What's Redmond?

Shadow Skill · #1 2nd October 2004, 07:02 AM

I hear the term "Redmond" being thrown around alot in the zdnet talkbacks (RSS feeds are wonderful things.) what or whom exactly is Redmond?

#2 2nd October 2004, 07:32 AM

I like youe zeal for linux and angst towards MS. Your good for the community

Redmond is the city where MS is located. I believe its in Utah.

Shadow Skill · #3 2nd October 2004, 09:15 AM

Well I never thought of it that way, I just hate it when someone tries to sell me and other people a sack of crap and pass it off as a precious gemstone ala M$, More Annoying Crapware. (hardware wise.), Alienware, and of course a world leader we all know and love. In short I do not appreciate being sold a bill of goods and having the snake oil salesmen look me dead in my eye and tell me that I should pay for it.

LordMorgul · #4 2nd October 2004, 10:24 AM

Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond, WA 98052-6399
USA

#5 2nd October 2004, 10:43 AM

Ah yes, Washington. I guess thats SCO in Utah.

LordMorgul · #6 2nd October 2004, 10:51 AM

It is easy to confuse the 'axes' of evil.

Shadow Skill · #7 2nd October 2004, 11:09 PM

Bwahahahaha now Gates is swearing he can fix the adware, spyware and virus thing by releasing another application instead of gearing Longhorn towards real security.....Check out the article:

http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009-5393208.html

Damn it Bill all you need to do for Longhorn (I understnad that he [Bill] can't base it on a Unix core for Longhorn if he wants to put it out before 08, so I can let that go for now.) is use run as and I might think about buying it when I purchase a new machine. Start fixing the security holes so that by Longhorn reloaded you can easily and quickly make the transition to a real core. (Unix/linux) It really could not be that difficult to use such a core if the company has so many resources at your disposal, could it?

DarkMasterMatt · #8 3rd October 2004, 02:21 AM

They ought to just use FreeBSD as the "core" of Windows sorta like Mac OS X. DOS is horribly outdated.

crackers · #9 3rd October 2004, 02:34 AM

Win2000/XP is based on the NT kernel, which was based on VMS. Presumably the Wronghorn kernel will be based on that as well.

Let's hear it for user services running on Ring 0! GAK!

Jman · #10 3rd October 2004, 02:38 AM

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Originally Posted by DarkMasterMatt

DOS is horribly outdated.

Check your facts. XP is based of of 2000, which does not use DOS. There only is an emulation mode.

Apparently even the Big G himself, Mr. Bill, has malware on his home PC.

Redmond better get busy!

#11 3rd October 2004, 02:38 AM

They should, but they couldn't just abandon their creation. That would be an admitsion of defeat, and it would me they are using open source. Just about every program and driver would have to be rebuilt, and there wouldn't be any reason to use windows instead of any other Free Open Source OS such as the hugely popular linux.

DarkMasterMatt · #12 3rd October 2004, 03:22 AM

Ah. I thought it was still based on DOS. My bad.

Prometheus · #13 3rd October 2004, 03:46 AM

i believe 98 was the last windows version to be based off dos, well, maybe Milennium edition, but that was basically win 98 3rd edition.

CrystalCowboy · #14 3rd October 2004, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Shadow Skill

I hear the term "Redmond" being thrown around alot in the zdnet talkbacks (RSS feeds are wonderful things.) what or whom exactly is Redmond?

It means there must be a lot of fans of the Sim Redmond Band around.

Shadow Skill · #15 4th October 2004, 02:19 AM

Well if a company like Microsoft got behind a *nix core the OS would truly be a force to be reckoned with. And so what if you have to rebuild the drivers windows would STILL be able to provide true ease of use and productivity. It's not as if they would HAVE to use x11 for example they could always make their own. It would however mean that compatibility with other *nix systems for hardware would be all but assured.