Tech: MS to cut features from Longhorn (to meet release date)

lol

 

if only it was that cheap($150=£83 but over here XP pro sold for £150 or $268)

 

I have to say that I've always been happy with Windows. They all have their moments, but in general, they have been good to me and to be honest, another OS is fine by me.

However, I would prefer them to wait and make the OS better, rather than release early and supply dozens of fixes within the first week .

 

I guess I'll have to wait untill I can get a corperate edition copy at a lan party.

When there is a virus which will install it's self onto a machine that is online, without any error on your part (other than trusting a MS product). I think that even a person that couldn't write a single line of C++ has room to complain about crappy security.

 

Catching every bug in every line of code is very hard indeed even for experienced C++ programmers. Windows is a horrible combination of being an exceedingly complex entity with near limitless control paths and hundreds of millions of testers that explore all those control paths

 

lol i wonder why people hated the Windows 2000 source when it was leaked

 

Actually they didn't. Quite a few anonymous people (for obvious reasons) commended that on the whole it was good code. The fact is in JADS post: there are always bugs that you're NOT going to find in testing that a few hundred million people ARE going to find.

 

If you want to get metaphorical and conspiracy-theory-ish about the name Avalon, its also the name for the representation of an intelligent "Operating System" (I won't say what relevance that has here or I will spoil a great series. Read the book - its a godlike read for anyone who digs computers anyway)