[Iron Lung Ryan]

I just saw this article on google news. under the heading MS reveals Longhorn features.

http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,116005,00.asp

The funny thing is that this OS won't come out until 2006, and the "new features" they brag about are already in OSX with bluetooth / address book / iCal / iChat / iSync. And you know that whenever Lonhorn is released these features will be implemented so poorly it will be too hard to set up, and either be too in your way or go unused.

I wish more people knew how great OSX already is and would free themselves from XP slavery.

[mdc]

"As a result, the company is asking cell phone manufacturers to begin implementing the necessary changes now to make their products play well with Longhorn later."

what does that mean? is bluetooth not good enough? it has to be microsoft-bluetooth?

[chabig]

Embrace and extend, my friend...

[gorickey]

I like OS X better than Windows...

Yep, I do.

[angelmb]

Originally posted by chabig:
Embrace and extend, my friend...

Indeed, I saw today (first time for me), a home samsung dvd player 'designed for windows media'

[RooneyX]

Don't underestimate Longhorn.....it'll run Doom 3 at 300FPS.

[Krypton]

Originally posted by angelmb:
Indeed, I saw today (first time for me), a home samsung dvd player 'designed for windows media'

Hehe I saw an advert today for the exact same player...standards my arse

[-Q-]

Originally posted by angelmb:
Indeed, I saw today (first time for me), a home samsung dvd player 'designed for windows media'

Well, I can rule out Samsung as a purchase option.

[itai195]

Originally posted by Krypton:
Hehe I saw an advert today for the exact same player...standards my arse

I think they're in the process of making WMA an official standard, though I don't recall what standards body is handling it.

That said, I'm unfamiliar with what these WMA enabled DVD players do, but if they let you play data CDs containing protected WMA files, Apple needs to start doing the same thing...

[JasonQG]

Originally posted by angelmb:
Indeed, I saw today (first time for me), a home samsung dvd player 'designed for windows media'

For now, Windows Media is the only way to get HD DVD content. It's not important to most people, but for those of us with HDTV sets, it's very cool. I don't know if that's what you saw, though.

[ryju]

Originally posted by RooneyX:
Don't underestimate Longhorn.....it'll run Doom 3 at 300FPS.

I'll take ten!!

[discotronic]

I didn't see this article posted anywhere on the forums. If it has been I apologize:

http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5207...l?tag=nefd.top

It looks like Longhorn is going to be a bigger resource hog than OSX. At least with OSX I can still enjoy the GUI for most most part even on my iMac 350. Granted it doesn't have QE but the GUI is still there. It looks like Windows users won't have much of a choice when it comes to older hardware. Back to the GUI of Win 2000. I'll keep OSX.

[Graymalkin]

Originally posted by ryju:
I'll take ten!!

I was just reading the other day Longhorn is going to require something like a 4GHz processor among other things. If that didn't play Doom 3 at 300fps I think there's a lot of EEs at Intel and AMD that would end up sticking their heads in the ingot heaters.

[drmcnutt]

Originally posted by discotronic:
I didn't see this article posted anywhere on the forums. If it has been I apologize:

http://news.com.com/2100-1016_3-5207...l?tag=nefd.top

It looks like Longhorn is going to be a bigger resource hog than OSX. At least with OSX I can still enjoy the GUI for most most part even on my iMac 350. Granted it doesn't have QE but the GUI is still there. It looks like Windows users won't have much of a choice when it comes to older hardware. Back to the GUI of Win 2000. I'll keep OSX.

Yeah but what kind of Mac will OSX circa 2006 run on? Do you really believe they'll support old G3's still?

DRM

[mbryda]

Originally posted by RooneyX:
Don't underestimate Longhorn.....it'll run Doom 3 at 300FPS.

NOT The head of MS couldn't get Doom running on the LongDump demo @ WinHEC a couple days ago.

[moonmonkey]

Originally posted by mbryda:
NOT The head of MS couldn't get Doom running on the LongDump demo @ WinHEC a couple days ago.

It was running, its just no one could see it.

[Ryan Becker]

Originally posted by itai195:
That said, I'm unfamiliar with what these WMA enabled DVD players do, but if they let you play data CDs containing protected WMA files, Apple needs to start doing the same thing...

They already do! Well, it's not really Apple's doing, but almost all new DVD players will play CDs with MPGs on them.

-Ryan