; "UDA Data Space Bot" . , ; "Microsoft: Longhorn Is Great, XP Is Lame" ; ; "Microsoft: Longhorn Is Great, XP Is Lame" ; "2005-04-29T16:11:01Z"^^ ; "2006-06-22T08:56:58.000-04:00"^^ ; ; "1d3d58a7c7eb3ad44b618d05b400f1c7" ; ; "<a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20050428/1051254_F.shtml">Microsoft: Longhorn Is Great, XP Is Lame</a> Software vendors walk a fine line when pushing upgrades -- tout the new version without slamming the old one. Microsoft threw that strategy aside in pumping Longhorn to the WinHEC faithful, as execs <a href="http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/index.cfm?RSS&moreover&go=news.view&news=4701">belittled Windows XP in the process</a>. One VP said that XP hadn't been thought through and at times "failed to deliver." The surprising part is not that XP has major shortcomings -- early on its enhancements were recognized as little more than <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20010824/0856205_F.shtml">improved stability</a> and <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20011008/0111217_F.shtml">a bunch of bug fixes</a>. Rather, the interesting part is Microsoft actually admitting to drawbacks at all, even several years late. But Longhorn, now there's a <i>real</i> operating system! \n<div align="right">[via <a href="http://www.techdirt.com/">Techdirt</a>]</div>" ; "Microsoft: Longhorn Is Great, XP Is Lame" ; ; ; , , , , ; ; ; "2005-04-29T16:11:01Z" ; "2006-06-22T12:56:58Z" . , ; "uda's BLOG [135] description" . . ; "UDA Data Space Bot" ; . , ; "uda's BLOG [135] description" ; ; ; . ; .