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[SixApes]

I recently downloaded Longhorn(build 4074) to see how the project was coming along. It was in ISO/DVD format. This is the first Distro of windows that I know to be built for DVD media. More isnt always better. I burnt it to a disc, and installed it on my backup system. The boot sequence didnt seem to be much faster than XP, just more on screen eye candy... The desktop looks remarkably like the mac os x. My concern wasn't in its appearance, however, if I had been judging by the looks I would say alot of things were mimics of other OS's. I read some of the technical documentation on the DVD. Some of the technical rambling were beyond my understanding, but what I could gather was a strong dependancy on .NET frameworking. So the real test came, yea, you know what it is..... GAMES.

I tried a slew of games, 30 plus on the system. 3 of those 30 ran error free, others had bootup problems and serious crashes wich led to a complete reboot 80% of the time.

What games ran? More recent titles such as Morrowind, Halo 2, and you guessed it, Dungeon Seige. The rest of the games as I said before ran slugish if at all. Isnt is bizzare that the only games that ran on it smoothly without error were title with Microsoft lties. Morrowind was realeased on X-Box, as with Halo 2. Dungeon Seige is a Microsoft product as well. .....

From what I've read this OS is mostly a new build. Not much has been taken from previous source. That means more compatability problems for dedicated windows users. Why build from scratch when source for "stable" OS's allready exist?

And if linux is so "problematic", as some might say, why is M$ spending so much time and effort to devel their own Linux Desktop......

Some interesting articles for you all to flame about LOL

http://software.itmanagersjournal.com/
http://www.mslinux.org/