Longhorn Still Doesn’t Impress – I’m Getting Scared

Well, I watched the Longhorn portion of the WinHEC keynote, and it left me cold. Frighteningly so, in fact. Chris Pirillo nails my feelings on it perfectly.

I sure hope that I’m wrong, but at this point Longhorn is not high on my list of things to spend money on when it becomes available. My gut feeling is that Longhorn is XP with a coat of lead paint; I expect it to run significantly slower than XP, regardless of all the talk of optimizations.

All of this from a guy that is getting very tired of Windows XP. I sure wish Microsoft would give us something to look forward to, because for anyone that is interested in Longhorn (and that should be any Windows user), there’s still nothing to get excited about. This state of affairs is starting to make me nervous.

Watch the Longhorn demo at WinHEC here.

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