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Original Post: Longhorn hype continues apace
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Scoble quotes another developer who's gone gaga over Longhorn. What these guys need to do is get out more. Here's a few things they might want to answer:
Are graphics still down in the kernel? If so, why? So that we can enjoy full crashes more often? This was right in NT 3.51, and has been wrong ever since. So do the right frelling thing
Can I actually put a bullet point where I want it in Word yet?
Does Word still produce html designed by morons?
Is the window title area still wasting scads of screen space, as it does in XP?
Is Log off/Shutdown still located under 'Start'? Do you have any idea how many users get thrown by that?
Will every update that comes to the OS require a reboot? Get with the program and figure out what modules are,. for goodness sakes
Will the disk defragger in Longhorn actually work, or - like the one in XP - will it spend hours looking at my disk and then give up, having done close to nothing?
I've actually been disappointed in every release of Windows since NT 3.51. Why? Because 3.51 was stable - it ran without crashing, and - at least as I recall - without rot. XP doesn't crash as often as NT 4 did, but it certainly rots after awhile - if I don't reboot after a few days, the whole system slows down. All 9x (and ME) did that, NT 4 did that, and XP does that. 3.51 didn't. As with Word, I suspect that the dev team got bored with a working system and started adding fluff because it was fun.
Here's a tip. I don't care about your new storage model. I don't care about your new API. I don't care about the new L&F. What I'd like to see is apps that aren't actively hostile (the entire Office Suite after Office 97) and an OS that is at least as stable as NT 3.51.
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