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 DrFizzix@xxxxxxxxxxxx >>>>>> duncan brown wrote >>>>>>> i'm not going to respond to your entire email bit by bit, as you were bringing up SUPER-power user and server scenarios) and isn't that what longhorn is supposed to be for? normal usage? or is longhorn their server and workstation AND home solution? > > Dont know.. Given that I've never heard about other projects by MS, this makes me believe that longhorn will be their server , workstation and home solution... But I wonder... why have a server running longhorn if you need a super computer just to run the OS ? it should be a supercomputer to run the server.. and the OS should work on any cheap machine... If it really is their home solution , then the conspiracy theories kick in... Maybe m$ and intel are trying to make us spend money ??? Maybe M$ and nvidia or ati??? ;) I believe that this will be a eternal problem with windows.. considering the way it was developed , it will always grow bigger and power-hungry... no matter what they do , unless they rewrite windows from scratch...
