Will X3 be upgradable to 2004?

[Deam]

Just another question in my quest for a PPC.

[guinness]

It's anyone's guess, hard to say if MS does anything drastic enough to require better hardware (ie higher res screen, different form factors). Right now, most of the PPC designs are very cooke-cutter, but appearently MS has begun to loosen up a bit on design restrictions.

My gut feeling is no, PPC's need to at least move to VGA screens to stay with Palm/Sony.

[Grentz]

i would say yes, ms ppc is supposed to worklike the windows desktop line up, meaning you can keep on upgrading(just maybe the os will not work as efficiently as with new hardware

[cageyjames]

You assume there will be a WM 2004?

[Grentz]

In many rumors of new HPs and toshibas they have talked about WM 2004
but those are just rumors

[Deam]

Indeed, I do assume. Seeing that there was a change from 2002 to 2003, I assume that down the road there will be 2004, or some updated OS.

[cageyjames]

And that will run on today's PDA's? How about the assumption that WM has gone as far as it can go and the Smartphone OS will take over?

[Deam]

Could be.
However, I do not think it is so far fetched. There was a 2002 to 2003 upgrade during the life of current PDA's, was there not?

[Howard2k]

But there was no 2001. There was 2000, 2002, 2003.

I think I heard that the next release is tied tightly to the next new major desktop release. Can't remember it's codename but no doubt someone else can chime in with it.

2003 was a fairly decent behind the scenes upgrade.

[cageyjames]

Hell the XP replacement is now delayed to 2006... I doubt I'll have any computer that I own today running at that point.

[Deam]

Longhorn is what you are refering to.
I guess it is really irrelevant to consider upgrades...I just hope you can turn off that blue light.

[cageyjames]

Originally posted by Deam
I just hope you can turn off that blue light.

If the software doesn't allow you to do it, someone will make a program to do so.

[Howard2k]

Originally posted by Deam
Longhorn is what you are refering to.
I guess it is really irrelevant to consider upgrades...I just hope you can turn off that blue light.

Bingo! Longhorn it is, thanks. What happened to city names? Chicago, Cairo etc..

[cageyjames]

Originally posted by Howard2k
Bingo! Longhorn it is, thanks. What happened to city names? Chicago, Cairo etc..

Windows XP was code-named Whistler. The next Server code-name was Blackcomb. Both are ski areas in British Columbia. There is a saloon named Longhorn somewhere at the foot of the mountain.

http://www.longhornsaloon.ca/