Shoutbox

i've had the pleasure with playing with an IE Beta for Longhorn, was pretty basic, and didn't have maximise support so meh,.. i trashed it

was ie 6.5 longhorn beta, i've also seen some longhorn alphas being used

now ie 7 is on the way

Looks nice... I wont be able to run it on my laptop though, I dont meet some of the minimum specs. 

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Microsoft hopes to make Longhorn what it calls a "high performance, robust, and safe operating system."

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dont u find it ironical for microsoft to claim that the new windows (longhorn) is "high performance", while they are asking for higher specs!! WTF!

Guys, these "minimum specs" aren't minimum specs to RUN LONGHORN AT ALL, these are the minimum recommended configuration to run longhorn with "all the bells and whistles" (i.e. the Shader Model 2.0+ based 3d graphical user interface). Longhorn will provide "a Windows XP like experience" on hardware currently running Windows XP. Remember, there are THREE GUI levels: Aero Glass, the top of the line 3d interface, Aero, the cut down 3d interface, and Jade, the 2d, similar-to-windows-xp interface that should run just fine on your Athlon 2100+ or whatever you have.

Yay for parallel x86-32 and x86-64 builds, and instant on technology...