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    <a href = "http://www.microsoft-watch.com/article2/0,1995,1581842,00.asp">Microsoft is expected to recommend that the "average" Longhorn PC feature a dual-core CPU running at 4 to 6GHz; a minimum of 2 gigs of RAM; up to a terabyte of storage; a 1 Gbit, built-in, Ethernet-wired port and an 802.11g wireless link; and a graphics processor that runs three times faster than those on the market today.</a>

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    Forget the article, I'm more interested in the special offer on the page:



    What an offer!
    "As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless,
    uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"

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    They'll do that if they don't want to sell the damn thing. By the time of its official release (two years from now?) most computer users won't have those specs in their computers yet.

    Not that I care. By then I won't be using Windows much, if at all.

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    I've also heard it's going to be completely NON backwards-compatible. Anyone hear something along those lines?


    and I'm hopefully going to have an IT job by then, so I'll probablly need to get it to be familiar with it

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    Sounds like a plan. I expect it to cost 5 grand?

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    <i>They'll do that if they don't want to sell the damn thing. By the time of its official release (two years from now?) most computer users won't have those specs in their computers yet.</i> --Yamaneko

    They've done it with every single release of Windows. I predict that people will (again) say "O NOE MY PUTERS 2 SLOE AN WINDOZE NEDES MOER RAMS SO IT MUST BE MUCH MOER TEN TIEMS BETTAR TAHN TEH OLD VARSHUNS OF WINDOZE SINS IT MUST HAEV AL KINDSA FEETURS NOW SO IL BY AN NEW PUTER WOOOOOO TAEK MY MONIES MS", and go buy a new computer, and pay a couple hundred dollars for a new version of Windows which is exactly like the old versions except with added fluff and bloat and bugs and security features which treat you like a criminal. And when it sucks, people will vaguely wonder why, and wait for the next version.

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    [q="Dr Unne"]"O NOE MY PUTERS 2 SLOE AN WINDOZE NEDES MOER RAMS SO IT MUST BE MUCH MOER TEN TIEMS BETTAR TAHN TEH OLD VARSHUNS OF WINDOZE SINS IT MUST HAEV AL KINDSA FEETURS NOW SO IL BY AN NEW PUTER WOOOOOO TAEK MY MONIES MS", [/q]

    Microsoft is so evil, it can even make Unne talk n00bish.
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    This thread needs to be archived just because of Dr Unne's noob speak.

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    This is the second time Unne has done this in 2004. I'm impressed and shocked.
    "As the days go by, we face the increasing inevitability that we are alone in a godless,
    uninhabited, hostile and meaningless universe. Still, you've got to laugh, haven't you?"

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    Isn't that one of the signs of the Apocalypse?
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    Ok, im gona be a linux man, now.

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    Gentoo Linux's system requirements are pretty steep, but nowhere as horrific as Longhorn's.

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    Yams, can Gentoo run of 600mhz system?

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    Who cares if Unne is making fun of people?

    The real issue here is how much Bill Gates stands to profit from this venture.

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    What?
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