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  Thurrott on Longhorn Alpha
Time: 15:58 EST/20:58 GMT | News Source: ActiveWin.com | Posted By: Robert Stein

I hate mornings. I wish that wasn't the case, but it is. It's especially true after an excruciatingly long day followed by not enough sleep. In the cold light of morning, I'm reflecting a bit on Longhorn 5048. My thoughts are not positive, not positive at all. This is a painful build to have to deal with after a year of waiting, a step back in some ways. I hope Microsoft has surprises up their sleeves. This has the makings of a train wreck. I'll have more on that later.

Anywyay, there's a controversy brewing. The community sites like Neowin were asked yesterday by a "community lead" at Microsoft to take down their screenshots of Longhorn build 5048. This caused a big stir in the press room after the blogger lunch. When someone asked why they were doing this, Chris Pirillo quipped, "because it looks like #$%," which I thought was the appropriate response. Apparently, there is a condition in the EULA preventing people from posting screenshots. Nobody saw anything like that. And I wasn't asked to remove anything yesterday, which caused some grumbling. I'll get to that in a moment, but I'm a bit freaked out that Microsoft wouldn't mention this condition when they asked us to come to WinHEC, or when they handed out the CDs. It would have affected my decision to come.

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#1 By 10557 (70.20.224.53) at 4/27/2005 6:47:03 PM
Thanks, Paul Thurrott. I have translated the beef as the following: "I am a blogger. Hear me roar. And I am a special snowflake."

Seriously, though, a EULA is meant to protect the innocent. It basically means nobody else using a Windows install (for example) can legally hack your Windows install. Ha! It goes both ways.

Plus, why post screenshots when you can upload the bits. An ISO share is much more risky than a few JPEGs.

#2 By 531 (131.107.0.91) at 4/27/2005 6:49:17 PM
I love how when PaulT posts anything positive about Microsoft, he's an "M$ Shill" and has no idea what he's talking about, yet when he posts something negative he becomes a Microsoft expert.

That's weird, huh?

#3 By 12071 (203.206.248.144) at 4/27/2005 7:37:13 PM
#2 No, he is a Microsoft zealot, you obviously haven't read many of his articles! He gets paid to promote and sell Microsoft, that's his job. So when he starts commenting the way he has people stop by and start listening because it's unlike him to criticise Microsoft - he's kicking himself in the foot by criticising them. I mean how bad must it have been for someone in his position, who has such admiration and love and support for Microsoft to admit that he just wasn't impressed in the least (to put mildly).

#4 By 7797 (68.142.9.161) at 4/27/2005 8:00:50 PM
"2:01pm
A clarification. On Tuesday, I noted that "this has the makings of a train wreck." I wasn't referring specifically to build 5048, which is a developer build only, and doesn't show off the final UI. Instead, I was referring to the Longhorn project itself, which is careening so wildly out of control that it may never successfully come to a conclusion."

Sounds pretty bad coming from Paul... now if msucks had posted this it'd be a different story.

This post was edited by tgnb on Wednesday, April 27, 2005 at 20:01.

#5 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 4/27/2005 8:01:10 PM
#5, So true...much in this build, is by intent and design, disabled, or may only be started from the CLI. These facts were and are clear - especially to people like "Snowflake" A.K.A. PT.

He knew better, but was [this is speculation], pissed, because the eye-candy was disabled by default.

While speculation as well, I "think" the build is exactly where it is intended to be and was presented in the proper context to what WinHEC is all about.

For no other reason than to provide one some form of really off entertainment, it was fun to see the MAC OSX guys dump all over this build - for me it simply illustrated how truly unfortunate such thinking is. That made me think a great deal more of Microsoft, because they are sticking to "their" plan and stated roadmap - regardless of what "Snowflake" and others may at this time say. You can't blame "Flake" (just easier to type...) because he really is as many of us are, an enthusiastic user who was disappointed he got the plastic boat rather than the compass he wanted in his Cracker-Jacks. He should have stayed home and spent some time with the kids.

#6 By 23275 (68.17.42.38) at 4/30/2005 5:36:16 AM
Ok, now I am convinced of it - PT has NO CLUE about what Longhorn is, or what it is to be.

I'll take it a bit furher, I no longer think he knows what an OS is, or how it works - much less Longhorn.

Neither PT, or anyone else may look at LH in isolation - the best view of LH is as a platform within a larger frame work that combines both infrastructure and platforms groups and services them with tools and management systems to deliver integrated software experiences that are populated with objects. Instead this twit and plenty of others wax on about a UI that hasn't been shown yet - that was not the intent of the WinHEC. I think I know why....

PT and many others like him do not have to step up and do a dern thing in or with technology [no, blogging your day off does not count]. PT does not have to step up and satisfy user needs - big and small - day after day, night after night...pounding away to try and make some process easier for people, or keep people's and businesses systems running and safe. He's totally removed from that and can't possibly share with any of us any useful perspective.

The words, Dork, Twit, Dolt, and Lamer come to mind for people like that.

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