Microsoft: It’s Time To Wrestle Longhorn

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   27 Aug 2004 ~ 12:46am entropy Ugh, one word - FINALLY. There've been, what, 2 updates since I last *cough*tested it. That was 4 or 5 months ago. They haven't even completed Aero, ffs. Granted, it's semi-there in 4074, but you need to trick it. WinFS ... waste. They're betting on super machines for this. They need to refine code, and do a damn good job of it. Before I tweaked the nuts off it, explorer was using ~200 megs of ram ... IDLING. I also find the sidebar, while incredibly useful, more than slightly distracting, but I'm sure that's a matter of time (and no, I don't want to minimize it). I'll be waiting ... but not prepared to fully move to LH if it's so resource-intensive.
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   27 Aug 2004 ~ 7:15am -Ben WinFS had a major memory leak in the 4074 version :|
   
   I had the version for a while with the cool little alt-tab "thing"
   
   If you wanna check out more of longhorn check out msdn.microsoft.com and have a poke around.
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   27 Aug 2004 ~ 7:22am Thrax I believe IE also had a major memory leak in 4074. Thus the 200mb crap.
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   27 Aug 2004 ~ 11:31am entropy There's a tweak guide that can take care of most of it. WinFS wasn't the major cause (though it does use a lot of memory - it isn't a leak per say, at least i don't think so), it was that damned sidebar in the early versions. It's better now, but yeah it's still there.