Article Rating: )