Clemens Vasters on Longhorn - All Comments

Chris Anderson's Challenge

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re: The Capital of Egypt

RobsAGeekTrue — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 10:00:00 GMT

all im gonna say is that microsoft crushes its competition with a much larger outlook on advertising in society, its geeks like you who use apple who make me wanna kill babies, nerd

re: The Capital of Egypt

RobsAGeekTrue — Thu, 09 Dec 2004 09:59:00 GMT

wow rob ur a big geek

re: The Capital of Egypt

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Dec 2004 05:13:00 GMT

IS CAIRO THE CAPITAL OF EGYPT???? THATS ALLLLLLLLL I WANT TO KNOW!!!!!!!!!!!

re: The Capital of Egypt

Anonymous — Mon, 06 Sep 2004 04:42:00 GMT

This has been deleted 3 times from the Longhorn Shakeup - Part Two by Robert. But I will keep reposting until you find a way to ban me from the site.

Correction: Longhorn is NOT getting WinFS before late 2006, and MS don't promise this time when you will get it - 2007 or 2010 or ever. Even if they do, we all know how much it means - they could change the date in a heart bit and blame the complexity, and people like you are still happy to wait for another few years. This is the promised land that may never materialize, and MS have been playing the wait-for-our-revolutionary-product game for 20 years to lock the market with their inferior technology. Longdelayhorn has got Cairo written all over it, are you people really that dumb to see it?

Mac OS X already has system-wide realtime search for years, and Tiger is coming early next year (maybe as early as January, knowing that Apple tend to over deliver these days) and would simply make search much better. Spotlight is based on relational database, and who cares exactly how the file system store things as long as users can find them fast?

My understanding is even MS has given up the idea to design a brand new file system, so WinFS is no more than some sort of database service on top of NTFS - not so revolutionary after all, but they still can't deliver it in another 2 years. WTF are they doing with that $60 billion cash pile and tens of thousands of so called "raw talents"? It just makes me sick every time when those Microsofties call each other cool or smart, where is the fucking evidence?

MS is 5x bigger than Apple in head count, 10x in cash, 20x in market share, 30x in market value. Amazingly, it can't deliver a new fucking OS edition in 5 years without cutting features, while Apple has managed to do it every year. More incredibly, most (at least 60%) Apple engineers are busy with hardware (Xserve G5, Xserve RAID, Power Mac G5, PowerBook, iMac, iBook, eMac, iSight, iPod) and industrial design, and somehow they still manage to produce more and better software than the biggest software maker. Don't believe me? Take a look at http://www.apple.com/software/ and tell me when has MS made anything as remotely sophisticated and elegant as DVD Studio Pro / Final Cut Pro / Logic Pro / Motion / Shake, or even something as simple as iChat or GarageBand? Sorry, Word doesn't count - it's just a boring and complicated text editor.

By the way, enjoy your time at Google, Joe. It's smart to jump a sinking ship like Longhorn.

re: The Capital of Egypt

Lynn EriksenT — Wed, 01 Sep 2004 00:23:00 GMT

Clemens, you raise a good point.

Cario was not a 'release of technologies', it was a failure. The Oct. PDC build is the closest that MS has ever gotten to Cario - and it's quite a feet given that it was built a round a totally different programing archatechture.

If the Client that will most likely ship in 2008 contains WinFS - that'll meet the orrigional Cario specs.

Cario was a good idea - that's why they've not given up on it.

re: Chris Anderson's Challenge

Anonymous — Mon, 17 May 2004 23:10:00 GMT

I hope you like widgets!

Design for Distributed Computing

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re: Chris Anderson's Challenge

Anonymous — Sat, 15 May 2004 07:24:00 GMT

That will be a hard one. Not much you can do with Longhorn as it is right now.

Design for Distributed Computing

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re: Longhorn In Budapest: The relevance of Indigo today

Dave Donaldso — Sat, 31 Jan 2004 02:42:00 GMT

Interesting that you're finding a whole set of developers w/out any real distributed computing experience. This set of developers runs a very high risk in getting left way behind when things like Indigo do arrive. I've been designing and building distributed apps for several years and am very much looking forward to the things that Indigo can/will provide.

re: Indigo: The evolution of the in-memory message

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jan 2004 21:21:00 GMT

Meh, I have nothing negatiev to say about the site's load times. It's the same "faster than a drink of coffee" that it was before the outage.

Take Outs: Blogsurf findings on a snowy Sunday

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