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Longhorn could be tough sell for Microsoft

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Shiver:
The system requirements are ridiculous. Like MS software isn't already bloated enough, they obviously need to add some more. What is it? 3D graphics in the desktop? Pixel shader enhanced version of Clippy popping up to "help" your work up in Word?

Every time the hardware manufacturers make improvements, MS negates that all by wasting system resources to useless crap. For some reason, I doubt there's much more to see besides that. Except features stolen from other software marketed as new revolutionary innovations.

Refalm:
Remember Windows 95? Windows 95 was better than Windows 3.1, had more features and a rediculously high system requirement set.
Back then, there was an operating system that was better, faster, easier to use, with more features and with lower system requirements compared to Windows 95.
Yes, you guessed right: BeOS. And there was the Macintosh too, of course.

But, people bought Windows 95. Why?
Because Compaq, Packerd Bell, etc. pre-installed Windows 95. Everyone learned how to operate that system, and people all over the world got very much used to it.
This was Microsoft's doing, because they left the computer builders with a choice: either sell bundled only with Windows or lose our support contracts.

And with American law that gives the big shots of the corperate world absolute freedom, nothing was done about this act of criminalism.

Although nowdays, Linux is a better and cheaper choice, and is backed by companies such as IBM and Novell, we can only hope that the computer builders will make the sensible choice.

Aloone_Jonez:
Most of the people I know who aren't computer geeks are happy with their hardware. I think the minimum requirements even for most modern Linux distros are far too high. Yes I know you can run a modern Linux distro on 16MB of RAM if you know what you're doing. But most people don't know what they're doing so the go for Fedora, Mandrake, Linspire etc. and use the default configurations.

But I don't really believe this, why the fuck would anyone bother to buy a new PC just to run Longhorn?

I think most software won't require longhorn anyway, as most 3rd party software will run on Windows 2000 nowadays. If anything Longhorn might just encourage software developers to require XP and thus boost XP sales.

cahult:
Nowadays, companies like HP and Dell don

Aloone_Jonez:
Those companies have ver lucretive deals with Microsoft, if Dell suddenly stopped selling PCs with Windows OEM install then people would just buy from one of their competitors. What else do you think the consumers would do, buy a blank PC and install Linux/BSD/BeOS on it or go somewhere else and buy one with Windows?

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