Longhorn Beta

[zackepceo]

My boss got it at WinHEC. She was nice enough to send it to me. It's installing in VPC now. Notable issues so far is that it will not partition new disks and that the installer isn't very flexable.

[SamuraiCatJB]

so it's normal windows so far? ;) ;) :p :p

[zackepceo]

It's been at 15-25 minutes now for over an hour, so it's definately Windows!

[SamuraiCatJB]

them's microsoft minutes....

[zackepceo]

Redmond float time..

[JackAxe]

Does this mean MS can freeze time, because I've had some of my past Windows Installations freeze.

Yes, lame on my part. :)

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[ungottable]

WOW!!! If it freezes time, then it will have Tiger blown out of the water!! :p
J/K!!

-ungottable

[zackepceo]

Finally! It's on a.. starting setup page?!?! What was I just doing?
:O

And it says it may take up to an hour.. it's a good thing that I'm leaving it on all night.

[JackAxe]

You Windozed off. Even more lamedom on my part. :p


Yeah, Tiger doesn't have any cool features like freezing time, but it did make my secondary drive disappear for a few hours. :)

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[SamuraiCatJB]

Finally! It's on a.. starting setup page?!?! What was I just doing?
:O

And it says it may take up to an hour.. it's a good thing that I'm leaving it on all night.

morning time... it should be down to 15 minutes... ;) :p

[JackAxe]

15 minutes is tooooo generous, I'm guessing 45 minutes.

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[Kevin Flansburg]

I installed alpha in 45 minutes about 6 months ago, wasnt to bad. I liked the GUI Installer

[JackAxe]

A GUI installer would bug me, because of the stickiness. :p *Yes, even more lamedom.*

[jjesusfreak01]

Yeah, whats really great is when you start installing it, hit the final click, and leave, just to find out hours later that you needed to click one more button to start the installation.

[iboar]

I think Bill Gates's philosophy is that you can never have too many buttons to push or questions to answer.
Click OK to delete the file. Click OK.
Are you sure you want to delete the file? Click OK.
Are you really sure you want to delete the file? Click OK.
Are you really really sure you want to delete the file? Click OK.
Ad Nauseum!

[jjesusfreak01]

I think Bill Gates's philosophy is that you can never have too many buttons to push or questions to answer.
Click OK to delete the file. Click OK.
Are you sure you want to delete the file? Click OK.
Are you really sure you want to delete the file? Click OK.
Are you really really sure you want to delete the file? Click OK.
Ad Nauseum!

Ad infinitum...

Are you (really * x # clicks) sure you want to delete this file.

DELETE

You have not specified a file to delete, the system will now format the hard drive.

[iboar]

And you would think that after nearly 20 years of Windows OSes that MS would have been able to develop and accurate timer. Even with Win XP Pro I see the "time remaining" jump wildly, sometimes increasing and sometimes decreasing, but never even close to the actual time needed to finish the task! :D I think one of the earlier threads called it "Redmond float time". I wish they would just go back to the old DOS method of displaying how many bytes have loaded divided by total bytes, that is, give the percentage done and let us estimate how long it will take because they obviously don't know. :p

[Kevin Flansburg]

Well at first when the guy told me that it was GUI I thought that it would be teribble running of a cd especialy with no previous operating system to provide video drivers, but i was suprised, I had no truble at all, of course I spent all of the 45 minutes in the same room reading up on the architecture of it.

[zackepceo]

Good news everyone! Longhorn finally just finished installing, only to crash.

[SamuraiCatJB]

In other words works like a microsoft charm! :)

[JackAxe]

You used works and Microsft in a sentence, isn't that some kind of oxymoron. :)

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