The Ideas Behind Longhorn

An anonymous reader writes: "Fortune magazine is carrying an interesting article on the new and improved Bill Gates, as well as some details on Longhorn: 'Because Gates' geeks are completely overhauling the operating system, they'll also have to redesign most of the company's other software products and services to take full advantage, including the MSN online service, its server applications, and especially Microsoft Office, the productivity suite that accounts for nearly a third of the company's sales and profits. If this enormous undertaking succeeds, it will make computers more personal than ever. Equipped with Longhorn, your PC will keep track of how you work, whom you talk to, what sites you look at, how you make documents and whom you share them with, which data on the network are yours--making all those things easier.'"

Comments

Re:amazing

[tim_uk]

I've been looking at tieing up nural nets/ heristics and systems components for 4 to 5 years on-and-off.

And in all that time you never learned to spell properly?

Re:This has to be an all-time record....

[telstar]

"This has to be an all-time record...
Pre-announcing a product and starting the hype five years before it's expected to be released..."

• Apparently you haven't been following the Duke Nukem saga.

Microsoft re-branding "Windows"

[D0wnsp0ut]

Starting with the "Longhorn" release, Microsoft will unveil a new naming scheme to enhance the "Windows" brand name. No longer will versions numbers or years be tacked onto the Windows name, instead, Microsoft is shifting towards a more descriptive naming convention.

When Longhorn finally hits the shelves, it will come in 3 flavors, a 'personal' edition for home users, a 'corporate' edition for businesses and a government release.

• "Orwell Personal" for home use
• "Big Brother" for corporate use
• "The Ministry of Truth" for government use

Pricing has not been set but early speculation would indicate that licensing fees will be rolled into federal taxes to ensure everyone is paying for their license and not using a pirated copy.

Re:Privacy

[JUSTONEMORELATTE]

You say that like it's a bad thing! Really, if my computer could figure out that X10 popunders don't work on me, that I neither need larger breasts or a longer penis, and that I don't need to MAKE MONEY FAST, that might be worth something!

Re:Wow - where do I sign up.

[WebMasterJoe]

MSNBC really will be a high class newsfeed - nothing but two alternating commercials:

The leader is good,
The leader is great,
We surrender our will,
As of this date!

And,

na na na na na na na na Leader!