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A Quick Peek at Longhorn

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the enemy-movements-reported-in-sector-seven dept.

Kaypro writes: "The Register has an interesting article with some minor details regarding Microsoft's next OS. P2P, filesystem plugins and some thoughts from Hans Reiser, of ReiserFS fame make for an interesting read."

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  1. P2P eh? by Second_Derivative · · Score: 5, Insightful

    So what kind of DRM-shackled kernel-integrated, msn.com centric peer to peer might that be? ;)

  2. Go read the Hans Reiser paper by avdi · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I have no opinion about this news; but I hope it prompts a few more people to make the effort to read through Hans Resiser's brilliant whitepaper. The first time I read that article I was blown away by the amount of thought the guy has put into the design of file systems. The first OS to thoroughly exploits his ideas will revolutionize computing.

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    1. Re:Go read the Hans Reiser paper by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 5, Insightful
      An excellent paper. I noticed one section that should be read and understood by anyone contemplating the trend towards "digital rights management" schemes:
      A common mistake by authors of information is to not realize that most of the total utility of their piece of information will be felt by those to whom its utility is either rather small, or for which its value is speculative to the person considering accessing it. The other common mistake is to not realize or care how much harm will be caused by others expending the time cost of accessing their information only to find it irrelevant. Since we all have limited lifespans in which to do our research, time spent accessing rather than reading information detracts from our ability to wander speculatively after information that might be useful.
      He is making the point in terms of namespace balkanization, but I think that is argument is also valid in a more general sense.
  3. Interesting what wasn't discussed by motherhead · · Score: 5, Insightful

    like all the work and money MS has been throwing into SDMI like digital copywrite detection and prevention.

    From what I understand MS sees an opportunity to vector the DMCA-like drum beating of the music and film industry with it's own "application as services" subscriber model.

    don't know when that shoe is going to drop, but when it does well... here is a quote for you: "Piracy is not a technological issue. It's a behavior issue," Apple CEO Steve Jobs

    All hail alternative operating systems

  4. Re:Thanks MS by SerpicoWasTaken · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I don't know. Don't people like Intel and Motorola have product strategy maps for their next two or three processor revisions. It doesn't seem like a "marketing" thing. Not to defend MS or anything, just saying I don't think this is something that is not done elsewhere in the business world. I guess I think it is kind of a cheap shot.