Re: Two hours lasting Windows Longhorn beta test

From: Perfect Reign (theperfectreign_at_yahoo.com)
Date: 03/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 04:36:02 -0800

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 21:13:26 +0000, Kaoru Saotome donned fireproof
underwear and scratched on the wall:

> Sorry it`s a bit long here is abstract:
> - this is my personal test of a new Longhorn beta downloaded from
> newsgroups this week (4171 i think)
> - installer has problems with mice detection
> - GUI has better effects, explorer looks nicer, feels like it runs bit
> faster, some things are polished but the improvement against XP is
> quite small
> - two ideas "stolen" from KDE and Gnome
> - nforce2 chipset devices and an USB HP 3325 printer - no drivers
> available
> - incompatibility with windows xp driver installers from nvidia
>
>

In other words - SOS. Right?

After getting all excited about the NT 5.0 beta2 that I was sent back in
'99, I installed it and ran it for a few days. Very quickly I realized
there was not much included to make me want it over NT 4. When they
rebranded it Windows 2000, I just laughed.

I'm still waiting for Cairo... 

-- 
kai - www.perfectreign.com
kai@yoda:~> format a:
Error: The DOS concept of formatting disk media is screwed.

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