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MS Says "PLEASE HATE LONGHORN"
Scoble, a rather renowned blogger (and one I personally don’t enjoy reading); has made quite the earth-shattering annoouncement: we want you to hate longhorn.
For those who aren’t aware, LongHorn is the ‘nowhere near ready’ next version of Windows. MS is doing two very unusual things, especially for MS, in this process. First, it is releasing a build of LongHorn to the public to play with. Second, it is inviting not just critiques but open hate. Publicly. On weblogs. Fascinating.
So, all you MS haters out there. I know you read this. Hell, I’ve debated with hundreds of you. Please vent at them. It may be the only time they’ll ever listen.
So, here’s Scoble’s LongHorn Blog.
The build should be released today. I’m not sure exactly how it’ll be released, but I’m hoping it’s a true public release. Watch that space, or watch this space, and let’s rip LongHorn a serious new one.
Oh, and spread the word. I, for one, AM sick of crappy software from MS.
There are also dozens more LongHorn blogs at LongHornBlogs.com. Read! :)
UPDATE: Just a quick update that this is mainly open to developers at the PDC conference. Still, I’m going to start posting thoughts on the various LongHorn blogs, if only because for once MS is being more open than I’ve seen any company be in the development phase, with the possible (read: possible) exception of Open Source projects.
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about 8 years ago
Well, I can’t say I’m an MS hater, but I am not a diehard either. That being said, here’s why I’ll hate Longhorn: Feeping Creaturism. I have no love for feature bloat.
I stopped upgrading at Windows 2000 and Office 2000. Why? because Microsoft’s new offerings do not provide enhanced security, better performance, or more stability. Windows XP to me represents a spiffier UI and no real beneficial enhancements that I could not get from existing third-party tools.
From what I’ve read I also may want to delay my jumping onto the .NET bandwagon, as it looks like MS is getting ready to redesign the bandwagon anyway.
about 8 years ago
Hi Mike, XP boasts many secrutiy, performance and stability enhancements. 2K was great, but I’m very happy with our switch to XP.
Likewise with .NET, the new engine, development environment, framework and ASP.NET deployments don’t affect existing development at all, so learning it now won’t affect the ‘bandwagon’ at all :)
You’re free to not use MS stuff, I don’t mind, but XP/longhorn/.NET do seem to be steps in the right direction.
about 8 years ago
Oh, MS products will continue to have a place in my deployments for some time to come, I still just wish there would be a stronger focus on core requirements rather than features, that’s all. I am sure I will eventually find myself using .NET, XP, and even Longhorn, because I do not want to find my skills stagnating too much.
about 8 years ago
Don’t worry, I agree that ‘features’ are sometimes just for show, but at the same time we are seeing a progressive evolution in all the major OS’s in what is essentially the same direction.
I don’t see any of the OS’s trimming functions or features, really, and that saddens me.
Someone, somewhere, proposed the idea of an OS ‘lite’ where you could pay a minimal fee and then pay to turn on each ‘feature’ that you actually needed.
I like that idea, not just for OS’s but for Office and software as well.