Re: New low for Microsoft

If anyone remembers, Windows XP beta also required a super computer to run, which it doesnt now. They'll get it fine tuned by the time RC1 rolls out, thought I would imagine 512MB of memory will be the minimum requirement. (KDE 3.2 floats real nicely with 512MB or memory also)

Scott B. DeVries wrote:

The current alpha version of Windows Longhorn that is being released this week the Microsoft hardware conference is their home / workstation (client-side) solution. According to articles on www.microsoft-
watch.com, the "recommended" requirements are in the neighborhood of a 4 GHz CPU with 2 GB of RAM and a 256 MB graphics card, which is one of the main reasons that it'll be 2006 at least before this is released.

There will also be a server version of Longhorn, which is slated for 2007 or 2008 last I heard (similar to Windows XP followed by Win Server 2003). If those hardware requirements are accurate, then God only knows what kind of a supercomputer you'll need to run the server version.

Perhaps this will get budget-constrained Windows network admins to start looking to non-Windows (i.e. penguin-flavor) alternative operating systems for client PC's.....

Scott B. DeVries
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