Re: Two hours lasting Windows Longhorn beta test

From: Andrew (yogig_at_nospam.hotmail.com)
Date: 03/14/05

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    Perfect Reign 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...
    >

    Cairo was the win95 shell.
    Windows 2000 was called Memphis I think (if I remember correctly.)
    XP was Whistler.

    I remember the day we shipped W2K, that may have been the best party
    ever at MS. They even had go-carts setup for us to race in the
    underground parking lots. I must've drank 1/2 a bottle of tequila that day.

    The XP release party was outside on the soccer fields. A bunch of
    skydiving employees jumped and landed, there were some bands, etc. Bill
    and Steve gave a speech. My friend Stephan from Germany (on my team)
    gave blood that morning and by about 1pm was passed out. Note to self:
      Never give blood, then drink yards of beer! 

    -- 
Andrew
Ex-MSFT and loving life
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