Re: Two hours lasting Windows Longhorn beta test

From: Kaoru Saotome (Kaoru_at_somewhere.org)
Date: 03/12/05 

Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 19:28:14 GMT

On Sat, 12 Mar 2005 04:36:02 -0800, Perfect Reign
<theperfectreign@yahoo.com> wrote:

>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...

Right. This Longhorn thing isnt exactly that kind of "bomb" one would
expect. Since there are no suitable drivers for it I am not going to
fiddle with it anymore. Verdict for me: useless! 

--
KS

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