A Quick Peek at Longhorn

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."

Comments

Thanks MS

[NiftyNews]

"The final feature set for Longhorn - the codename for the successor to Windows XP - hasn't been nailed down yet, and the database core had been rumored for inclusion in Blackcomb, the next Windows after Longhorn. "

In a nutshell, they are currently deciding how exactly to make the new one obsolete...before they release the new one.

That's marketing at it's finest! :)

Re:Pluging FS

[dthable]

95 included a plugin fs...

but M$ forgot to release the API.

P2P?

[niola]

LOL, Windows XP is already peer-to-peer, though inadverently :)

Seriously though, they do need to make some drastic changes to the OS. Any OS that is going to be used by 90% of Americans needs to be more reliable. Nothing worse then having to be tech support because you are the only one in the family that can figure it out.

The move has antitrust implications: it potentially puts Microsoft at an advantage over Oracle and other competing SQL implementations every copy of Windows will effectively come with a light version of Microsoft SQL Server.

Ahh, now I see. I can just see the high-ups at Microsoft, "Hey, we can't make an RDBMS as good as Oracle or IBM's, so let's make our OS one, then when people run SQL Server on it it will be like 10 times faster, and SQL Server will capture the high-end database market."

I hope many of you submitted feedback for the Tunney act before yesterday's deadline or we will see a lot more anti-competitive behavior over the next year.

--Jon

Tougher migration

[tapiwa]

A db coupled filesystems will probably make it harder to share files across multiple platforms.

Tighter lockin into Microsoft prducts. Once they have you, you are hooked.

And if you think XP phones-home, wait till you get this baby. It should be a lot easier for Microsoft to control things on YOUR machine via db.

Want to access more than 50 files a day... upgrade to corporate.

I don't mean to go off on a rant.

[vulgarDPS]

This is rediculous. Microsoft keep bastardizing and screwing up good ideas for security on thier and other's products. P2P is a great idea, but the implementation they are trying to do WILL NOT WORK. It will be really easy to use and have no real security just like MS's version of kerberos.

They ripped all the security features out of kerberos to make it more "useable", and their justification for this, to quote Dave Thompson at the RSA conference is "If it's not easily useable then nobody uses it and hence it isn't secure" he was also quoted as saying something along the lines of how hard kerberos is on UNIX because of all that "command line stuff".

Another show of MS idiocy is the use of "raw sockets" in XP. This is a known security issue and the MS justification is that "raw sockets implementations are already present in Linux, VMS, Unix, Mac OS X, and even in previous versions of Windows." (quoted from: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default. asp?url=/TechNet/security/news/raw_sockets.asp.

While yes, it is true that unix will use raw sockets, it only uses them mitigated and ONLY ROOT CAN DO IT. WinXP allow raw socket use without mitigation or accnowledgment of access level BY DEFAULT. This isn't a security issue that MS released and then was notified about, this is something everyone with half a brain knows is a horrible idea.

But anyway, I'm all worked up now and I'm gonna go back to work creating a rediculously secure network around the windows machine my company has since MS obviously isn't going to make my job easy..... EVER, so theres no point in waiting for them to wise up when I can cover my network in OpenBSD firewalls.

MS Operating Systems

[LunchLady]

You should all just face the facts that Microsoft makes a superior product to linux. Better GUI, better application support, better security, better use of memory, better networking, better everything.
The sooner you people figure this out the sooner you will be able to learn a real operating system (Windows XP) and get a real job.