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Windows 'Longhorn' Kicks Off (On Paper)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the feature-envy-can-be-healthy dept.

gdeciantis writes: "NeoWin.net posted an article which outlines some of the new features that are currently planned for the the next version of Windows (codenamed Longhorn). With new features like seamless content transfer across devices, it looks like Longhorn will not just be Windows XP SE."

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  1. Re:FYI: Windows "Longhorn" Platform Goals by Waffle+Iron · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Us open-source folks had better give up now - there's no way we can catch up with advances like this...

    That's very funny. But that doesn't alter the fact that since the first soft-powered boxes came out a decade ago, I have never seen any OS, open source or closed, that consistently does the right thing on all machines by default when I push the button. Nor have I seen one that has power control settings that are both understandable and functional on all machines.

    I don't think that the problem is as simple as you imply; otherwise somebody would have fixed this mess by now.