Tuesday, during the annual Windows Hardware Engineering conference in Seattle, he (Jim Allchin, vice-president of Microsoft) proceeded to make a demo comparing work in Longhorn and Windows XP on two PCs. But as he asked the machine running Longhorn to open another application which is really demanding in memory as it contains numerous graphics - Quake, the famous shoot 'em up video game - the computer just froze. Allchin then estimated that the PC was slow and Microsoft hurried to claim that the demo worked fine during the tests. |
However, the other part of the demo concerning Windows Media Centre was more successful. The Media Centre has no competition in sight, and there is nothing more frustrating for me than Apple's indifference towards the concept...
(Thanks Michel)
